Exam Review 6th!

Is igneous rock formed from lava that erupted onto Earth's surface?

What is the process by which wind removes surface materials?

________ is small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things?

Sandstorms are common in the East African nation of Eritrea.

Loess helps to form fertile soil

Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is called?

Abrasion by wind-carried sand can polish rock, and causes a TON of erosion.

About 20 minerals make up most of the rocks of Earth's crust, these minerals are known as?

Subduction occurs at....?

What is a Transform Boundary?

What is a beach that projects like a finger out into the water?

Forms when a rock is changed by heat or pressure, or by chemical reactions?

The three boundaries are: divergent, convergent, transform

When continental plates pull apart at a divergent boundary on land...?

Sonar is a type of technology that scientists used in the mid-1900s to map the mid-ocean

Most rocks are made up of particles of minerals or other rocks, which geologists call?

Sandbars are long ridges of sand parallel to the shore.

In 50 years, will the continents be in the same location as they are today?

All the sediment picked up by the wind eventually falls to the ground.

describes the thin, flat layering found in most metamorphic rocks?

What are "faults" ?

Naturally occurring solid that can form by inorganic processes & has a crystal structure & definite chemical composition

What is Pangaea?

Geologists think that most desert landforms are the result of weathering and water erosion

Forms from cooling of magma or lava?

What is a continent?

Spits, form as a result of erosion

An underwater canyon is a deep-ocean trench

The shape of the sand dune is determined by the direction of the wind, the amount of sand, and the presence of plants.

series of processes that occur on Earth's surface & in the crust & mantle that slowly change rocks fm 1 kind to another

Incoming waves carrying sand may build up?

Which is NOT a major group that geologists classify rocks in?

Mountain ranges form at?

Organic Means?

Wegener said that South America and Africa "fit" together like a puzzle.

What did Wegener think happened during continental drift?

A part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean?

The energy in waves comes from?

In desert pavement, wind has blown away the smaller sediment, leaving behind rocky material.

The process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together?

Waves may erode a hollow area in rock called?

What force causes the movement of Earth's plates?

Wind causes erosion MAINLY by longshore drift

Which German scientist had the hypothesis of continental drift?

The rock cycle builds, destroys, and changes the rock in Earth's?

Beaches, sandbars, barrier beaches, and spits are coastal features that are formed by?

What is an area of wave washed sediment along a coast?

When the wind meets and obstacle, the result is usually a deposit of windblown sand called a?

Crust is the outer layer of the Earth.

______ is the look and feel of a rock's surface?

If an arch collapses, a pillar of rock, called a ___________ may result.

waves may erode the base of a cliff so much that the rock above collapses, this results in?

Geologist classify rocks according to their?

Forms where the remains of plants and animals are deposited in layers?

In deserts, deflation can sometimes create an area of rock fragments called what?

What feature of wave erosion that forms when waves erode a layer of softer rock that underlies a layer of harder rock?

Inorganic Means?