Plate Tectonics & Human Impact CA Review

Plate Tectonics & Human Impact Campus Assessment

The line that separates saturated zone & unsaturated zone

Water Table

Water that is above Earth's surface.
Water that you can see!
Ex. Rivers, lakes, oceans

Surface Water

Water that is underneath the ground

Ex. Aquifers

Groundwater

Area of land where all water drains into a body of water.

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Watershed

Underground layer of water

*Collection of groundwater

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​Aquifer

Water traveling down due to gravity

Runoff

Water being absorbed into the ground

Infiltration/Percolation/Seeps/Soaks

Chemical added to soil or land to increase its fertility.

*Agricultural
*Homeowners

Fertilizer

A chemical to kill bugs harmful to plants

Pesticide

Excess Algae Blooms causes a decrease in oxygen levels = dead zones = dead fish
Overall degrades water quality.
Aquatic plants suffer due to blocking of sunlight.

The Result:

Multiple Choice

An area of land where all the water flows to one location, like a funnel. 

• Superfund Site
• Watershed
• Succession
• River

Multiple Choice

What is all the water that runs off the surface of the land and washes into rivers, streams, and other waterways called?

• Runoff
• Storm Drain
• Surface Water
• Tributary

Multiple Choice

What occurs when used engine oil is poured into the pit in the ground?

• The oil remains sealed in the small disposal pit and does not affect the groundwater.

• The oil seeps through the soil until it leaks into the groundwater

• The oil seeps through the soil but stops before it reaches the groundwater

• The oil creates a barrier in Mrs. Dyess' room

Multiple Choice

An area of permeable layer of rock or soil that holds a large amount of water in the saturated zone is called what?

• Aquifer
• Spring
• Well
• Reservoir

Multiple Choice

When fertilizers enter surface water, they cause problems in 
the watershed by -

• increasing the amount of nutrients available to fish in lakes and streams.
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  clogging narrow streams and preventing water from flowing properly.
• raising the water level in nearby rivers to levels leading to flooding.
• causing rapid algal growth that decrease oxygen levels and choke aquatic life.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is associated with dead zones in the ocean?

• A decrease in oxygen levels.

• An increase in oxygen levels.

Oceans store a large amount of heat & it's currents transport this heat around the Earth.

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​Climate Regulation

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a way humans depend on the ocean?

• Food

• Energy

• Drinking water

• Oil & gas

• Disrupts the ecosystem

• Can cause organisms to migrate to other areas

• Extinction

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Overfishing

​-Removing fish faster than they can reproduce

Multiple Choice

Review the graph showing marine fishing rates.If the fishing rate in Asia continues to grow, what will most likely happen as a result?

• The fish population will continue to rise.

• A wide range in ocean temperatures will be seen worldwide.

• The U.S. human population will decline.

• The overfishing will cause an imbalance in marine ecosystems.

​*The cleaning solutions used on these rigs can runoff into the oceans causing toxic chemicals to enter

Commercial & recreational Fishermen know where to look...therefore, overfishing can occur.

(-) of Artificial Reefs

Multiple Choice

How do humans destroy reefs?

• Runoff

• Pollution

• Oil Spills

• Overfishing

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Coral Reefs provide what to marine life?

• Food

• Oxygen

• Shelter

• All of them

Multiple Choice

• F

• G

• H

• J

 resources that are available in infinite quantity and can be used repeatedly are called renewable resources. Example: Forest, wind, water, etc.​

Renewable​ Resources​

Tidal energy is the form of hydropower that converts the energy of tides into useful forms of power mainly for electricity

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Tidal Power

Alfred Wegner proposed pieces of evidence
1. Jigsaw Puzzle
2. Rock landforms of the same age
3. Glacier deposits
4. Fossils
* Sea Floor Spreading

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Continental Drift Theory

Multiple Choice

This picture is an example of which type of evidence?

• matching fossil

• matching land formation

• climate change

• memorial movement

Multiple Choice

This picture is an example of which type of evidence?

• matching fossil

• matching land formation

• climate change

• memorial movement

Multiple Choice

Is it Evidence?

• YES
• NO

Oldest layers are found at the bottom & youngest layers found at the very top.

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​The Law of Superposition

Multiple Choice

Which fossil is relatively the oldest?

• Trilobite
• Ammonite
• Crinoid
• Gastropod

Plates are colliding​​​

Convergent

Divergent

Transform

Plates are separating​​​

Plates are sliding​​​

-Volcanic Mountains Arc
- Volcanic Island arc
- Folded Mountains
-Earthquakes

Convergent

Divergent

Transform

-Mid-Ocean Ridge
- Rift Valley
- Seafloor Spreading
-Earthquakes

Seismic Earthquakes
Faults

​Plate Boundary Landforms

Multiple Choice

What drives tectonic plate movement? 

• gravity
• coriolis effect
• convection currents
• the earth's magnetic core

Multiple Choice

What landform would you most likely find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift Valley

• Mountain

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Volcano

Multiple Choice

What landform would you most likely find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Rift Valley

• Mountain

• Volcano

Multiple Choice

What landform would you most likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Oceanic Trench

• Mountain

• Volcano

Multiple Choice

Volcanic island arc includes which types of crusts?

Plate Boundary: CONVERGENT

• Continental - Continental

• Continental - Oceanic

• Oceanic - Oceanic

Multiple Choice

What type of crusts are used to create folded mountains?

Plate Boundary: CONVERGENT

• Convergent

  O-C

• Convergent

  C-C

• Convergent

  O-O

• Divergent

  C-C

Multiple Choice

The process of sea floor spreading is associated with which plate boundary?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

Multiple Choice

Volcanic mountain arcs are what plate boundary and what types of crusts?

• Convergent

  O-O

• Convergent

  C-C

• Divergent

  O-C

• Convergent

  O-C

Multiple Choice

A column of magma that is hotter than the surrounding area is called a _________?

• Super volcano

• Convection Currents

• Subduction zones

• Hot spot