The inner core of the Earth is this state of matter.
What is solid?
100
When plates move apart, it is because this pulling force is acting on the plates.
-Volcanoes, rifts, tension, or faults
What is tension?
100
Tremendous pushing forces cause a squeezing of rock layers and form these type of mountains.
-folded, fault-block, upwarped, volcanic
What are folded mountains?
100
Potholes often form in winter, just like a lot of rock breaks off during winter due to this.
-abrasion, runoff, iron oxide, ice wedging
What is ice wedging?
100
Carbon dioxide reacts with water to form this.
-tannic acid, iron oxide, carbonic acid, or sodium carbonate.
What is carbonic acid?
200
This is the largest layer of the Earth's interior.
What is the mantle?
200
A mid-ocean ridge forms when ocean plates do this movement.
-slide past, separate, or collide
What is separate?
200
Along with weathering, this acts on mountains to change their size, height, or surface.
What is erosion?
200
Mechanical weathering breaks apart rock, but doesn't change the type of rock. This is a cause of mechanical weathering.
-animals, carbon dioxide, tannin, oxygen
What are animals?
200
If a rock weathers quickly, then soils deep in the group will develop at this speed.
What is a rapidly?
300
Just like a loaf of bread, the outer layer of the Earth is called this.
What is crust?
300
Plates that slide past each other cause this natural disaster.
What are earthquakes?
300
When forces inside the Earth push up the crust, these type of mountains are formed.
- folded, fault-block, upwarped, or volcanic
What are upwarped mountains?
300
Plants can cause this type of weathering.
-physical, chemical, mechanical, or both chemical and mechanical
What is both mechanical and chemical?
300
There are 4 agents of erosion. Which of the following is not an agent of erosion?
-ice, water, sunlight, or gravity
What is sunlight?
400
This is what you call mountains made of huge rocks separate from other rocks by faults are called this type of mountains.
-folded, fault-block, up-warped, volcanic
What are fault-block mountains?
400
When a plate at a mid-ocean ridge responds to gravity by sliding down a slope it is called this.
-ridge-push, slab-push, slab-pull, ridge-pull
What is ridge push?
400
The volume of ice is ________ the volume of an equal amount of water.
-greater than, less than, equal to, or they are unrelated
(Hint: think about the amount of space ice takes up compared to water)
What is greater than?
400
One of these is a cause of chemical weathering.
-freezing and thawing, plant roots, acids and oxygen, or streams and glaciers
What is acids and oxygen?
400
This agent of erosion causes mass movement.
What is gravity?
500
A build-up of this forms volcanic mountains.
What is lava?
500
All of the following are forces that change landforms EXCEPT:
a. wind b. moving water c. glaciers c. physical features
What is physical features?
500
This is not a factor in soil formation.
-force, time, climate, topography
What is force?
500
There are a lot of factors involved in chemical weathering. Which one of the following is NOT involved.
-oxygen, tannic acid, carbon dioxide, or ice.
What is ice?
500
Which of the following is not an agent that carries erosion products?
-wind, plants, glaciers, water