2.1.1: State Earth's layers in order of bottom to top

Inner core, outer core, mantle, lithosphere, crust

2.3.6: What is a characteristic of La Niña?

Allows water from the Humboldt Current to upwell

2.2.4: What is the definition of sedimentation?

The sediments are deposited somewhere

2.3.2: When does a spring tide occur according to the moon?

Full and aligned with the earth and sun

2.2.2: What is Organic Weathering?

When a living creature breaks down rock or coral skeletons

2.1.2: Which of the following is NOT evidence of the Theory of Plate Tectonics?

The same organisms on different continents

2.3.6: Why do fishing industries suffer during the El Niño Cycle?

Upwelling decreases, and fish lose nutrients as the amount of prey reduce

2.1.6: Why can't the minerals that leave hydrothermal vents combine with the water?

The minerals are too hot while the water is too cold

2.3.1: Which of these statements is false?

The higher the air pressure, the larger the tidal range

2.2.1: What is the difference between weathering and erosion?

Weathering breaks down sediment, erosion moves sediment

2.1.3: Where does a plate subduct?

convergent: oceanic to continental plate

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AICE Marine Science: Unit 2 Review

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A review of AICE Marine Science's chapter 2: Earth Processes.

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2.1.1: State Earth's layers in order of bottom to top
Asthenosphere, inner core, outer core, lithosphere, crust
Crust, lithosphere, asthenosphere, core
Inner core, outer core, mantle, lithosphere, crust
Outer core, inner core, mantle, asthenosphere, crust
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2.1.2: Where do convection currents occur?
The mantle
The crust
The outer core (solid)
The inner core (liquid)
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2.2.8: What is NOT a characteristic of deltas?
all of the above
Is shaped by erosion
Is named after a greek letter
Sediment builds up in a triangle pattern
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2.3.6: What is a characteristic of La Niña?
Decreases productivity and increases hurricane activity in Atlantic Basin
Comes before El Niño
Allows water from the Humboldt Current to upwell
None of the above
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2.3.6: Where do El Niño conditions make the climate dry and drought-like?
Australia
The East Pacific Ocean
South America (Peru)
Africa
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2.2.4: What is the definition of sedimentation?
The sediments are broken off from rocks
The sediments are being moved to a new location
The sediments are being eroded
The sediments are deposited somewhere
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2.3.2: When does a spring tide occur according to the moon?
Full and at a 90-degree angle to the earth and sun
Full and aligned with the earth and sun
1st and aligned with the earth and the sun
New and at a 90-degree angle to the earth and sun
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2.2.2: What is Organic Weathering?
When gravity makes rock fall away
When water breaks down rock into sediment
When acidic water breaks down coral skeletons
When a living creature breaks down rock or coral skeletons
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2.1.2: Which of the following is NOT evidence of the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
Rock strata being the same on different contients
The same organisms on different continents
Paleomagnetic striping
Same fossils on different continents
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2.3.6: Why do fishing industries suffer during the El Niño Cycle?
Upwelling increases, adding too many nutrients, causing eutrophication
The fishermen get lazy
The fish get sick
Upwelling decreases, and fish lose nutrients as the amount of prey reduce
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2.1.4: At which plate boundary can you find Abyssal Plains?
Divergent
Convergent
Subduct
Transform
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2.3.5: Upwelling occurs in the global ocean conveyor belt where?
The coast of Australia
The coast of Antarctica
The coast of Africa
The coast of the Americas
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2.1.5: What minerals build up chimneys in hydrothermal vents?
Potassium and sulfate
Calcium, sulfate, sodium, magnesium
Sodium, potassium, magnesium
Calcium, sulfate, magnesium
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2.1.4: The San Andreas fault is a result of what kind of plate boundary?
Convergent boundaries destroying existing crust
Transform boundaries
Divergent boundaries creating more crust
Two plates subducting
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2.1.2: What is the material needed to make paleomagnetic striping polar?
magnenite
magnezite
magnemite
magnetite
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2.2.3: Which of the following is NOT a type of erosion
Gravity
Ice
Plants
Wind
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2.1.6: Why can't the minerals that leave hydrothermal vents combine with the water?
The minerals are too hot while the water is too cold
The minerals aren't soluable
The water is too hot
The minerals, because of their chemical makeup, can't mix with the water
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2.2.5: Which particle is the easiest to erode?
gravel
silt
coarse sand
fine sand
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2.2.8: A muddy shore is characterised by
increased water movement
infauna
high oxygen concentration
All of the above
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2.3.1: Which of these statements is false?
The higher the air pressure, the larger the tidal range
The tidal range increases during a spring tide
As the coast narrows, the tidal range increases
The lower the wind speed, the smaller the tidal range
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2.3.1: What are the effects of a storm surge?
all of the above
Water swells
Flooding due to strong winds
Low air pressure
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2.2.1: What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
Erosion breaks down sediment, while weathering moves sediment
Erosion happens on land, Weathering happens in water
A few letters
Weathering breaks down sediment, erosion moves sediment
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2.1.3: Where does a plate subduct?
convergent: oceanic to continental plate
divergent: continental to continental plate
transform: oceanic to oceanic plate
divergent: oceanic to continental plate
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2.2.6: How are littoral zones categorised?
The shape of the shore
The organisms that live there
All of the above
The substrate of the shore
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2.3.4: The Coriolis Effect creates
clockwise winds
none of the above
gyres
counterclockwise winds

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