stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
Earth Science Review Unit #4 Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
Earth Science Review Unit #4
Earth Science Review Unit #4
20 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
309 plays
Practice for Unit #4 Test over Earth Science
Flashcards
20 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
20
Answers
1
Which soil horizon is responsible for the soil fertility?
A
C
B
D
2
What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?
A syncline
A rift zone
A divergent boundry
A subduction zone
3
What happens when stress causes a strike-slip fault?
The walls drop down.
Walls slide past each other.
The walls move up.
4
What causes rock layers to fold?
boulders
stress
synclines
anticlines
5
Where can mountains be formed?
When plates are causing a rife zone?
When the plates are pushing together?
When the plates are going above and under each other?
6
Tectonic Plates can be made of continental crust or oceanic crust. How are they different?
One is thinner than the other
One has more water.
One is thicker than the other
One is larger than the other.
7
Rift Zone is an area when the plates moves away from each other?
False
True
8
How are volcanic mountains formed?
by tension
by compression
by eruption of melted rock
shear stress
9
What type of rock is coal?
extrusive igneous
organic sedimantary
clastic sedimentary
intrusive igneous
10
Scientists used chemical composition to divide the earth into layers.
True
False
11
Using the picture what is true about tectonic plates
They have oceans and continents
They only include the water
They include continients
they are the same size
12
What must happen to igneous rock before it can change into sedimentary rock?
Become magma
Needs to be near high heat.
dissolve in water
Break into sediment
13
What explains the movement of Earth's tectonic plates?
mantle convection and continental drift
slab pull
Sea-floor spreading and slab pull
mantle convection, ridge push and slab pull
14
Where are the oldest rock layers in a anticline?
top of the fold
in the arch
center of the fold
15
Which layer is the thinnest?
crust
mantle
outer core
16
This is?
a man-made border
a river
a fault line
a rock layer
17
What will cause a tsunami?
Earthquake
A typhoon
To much wind.
Dropping an elephant from the sky.
18
Where is the epicenter of an earthquake located?
Point B
At letter C
Point A
Between A and C
19
How does ice form a glacier?
Ground temperature turns snow into ice
The cold wind blows the snow
the snow melts
The snow builds up
20
What process causes hot, solid rock to rise through the mantle?
conduction
convection
