Earth Test 1

Question 1

What kind of plate boundary caused Pangea to separate?

Accepted Answer

Diverging

Question 2

What natural disaster would likely to carry away plants/animals and bury habitats under soil?

Accepted Answer

landslide

Question 3

What term means to break down material?

Accepted Answer

weathering

Question 4

In the Earth's Mantle, what kind of currents cause Earth's plates to move?

Accepted Answer

convection currents

Question 5

Deposition does what to material?

Accepted Answer

drops it off

Question 6

Abrasion means to

Accepted Answer

The grinding away of rock by other rock particles carried

Question 7

That layer of Earth is directly beneath the crust?

Accepted Answer

Mantle

Question 8

Transform plate boundaries are when two plates

Accepted Answer

slide past each other

Question 9

What landform is known for crustal plates moving past each other?

Accepted Answer

San Andreas Fault

Question 10

Divergent plates move cause which of the following?

Accepted Answer

rifts

Question 11

Erosion occurs when water acts the following way?

Accepted Answer

fastest

Question 12

What is chemical weathering when gases burn fossil fuels that dissolve into water of clouds

Accepted Answer

acid rain

Question 13

Convergent plates move _____ from each other. This causes _____ to form.

Accepted Answer

towards, mountain ranges

Question 14

If old mountains are worn down over millions of years, what cause them to still exist?

Accepted Answer

created through tectonic and volcanic activity.

Question 15

Earthquakes occur during what plate boundaries

Accepted Answer

all boundaries

Question 16

What forms when a river goes to an ocean?

Accepted Answer

Delta

Question 17

Volcanic eruptions are a constructive force

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Wind will erode a wall away the fastest when the speed of the wind is the

Accepted Answer

fastest

Question 19

Soil comes from weathered

Accepted Answer

rocks

Question 20

Plate tectonics mean

Accepted Answer

Explanation states that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move

Questions 20