Earth Science Review

The picture displays the three types of faults, hanging walls, and foot walls. What is F?

Which term should replace the question mark?

Why are the physical and chemical characteristics of soil important to understand?

According to most scientists, what is the cause of Earth's magnetic field?

Indiana once was considered a marine environment. How could this be?

How do scientists use fossils to determine the relative ages of rock layers?

What just happened?

The picture displays the three types of faults, hanging walls, and foot walls. What is G?

Which of the following are produced at Type 2 convergent plate boundaries?

The picture displays the three types of faults, hanging walls, and foot walls. What is B?

Why is iron a contributing factor as to why Earth has a magnetic field?

What is the major process of surface rock formation on volcanoes?

The picture displays the three types of faults, hanging walls, and foot walls. What is A?

What is one feature of a divergent plate boundary?

Waves that travel through solids, liquids, and gases are:

What are these students modeling?

A scratch test is used to test for what?

The picture displays the three types of faults, hanging walls, and foot walls. What is C?

A volcano that is no longer erupting but is likely to erupt again in the future is ...

Which unit of geologic time is the LONGEST?

The youngest rocks in the ocean floor are located at...

Why is it important for burrowing to take place in soil?

Subduction zones...

The picture displays the three types of faults, hanging walls, and foot walls. What is D?

You learn what, when you compare a fern fossil to a cactus plant that grows in the same area? 

The picture displays the three types of faults, hanging walls, and foot walls. What is E?

This shows important events in Earth's geologic history. What can you infer from this table?

What types of waves are especially damaging to buildings?

Stress that pulls and stretches rock is called