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Earth Science Midterm Review RHLS
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Ch.3-6
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P waves can travel through
Solids but not liquids
Both liquids and solids
Neither solid or liquid
Liquids but not solids
2
layers of soil
texuture
sediment
humus
horizons
3
Where would you find the youngest rock on the crust?
Subduction Zones
Abyssal Plains
Mid-Ocean Ridges
Mountain Tops
4
Why did scientists argue against Wegener's continental drift hypothesis?
Wegener could not explain how the Egyptians built pyramids
Wegener could not explain how the continents moved
Wegener could not explain what happened to Atlantis
Wegener could not explain new land created by volcanoes
5
Who was Alfred Wegner?
German scientist who developed theory of Continental Drift
Swiss scientist who went diving
Canadian scientist who thought continents moved
Austrian scientist who explored volcanos
6
Land between two normal faults moves upward to form a
fault-block mountain
syncline
hanging wall
fold
7
A hypothesis is a
A guessing game
An explanation for a set of observations.
A truth or fact
When you make a guess.
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Which of the following is not a stress that rocks are put under?
Compression
Tension
Shear
Rotational
9
Process by which the Earth's crust sinks into the mantle is
subduction
convection
sublimation
conduction
10
What is evident that an area was once covered by a glacier?
Loess deposits
U-shaped valley
alluvial fan
V-Shaped valley
11
Outer most layer of the Earth is known as
the mantle
the lithosphere
the core
the crust
12
Humus is...
Soil that is dark in color
Plants growing on the topsoil
Dead plants and animals that decompose
13
As more water flows through a river, its speed
decreases
reduces the friction
stays the same
increases
14
what is a tsunami
some cool wave that would be rad to surf on
a small wave that hits the beach
a long high wave caused by an earthquake
a shaking in the ground
15
Mass movement is caused by
chemical weathering
gravity
erosion and deposition
plucking and abrasion
16
What is a Mineral?
A substance with chemical composition/physical structure.
A substance that may be liquid or solid with ID Properties.
An artificial solid substance that has a physical structure.
A rock that has a weird name.
17
Which of these is not a type of plate boundary?
Tension
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
18
The 2 types of weathering
mechanical and erosion
mechanical and chemical
weathering and erosion
frost wedging and ice wedging
19
What does the theory of plate tectonics state?
Continents are solid land masses that do not move
Continents change shape and size due to erosion and uplift
The Rocky Mountains & Appalachians formed in the same event
Earth's surface is broken into rigid plates that move
20
The bottom part of a normal fault is called
the hanging wall
anticline
reverse fault
footwall
21
Do P waves move the fastest?
False
True
22
What causes convection?
Differences in rock types
Differences in density and temperature
Differences in geolocation
Differences in material
23
What are Earthquakes
Panquakes and milk
landforms created by 2 converging continental plates.
Landforms that spew magma coming from the mantle.
Violent shaking in the ground caused by plates moving
24
The process that powers plate tectonics is
radiation
conduction
subduction
convection
25
Fragments freeze to the bottom of a glacier and carried away is
valley widening
plucking
surging
abrasion
26
What is pangea...?
Super continent
Land
Water
Volcano
27
Landslides, mudflows, slump, and creep are examples of
runoff
soil formation
mass movement
mechanical weathering
28
What does the theory of plate tectonics state?
Continents are solid land masses that do not move
Earth's surface is broken into rigid plates that move
Continents change shape and size due to erosion and uplift
The Rocky Mountains & Appalachians formed in the same event
29
tiny grooves in the soil by sheet erosion are
deltas
streams
gullies
rills
30
Where is old crust located?
furthest from the mid-ocean ridge
Close to a magma chamber
Close to the mid-ocean ridge
At the bottom of a mountain
31
Where do most earthquakes occur?
Deserts
Along plate boundaries
Plains
Mountains
32
mass movement
any one of several processes by which gravity moves sediment uphill
any one of several processes by which gravity moves sediment downhill
a set of several procsses by which gravity moves sediment downhill
any one of several processes by which movement moves sediment downhill
33
Earthworms help mix the soil.
True
False
34
What is a Manipulated Variable?
The part of the experiment that stays the same
The part of the experiment that changes
The part of the experiment that the scientist changes
The part the the experiment that we measure
35
The best way to protect yourself from an earthquake is to
drop, cover, and hold
stand under a tree
go into the closet
run as fast as you can
36
ABRASION is what kind of weathering
chemical
mechanical
37
After the Ice Age, stranded ice blocks left behind formed
Drumlins
Cirques
Kettles
Maraines
38
Igneous rock...
A rock formed by layers of sediments, compacted and cemented.
A rock that falls from the sky.
A rock formed by heat and pressure then cooled by magma.
Rock formed by cooling magma.
39
S-waves are also known as
secondary waves
surface waves
simple waves
primary waves
40
What boundary is a mid-ocean ridge
divergent
collision
convergent
transform
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Which mountain type is the result of tension stress?
Fault-Block
Volcanic
Uplifted
Folded
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What factors determine the rate of weathering.
type of rock and climate
chemicals in rock
color of rock
What part of the world rock is located at.
