Geology Unit

Question 1

What geological event occurs at a convergent boundary?

Accepted Answer

Subduction

Question 2

How is metamorphic rock made?

Accepted Answer

Heat and Pressure

Question 3

What materials must be present for soil to form?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 4

Which agent of Erosion has the greatest impact or causes the most change to the surface?

Accepted Answer

Moving Water

Question 5

Which of these are an agent of Erosion?

Accepted Answer

All

Question 6

What type of rock is made from cooling lava, has bubbles or a smooth shiny surface?

Accepted Answer

Igneous

Question 7

Which layer of the earth is the outer most, thinnest layer made of mostly rock?

Accepted Answer

Crust

Question 8

What type of rock is formed by weathering and erosion and can contain fossils or pebbles?

Accepted Answer

Sedimentary

Question 9

Which are a characteristic of Metamorphic Rock?

Accepted Answer

Ribbon like layers

Question 10

What is the term for the composition of each layer of soil?

Accepted Answer

Soil Profile

Question 11

Primary waves cause compression and rarefaction. What type of wave are primary waves?

Accepted Answer

Longitudinal

Question 12

What do we call pieces of lithosphere that move on the mantle moving earth's crust?

Accepted Answer

Tectonic Plates

Question 13

What is the difference between Geological Events and Features?

Accepted Answer

Features form on the surface

Question 14

Plate Boundary where two tectonic plates move toward each other and collide.

Accepted Answer

Convergent Boundary

Question 15

Which horizon is called subsoil and is where leaching occurs?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 16

What geological event occurs at a transform boundary?

Accepted Answer

Earthquakes

Question 17

What are the 3 types or categories of rock?

Accepted Answer

Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic

Question 18

What is the name of Alfred Wegner's theory of seperating continents by moving tectonic plates?

Accepted Answer

Continental Drift

Question 19

Which process of the rock cycle is represented by the pink arrow?

Accepted Answer

Heat and Pressure

Question 20

What determines what type of soil forms?

Accepted Answer

Weathered Parent Rock

Question 21

What geologic event occurs at a divergent boundary?

Accepted Answer

Sea Floor Spreading

Question 22

What process recycles and changes rock from one form to another?

Accepted Answer

Rock Cycle

Question 23

Which process in the rock cycle is represented by the green arrow?

Accepted Answer

Erosion

Question 24

How can humans be stewards of the lithosphere and its resources?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 25

Which Horizon is the most fertile and is called topsoil?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 26

Which layer of the earth is extremely hot but is a solid ball of iron and nickel?

Accepted Answer

Inner Core

Question 27

What is the term for the layers of soil?

Accepted Answer

Horizon

Question 28

What is the largest component of soil?

Accepted Answer

Weathered Parent Rock

Question 29

What geologic feature forms at a Convergent Boundary?

Accepted Answer

Mountain Ranges

Question 30

Plate Boundaries where two tectonic plates move away from each other.

Accepted Answer

Divergent Boundary

Geology Unit

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Geology Unit

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