Geology Vocabulary III Question Preview (ID: 38118)

a) mountains form

b) oceans closed up

c) water levels rose

d) glaciers form

a) cracking of Earth's crust by earthquakes

b) volcanic explosions

c) erosion by wind and rain

d) scouring of continental glaciers

a) breaking down of material and changing it's chemical composition

b) chemical reaction between water and oxygen

c) mixture of different types of rock

d) mowing grass

a) volcanic eruption

b) oxidation, acid rain, plant root secretion

c) sun's heat and energy

d) island formation

a) mantle currents

b) metamorphic currents

c) convection currents

d) ocean currents

a) two plates sliding past each other at a transform boundary

b) subduction of an oceanic plate under another at a convergent boundary

c) mountain building at a convergent continental vs continental boundary

d) magma rising up from mantle at a divergent boundary

a) running water, sun's heat, mountain formation

b) ice wedging, animals digging, plant roots, falling rocks, running water

c) ice melting, pouring asphalt, bike riding

d) chewing, cutting, planting

a) breaking down of material by wind, water or ice

b) carrying away of broken down material

c) dropping off broken down material to another location

d) volcanic eruptions

a) trenches, rift valley, faults

b) beach shells, root growth, subduction

c) sand dunes, deltas, stalactite and stalagmites

d) volcanic eruption, sunburst, craters

a) volcanic debris

b) carrying away broken down material

c) breaking down material, by water, wind or ice

d) dropping off rock, sand or sediment, in another location, that has been eroded

a) top layer of ocean levels

b) shows how the ground shape and provides a way to calculate height of features on a map

c) subtract two numbered lines and divide

d) mapping night sky

a) distance between mountain peaks

b) deepest part of a trench

c) difference in elevation between two different contour lines

d) line of division between sea level

a) balanced

b) unbalanced

c)

d)

a) balanced

b) unbalanced

c)

d)

a) gravitational force

b) inertia of plates

c) weight of plates

d) unbalanced forces

a) balanced

b) unbalanced

c)

d)

a) balanced

b) unbalanced

c)

d)

a) mining activity during the nineteenth century

b) plates grinding past each other along a active fault

c) interaction of tides with the coast

d) lowing of aquifer levels

a) magma rising from mantle

b) subduction of on ocean plate under another

c) two plates sliding past each other

d) mountain building at an ocean-continental boundary

a) divergent

b) convergent

c) transform

d) subduction