Arkansas History Quiz

Most __________ occur along cracks in the earth called faults.

• floods

• fossils

• geologists

• earthquakes

The ____________ fault line runs through Arkansas.

• New Madrid

• New Mexico

• New Missouri

• New Arkansas

scientists who study how the earth was formed and how it changes

• seismologists

• geologists

• biologists

• earthologists

layers of rock beneath the earth's crust that fit together like puzzle pieces

• saucers

• pieces

• plates

• tributaries

scientists who study earthquakes

• seismologists

• geologists

• richters

• quakeologists

used to measure the size and strength of earthquakes

• fossils

• earthquake scale

• Richter scale

• seismoscale

traces of ancient plants and animals imbedded in rocks

• igneous

• metamorphic

• plates

• fossils

small rivers that empty into larger rivers

• triceratops

• oxbow

• magmas

• tributaries

Layered rock that is made of sediment pressed together

• sedimentary

• igneous

• metamorphic

rocks formed when melted rocks cool

• sedimentary

• igneous

• metamorphic