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Weathering
Erosion
Miscellaneous
Plate Tectonics
Vocabulary
100
What is weathering? a. the breaking apart of rocks into sediment b. the movement of sediment from one place together c. dropping sediment in a new location
What is a. the breaking apart of rocks into sediment?
100
Which area faces the most problems with erosion? a. A farm with lots of bare plowed fields b. A flat land with lots of trees c. A hillside with plants and flowers d. All areas face the same amount of erosion
What is a. A farm with lots of bare plowed fields
100
What is the land called that gets covered by water during a flood?
What is a flood plain?
100
Which faults can cause mountains to form? A. Lateral B. Transverse C. Normal D. Reverse
What is D. Reverse?
100
This instrument measures an earthquake. A. Seismograph B. Beaufort Wind Scale C. Fugita Scale
What is A. Seismograph?
200
Which of these is an example of weathering? a. Sand being blown away by rocks. b. Rocks being broken apart by freezing or thawing water c. Soil being carried downstream by the river
What is b. Rocks being broken apart by freezing or thawing water?
200
Water erosion can form which of these landforms? A. mountain B. volcano C. canyon D. glacier
What is C. canyon?
200
Which landform creates the islands of Hawaii?
What is volcanoes?
200
Which faults come together? A. Divergent B. Convergent C. Lateral D. Normal
What is B. Convergent?
200
What is the best way to determine the elevation of the land when you go hiking?
What is a topographic map?
300
Name an effect that weathering has on mountains.
What is the mountains become more rounded over time?
300
Which of these is NOT a form of mass movement? A. Landslide B. Creep C. Weathering D. Mudslide
What is C. weathering?
300
Our landform projects are an example of a _______________.
What is a model?
300
What is a fault? A. A place where two plates meet B. the part of the earth we live on C. large pieces of the earth's crust
What is A. a place where two plates meet?
300
This is a picture taken from an airplane?
What is an aerial photograph?
400
How can a plant weather a rock?
What is it can grow in the cracks of rocks and break it apart?
400
Which type of weather will cause the most erosion? A. Sun B. Snow C. Wind D. Rain
What is D. Rain?
400
Which process forms a floodplain?
What is deposition?
400
Which fault can cause an earthquake? A. Divergent B. Convergent C. Lateral D. Reverse
What is C. Lateral?
400
Fill in the blank. A _____________________ is a deep valley with steep sides formed by glaciers or flowing water.
What is a canyon?
500
This happens when sand is blown against rocks and slowly breaks apart the rock.
What is abrasion?
500
Erosion can cause a bend in a river. What is the bend called? A. Lateral B. Mouth C. Curve D. Meander
What is D. Meander?
500
Which process forms a delta?
What is deposition?
500
Name the man who came up with the continental drift theory.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
500
A _________________________ is a representation of an object that is very large or a process that occurs over a long period of time.
What is a model?