GEOLOGY REVIEW

The slow but continual motion of tectonic plates

across the surface of the Earth is called ___

• Floating land theory

• Land Bridges

• Continental Drift

• Terrestrial Slide

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Which description best explains Earth's crust?

• hot, melting liquid that becomes rock

• a million microscopic rocks

• one enormous piece of rock

• seven plates that move at different speeds

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Using the picture, infer what has caused the change in the shoreline.

• Erosion of sediments by water
• Weathering caused by a glacier
• Rocks breaking down from acid rain
• An erupting volcano

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How do glaciers effect the land?

• They carry large boulders that scrape against the surface and wear away the rocks
• They cause the wind to blow harder in these areas
• Glaciers do not affect the land because they are just blocks of ice

• They cause the formation of sea caves when they melt

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The process by which water, wind, ice, and changes in temperature break down rock into fragments called sediments.

• Deposition
• Erosion
• Weathering
• Igneous Rock

Processes that wear down Earth's surface are ___

• constructive

• destructive

• sediment

• crust

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Some processes that change landforms are constructive and some are destructive.

Which of the following is an example of a constructive process shaping a landform?

• Wind weathers rock into sand.

• Earthquakes move land and rocks.

• Rivers carry sediment and build deltas.

• Glaciers carve the land as they move.

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What most likely occurs along this fault?

• volcanic eruptions

• earthquakes

• caves

• erosion

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When two tectonic plates move away from each other,

due to rising hot mantle, new crust can be formed.

This is called ___

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Land Lengthening

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The Ring of Fire is a string of volcanoes and sites of

seismic activity, or earthquakes, around the edges of ___

• Cities

• Jungles and deserts

• The atmosphere and biosphere

• The Pacific Ocean

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