Physical Geography Test

What is the term for the location on the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake?

• magma

• tectonic plates

• epicenter

• lithosphere

What is the organic material that contributes to the fertility of soil?

• sediment

• humus

• magma

• mechanical weathering

What is the hot, molten rock under the surface of the earth?

• volcano

• Ring of Fire

• lava

• magma

What is the name of the layer of gases that surrounds the earth?

• hydrosphere

• atmosphere

• lithosphere

• biosphere

This is the result of weathering breaking large rocks into fine particles.

• sediment

• mechanical weathering

• chemical weathering

• humus

The solid rock portion of the earth's surface.

• hydrosphere

• atmosphere

• lithosphere

• biosphere

A giant ocean wave, sometimes caused by an earthquake.

• Ring of Fire

• hurricane

• mechanical weathering

• tsunami

The type of weathering that changes the size of a rock, but not its composition.

• mechanical weathering

• chemical weathering

• glacial erosion

• water erosion

The name given to the area where most of the world's active volcanoes exist.

• Pacific Rim

• Plate Tectonics

• Volcano Ring

• Ring of Fire

Moving pieces under the earth's surface that form the earth's crust.

• lithosphere

• magma

• tectonic plates

• sediment