GEOG 115 Test 2 Review

The type of fault associated with compression stress.

Volcanic island arcs are associated with:

Volumetrically what is the largest Earth layer?

The northern hemisphere is also known as the "land" hemisphere.

What type of tectonic activity is used to determine the direction and rate of plate movement?

When groundwater is extracted a greater rate than it is replenished:

The type of fault where the hanging wall moves downward relative to the foot wall.

The lithosphere is composed of crust and the upper plastic/ductile part of the mantle.

The type of plate boundary where shallow to deep earthquakes are found.

At what location is a trench NOT formed?

Groundwater is the largest potential source of non-frozen freshwater on Earth.

The outer core is liquid.

The oldest part of a continent (not exposed at the surface).

The savings account for a water budget is related to inputs and outputs from:

Conduction was the mechanism that Alfred Wegener was missing to explain his theory of Continental Drift

The type of stress that causes stretching.

Relief

The point at which an earthquake starts.

Rift valleys are associated with continental-continental divergence.

Mean sea level varies due to:

When the Earth is at its furthest point from the Sun during its orbit, global temperatures are cooler.

The phrase that summarizes Uniformitarianism: "The past is the key to the present"

What type of evidence did Wegener NOT use to support his theory of Continental Drift?

In a location such as Phoenix, Arizona the water budget would be dominated by a water surplus.

The type of scale used to measure the relative impacts to humans of an earthquake

The largest pool (storage) of freshwater on Earth is groundwater.

Increasing intensity of precipitation events is an example of physical evidence used to indicate climate change.

The type of fold where the beds dip downwards.

The type of boundary where plates are moving laterally (horizontally) past each other.

What is the name of the supercontinent proposed by Wegener?

Africa would be an example of:

Measurement of current climatic changes is one of the key elements of climate change science.