Unit 6: Processes That Shaped Earth Practice Test

What are the two types of weathering?

• Mechanical and Physical
• Mechanical and Chemical
• Chemical and Abrasion
• There's more than two types

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The sea arch pictured was made through...

• Mechanical weathering of the rock cliff
• Chemical weathering of the rock cliff

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Erosion is defined as ________

• The transport of sediment
• The break down of rcoks into sediment
• the depositing of sediment
• None of these

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Weathering is defined as________

• The transport of sediments
• The breaking down of rocks into sediment
• The deposit of sediment
• None of these

What type of plate boundary & crust type usually creates tall mountains?

• Convergent, continental-oceanic
• Divergent, continental-continental
• Convergent, continental-continental
• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of rock is formed deep underground through heat and pressure?

• Igneous
• Sedimentray
• Metamorphic
• None of these

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Fossils are found in what type of rock?

• Igneous
• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• None of these

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Obsidian is shiny, smooth and usually black. It is an igneous rock, and forms when:

• Magma cools slowly underground
• Lava cools slowly underground
• Magma cools quickly on the surface
• Lava cools quickly on the surface

Earthquakes are most likely to form _________

• randomly
• on convergtent plate boundaries
• on divergent plate boundaries
• on all plate boundaries

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What type of boundary is pictured?

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Transform
• None of these

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3