Unit 4

All of the land that drains into a particular body of water is called a(n):

• watershed
• bedrock
• island
• aquifer

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The surface of the earth, otherwise known as the ______, is broken into seven major pieces and sits atop a liquid layer called the _______

• lithosphere, asthenosphere

• astenosphere, mantle

• crust, litosphere

• asthenosphere, lithosphere

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The San Andrea's Fault in California is which type of boundary?

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Subductive Zone
• Transform

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The layer of soil which the topsoil is found.

• Horizon A
• Horizon B
• Horizon C
• Horizon D or R

Sea surface temperature changes great than .5^oC for greater than 5 months across the centeral ropical Pacific OCean are known as

• the arctic effect
• the get stream 
• a typhoon
• El Nino-Southern Oscillation 

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The Coriolis effect is responsible for

• the convergence of two ascending Hadley cells
• the location of atmospheric currents caused by the unequal heating of Earth
• the cooling effect of air as it rises and expands
• the deflection of atmospheric currents

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Which is the correct order of the convection cells starting from the equator?

• polar, ferrell, hadley
• ferrell, hadley, polar
• polar, hadley, ferrell
• hadley, ferrell, polar

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The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Plate Boundary

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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake

• Volcano Eruption

• Tornado

• Mountain Building

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A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart

• Come together

• Slide past each other

• subducting

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