Earth Science Test

What human intervention is shown below?

What are the main agents of erosion?

Levees have been built along much of the Mississippi River. What is the purpose of a levee?

What is a possible effect of earthquake that occur on the ocean floor?

An example of a surface feature caused by constructive process is a _____.

A levee is a human-made feature that is designed to reduce the damage done by

An example of a destructive force is ______

Wegner found a theory on plate tectonics that said earth was once a super continent called ___

Beach reclamation projects on Georgia's coastal island are designed to reverse damage done by:

How does a dam prevent flooding?

A long wall along the banks of a river is called a ______.

Building flat, stair-step like fields to grow crops along a hillside is called

When beaches are eroded by hurricanes-what change could be made to help minimize the erosion?

What human intervention is shown below?

One way to help restore eroded beaches is to dump sand onto the eroded beach. This is called?

During a _____, water flows onto lands that normally are dry.

When two tectonic plates move away from each other, the boundary is a ______

What is weathering?

Which word names a force that pulls sediments downhill?

Two tectonic plates sliding past each other and cause an earthquake. This is a _____.