Quiz Rock Cycle, Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes

What are the two types of weathering?

• Mechanical and Physical
• Mechanical and Chemical
• Chemical and Abrasion
• There's more than two types

Erosion is defined as ________

• The transport of sediment
• The break down of rcoks into sediment
• the depositing of sediment
• None of these

Weathering is defined as________

• The transport of sediments
• The breaking down of rocks into sediment
• The deposit of sediment
• None of these

Theory that Earth's crust is divided into plates & the plates move around on the mantle

• Seafloor spreading

• Plate tectonics

• Continental drift

• Earthquakes

Shaking of the ground caused by sudden movement of large blocks of rocks along a fault

• Earthquake

• Volcano

• Tsunami

• Surface waves

The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake

• Juan de fuca plate

• Focus

• Seismic wave

• Epicenter

In an earthquake, the point underground where the rocks first begin to move

• Epicenter

• Normal fault

• Focus

• Reverse fault

Boundary between 2 plates that are sliding past one another

• Transform fault boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Reverse fault

Boundary between two plates moving toward each other

• Transform fault boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Strike-slip fault

Fastest seismic waves, first to reach a location after an earthquake, also called P waves

• Secondary waves

• Seismic waves

• Primary waves

• Surface waves