Earth Science Exam 2 Review

Question 1

Which factors would contribute to increased global temperatures?

Accepted Answer

Both of those

Question 2

Which is not a life stage of volcanoes?

Accepted Answer

reserved

Question 3

Which factor would increase water erosion?

Accepted Answer

Increase in gradient.

Question 4

Which method has helped determine global C02 levels over the past 400,000 years?

Accepted Answer

Study of ice cores

Question 5

Which of these is a form of mass wasting?

Accepted Answer

slump

Question 6

How much of the original amount of radioactive material will be left after 2 half lives?

Accepted Answer

25%

Question 7

Where does a stream experience the greatest amount of erosion?

Accepted Answer

on the outside bank of a meander

Question 8

For which type of rock can absolute age be determined?

Accepted Answer

igneous rock

Question 9

Which is not a step to creating a sedimentary rock

Accepted Answer

folding

Question 10

What is an isotope?

Accepted Answer

atoms of the same element with different number of neutrons

Question 11

Which of the following is not a land form created by glacial deposition?

Accepted Answer

U-shaped valley

Question 12

Which of these can cause the loss of unprotected topsoil?

Accepted Answer

erosion by wind or water

Question 13

Which is the best indicator that glaciers were once present in an area?

Accepted Answer

U-shaped valley

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT a method of determining relative age?

Accepted Answer

Radiometric dating

Question 15

Which of these can help identify a younger river?

Accepted Answer

A young river has a straighter course.

Question 16

What do you call the boundary where new rock layers meet much older folded rock layers.

Accepted Answer

unconformity

Question 17

What is something everyone can do to prevent loss of topsoil to wind or water erosion?

Accepted Answer

physically cover exposed soil

Question 18

Why do volcanoes form primarily near plate boundaries?

Accepted Answer

Plate boundaries have many crust fractures due to stress

Question 19

Which type of volcano is most likely to form away from plate boundaries?

Accepted Answer

hot spot volcano

Question 20

Which agent of erosion is most responsible for shaping Earth's topography?

Accepted Answer

water

Question 21

When dissolved minerals crystallize and bind sediment together to help form a sedimentary rock

Accepted Answer

cementation

Question 22

An example of erosion being constructive.

Accepted Answer

An oxbow lake.

Question 23

An example of mechanical weathering.

Accepted Answer

A groundhog burrow.

Question 24

Which of the following could have its absolute age determined by radiometric dating?

Accepted Answer

Intrusion

Question 25

What kind of weathering changes the chemical composition of rock?

Accepted Answer

chemical weathering

Question 26

Removal of surface materials via wind.

Accepted Answer

deflation

Question 27

How is gradient indicated on topographic maps?

Accepted Answer

by the spacing of contour lines

Question 28

Which of these can be attributed to James Hutton?

Accepted Answer

Uniformitarianism

Question 29

Which type of glacier is responsible for the deposition of erratics?

Accepted Answer

continental glacier

Question 30

When can you use the Law of Superposition as a way to determine relative age?

Accepted Answer

In horizontal sedimentary rock layers.

Earth Science Exam 2 Review

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Earth Science Exam 2 Review

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