Geology year end review

Which farming technique would reduce the erosion for farmers?

Name the layers of the earth from the most dense to the least dense.

Scientists have found a chain of mountains on the sea floor.  What is this?

How can mountains form?

Which processes are required in the formation of a sand dune?

Which layer of the earth is the thickest?

In a soil sample, fossils were found in successive layers.  which fossil is the oldest?

What could be caused from two plates moving away from each other?

Which could be caused at a transform boundary?

Which feature is the continental shelf?

The nutritious ingredient in soil that is made of dead plants and animal remains is called

A fossil of a fish was found in the desert of South America.  What could explain this?

A scientist has a rock made of shells from the ocean floor. What kind of rock is it?

A geologist noticed an increase in the amount of sediment in a river nearby. Why?

A student is studying the layers of the earth.  Which layer is more dense?

When lava cools quickly outside earth's crust, what rock type is forming?

Which of the following could occur with 2 lithospheric plates colliding?

Which of the following could cause the crack in a sidewalk to become larger?

Which of these descries the MOST LIKELY effect of removing plants from a construction site?

How could this feature (a Butte) be formed?

Which BEST describes how a igneous rock forms?

How could limestone, a sedimentary rock, become a metamorphic rock?

Which rock type would form from the cementation of small sediments?

Which is NOT caused by plate movement?

Which rock type has blurred particles and is shiny?

Granite and Basalt are both _________ rocks made by the cooling of magma.