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Essays
100
Complete the analogy....Boats are to water as continents are to ______________?
What are plates?
100
All soil began as _________.
What is rock?
100
A river system consists of ________.
What is a main river and all its tributaries?
100
When different layers of rock contain similar fossils, you can infer that the rocks were formed _________.
What is at the same time?
100
Why would detecting a bulge in a volcano be a sign of a coming eruption? You may use your book as a resource.
What is a bulge indicates the magma was building up inside the volcano and pushing up the slope. This is a isgn that the volcano may erupt soon.
200
The earth's crust contains what two parts?
What are continents and ocean floor?
200
The middle part of a soil profile is called the ___________.
What is the subsoil?
200
What makes a glacier move down a mountain?
What is gravity?
200
Sedimentary rocks from in __________.
What is water?
200
Use pages C74-C75 in your book to listhe order in which the following mountian ranges were formed: the Alps, the Rocky Mountains, the Applachians, and the Himalayas.
What is the Appalachians fromed first, the rocky Mountains second, and the Alps and Himalayas at about the same time.
300
Most earthquakes occur here___________.
What is near plate boundaries?
300
Rock is to weathering as animal is to plant, life, or decaying.
What is decaying?
300
The size of an ocean wave depends on ________.
What is how long and how strongly the wind blows?
300
Sand is to sandstone as shells are to shale, hard, limestone.
What is limestone?
400
Does hot magma, or melted rock, rise to Earth's surface because it finds small tunnels to the surface or because it is lighter than solid rock?
What is it is lighter than solid rock.
400
Topsoil is to humus as subsoil is to minerals, sand, or water.
What is minerals?
400
Two features produced by groundwater are _________.
What is geysers and caves?
400
Archaeopteryx is to land as trilobite is to __________.
What is sea?
500
Mt. Vesuvius is the site of a famous ___________.
What is volcanic eruption?
500
Which layer of soil is richest in nutrients and why?
What is topsoil because it contains humus.
500
Waves are to beach as glaciers are to ice, moraine, or cold.
What is moraine?
500
The time peried when the Alps and the Himalaya Mountain rangers were formed.
What is Cenozoic Era?
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