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What type of geologic activity is associated with folding?
Cooking
Washing Towels and Clothes
Earthquakes
Mountain Building
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What are some fossil used for?
To show what future animals will look like
There is no use for them.
Dating rock layers to help learn Earth's history
To understand how caves form
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What type of landform is caused by geochemical reactions?
Caves
Valleys
Mountains
Hills
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Which process creates metamorphic rock?
physical weathering
melting and cooling
cementation and compaction
heat and pressure
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A geologic process that develops slowly but has a sudden catastrophic event.
Weathering & Erosion
Volcanic Eruption
Slump
Cave Formation
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Physical weathering example is
Frost wedging
Oxidation
Solution
Carbonation
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Example of a large-scale geoscience process
The formation of a cavern
A landslide
Tectonic Plate movement
The wearing down of a mountain range
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What transforms rocks over millions of years?
Weathering and Erosion
Heat and pressure
Humans
Meteors
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Which process creates igneous rock?
heat and pressur
cementation and compaction
physical weathering
melting and cooling
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A mass of earth or rock sliding down a mountain.
Scale
Landslide
Plate Tectonics
Earthquake
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According to the data table, which event takes the longest in terms of time scale?
Geochemical Reactions
Landslides
Earthquakes
Delta Formation
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____________ formed 260 million years ago from chemical weathering.
Fossilization
Rickwood Caverns
The Grand Canyon
Wetumpka Crater
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What process changes the shape, size and or volume of Earth's crust?
crystallization
carbon cycle
meteor impact
deformation
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Which of the following is NOT a small-scale geoscience process?
Weathering & Erosion
Plate Movement
Geochemical Processes
Landslide
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Which geoscience process is most likely to represent the smallest scale of space & time?
Breakdown of rock into sediments
Uplift of mountain ranges
Formation of a canyon
A landslide on a mountain
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A change to Earth's surface cause by a gradual process that is interrupted by a rapid event.
The formation of a delta at the mouth of a river.
The creation of sediments by breaking down rocks.
A flooding of wetlands caused by a hurricane's storm surge.
An earthquake resulting from tectonic plate movement.
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Any process that happens on Earth such as weathering, erosion, or plate tectonics.
Geoscience Process
Interactions
Large-Scale Geoscience Processes
Global
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Water freezing and expanding in a rock is an example of
Erosion
Cave formation
Chemical Weathering
Mechanical Weathering
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Flow of energy & cycling of matter measured in years and involves small areas.
Gradual with catastrophic events
Large-Scale Geoscience Processes
Small-Scale Geoscience Processes
Global
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What type of geologic activity is associated with faulting?
Earthquakes
Mountain Building
Sea floor spreading
Sedimentary Layering
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Movement of the Earth's crust, resulting in a violent shaking of the ground.
Plate Tectonics
Landslide
Earthquake
Volcanic Eruption
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Three types of rock are
Sedimentary, Limestone, Granite
Sedimentary, Hard, Soft
Sedimentary, Igneous, Metamorphic
Sedimentary, Basalt, Obsidian
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Which of the following could be caused by moving ice but NOT by moving water or wind?
Smoothing & rounding rocks of different sizes
Carving out a canyon several kilometers long
Transporting large boulders over many kilometers.
Movement of sediments down a mountainside
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Which process creates sedementary rock?
cementation and compaction
physical weathering
melting and cooling
heat and pressure
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Flow of energy & cycling of matter measured over a long period of time & involves large areas.
Global
Gradual with catastrophic event
Large-Scale Geoscience Processes
Small-Scale Geoscience Processes
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A geologic process on Earth that occurs relatively quickly & affects a relatively small area.
Plate Movement
Landslide
Seafloor Spreading
Mountain Building
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When organic and inorganic material stacks up over time
Rock pile
Canyon building
Sedimentary layering
Mountain building
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Which of the following is NOT a "gradual with catastrophic event" geoscience process?
Meteor Strikes
Volcanic Eruptions
Earthquakes
Geochemical Processes
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What is the evidence of a meteor strike within rock strata?
There is a hole in the rock sample.
It is a different color.
All the rock is melted together.
A layer of high concentration of iridium
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Which of the following is NOT a large-scale geoscience process?
Plate Movement
Erosion
Mountain Building
Ocean Formation
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An igneous intrusion occurs when
an igneous sibling intrudes on you in your room
Magma has cooled and solidified in rock layers
An earthquake occurs
Magma has cooled and solidified in a cave
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The law of superposition states that in rock layers
the position doesn't matter
Oldest layer on bottom and youngest layer on top
Youngest layer on bottom and oldest layer on top
Oldest layer on top and the youngest on bottom
