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Where do MOST earthquakes occur?
a) in random locations
b) mostly on land
c) mostly in the ocean
d) along plate boundaries

What do we call the type of stress that occurs when an object is squeezed?
a) straining
b) tension
c) stretching
d) compression

Who hypothesized that the continents were once one land mass?
a) Newton
b) Einstein
c) Wegener
d) Galileo

Which describes a convergent plate boundary?
a) when plates come together and collide
b) when plates slide past each other horizontally
c) when plates move away from each other
d) when plates do not move

What plate is located furthest SOUTH?
a) North American Plate
b) Eurasian Plate
c) African Plate
d) Antarctic Plate

What do we call the zigzag movement of sand along the shoreline at a beach?
a) loess
b) longshore drift
c) a sandbar
d) a barrier island

What is a large mass of ice that moves slowly over land called?
a) a till
b) a glacier
c) a moraine
d) a depression

Which of the following is NOT one of the three main layers of Earth?
a) crust
b) mantle
c) submantle
d) core

Sediment is picked up and moved away by which of these processes?
a) deposition
b) weathering
c) erosion
d) compaction

What is known as the highest point which separates areas?
a) stream
b) divide
c) floodplain
d) drainage basin

Which one of the following is not a major region?
a) temperate
b) tropical
c) forest canopy
d) desert

What is the main component of soil?
a) air
b) water
c) organic matter
d) weathered rock

When water, oxygen and iron combine what is produced?
a) rust
b) carbon
c) carbon dioxide
d) carbon monoxide

Metamorphic rock like marble requre heat and pressure to form. As a result, where do most metamorphic rocks form?
a) deep in the earth
b) on the earth's surface
c) at the bottom of oceans
d) in river deltas

What is changed about a rock during mechanical weathering?
a) the composition of the rock
b) the color of the rock
c) the shape of the rock
d) what is being dissolved in the rock

Sedimentary rock forms at or near the earth's surface. What are the particles that form sedimentary rock called?
a) sediment
b) air
c) magma
d) carbon

Which is the best description of a rock
a) A mixture of one or more minerals and possibly organic matter
b) One pure mineral and organic matter
c) A mixture of organic matter
d) Various minerals, but no organic matter

What is term/phrase that means: returning the land to its original condition
a) deforestation
b) subsurface mining
c) surface mining
d) reclamation

Which one of these questions should you NOT ask yourself when identifying if something is a mineral?
a) Does it have a crystalline structure?
b) Is it nonlivng?
c) Is it a solid?
d) Is it metal?

What property of a mineral is shown by its luster?
a) how the mineral breaks
b) ability to reflect light
c) ability to mark a surface
d) color of the mineral

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