Earth Science Review Quiz

Sometimes water gets into cracks of rocks.  When it freezes, it expands.  When it thaws, it shrinks. This causes the rock to be _________.

• Eroded

• Deposited

• Weathered

• Larger

Volcanoes can be constructive and destructive

• True

• False

As mountains age, they become smooth and round. Why?

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Volcanoes

To prepare for floods, houses can also be built on _____ to protect them from getting flooded.

• springs

• isolation bearings

• stilts

• bricks

Earthquakes are both constructive and destructive.

• True

• False

___________ are used to help predict flooding and give people the opportunity to prepare for their homes for floods.

• Satellites in space

• Radars with infrared technology

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• weather maps

Volcanoes are destructive, because they destroy everything in their paths.  They are constructive, because __________________.

• magma shoots into the air

• everything burns down

• the lava hardens to create new land

• mountains are created

_________ breaks up rocks to form sand, dirt, and sediment.

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

________ can be used to capture images from space and help with forecasting the weather.

• seismographs

• satellites

• spaceships

• cameras

Stream tables are great examples of how water shapes land by _______.

• weathering

• deposition

• erosion