Common Assessment Review

What process occurs over long periods of time to break down rocks on Earth's Surface?

• Weathering

• deposition

• erosion

• sedimentation

What two processes are involved in transporting and laying down sediment?

• erosion

• deposition

• weathering

• compaction

What processes can change all three types of rock to sediment and move to a new location?

• cooling

• heat and pressure

• weathering and erosion

• compaction and melting

What changes igneous and sedimentary rock to metamorphic rock?

• cooling and melting

• heat and pressure

• weathering and erosion

• weathering and cementation

Igenous and metamorphic rock turn to magma by the process of

• pressure

• meltiing

• cooling

• compaction

Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic are three types of

• rocks and minerals

• rocks

• minerals

• diamond and sand

Which of the following is the order of soil beginning with the top layer?

• Humus, top soil, sub soil and bedrock

• Bedrock, top soil, hummus and sub soil

• top soil, sub soil, bed rock and hummus

• sub soil, hummus, top soil and bedrock

Earthquakes and volcanoes are caused by movement of

• tectonic plates

• inner core

• crust

• ocean waves

At which type of boundaries can earthquakes happen at?

• transform

• convergent

• divergent

• all of the answers are correct

Where are earthquakes LESS LIKELY to happen?

• at fault lines

• in the middle of continents

• transform and convergent boundaries

• divergent boundaries