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WorksheetsEarth's Changing Surface
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a constructive force in which sediments have been moved from one place and released in another place?
a)
deposition
b)
weathering
c)
glacier
d)
sink hole
2.
What is melted rock below the Earth's surface called?
a)
lava
b)
magma
c)
sediment
d)
weathering
3.
What do plates that crash into each other create?
a)
earthquakes
b)
disaster
c)
mountains
4.
What does a glacier create?
a)
V shaped valleys
b)
U shaped valleys
c)
Big valleys
d)
small valleys
5.
What does fast moving water carry?
a)
ice
b)
sediment
c)
trees
d)
huge rocks
6.
What does a river do when it empties into a lake or ocean?
a)
Stop
b)
Drop its sediment
c)
Go faster
d)
Turn left or right
7.
What happens when magma reaches the surface?
a)
It cools into lava rock
b)
It exploes
c)
It glows red
d)
It melts back into the earth
8.
What does coral build?
a)
mountains
b)
islands
c)
reefs
9.
Which does a glacier act like as it changes the earth's surface?
a)
car
b)
truck
c)
bulldozer
d)
ice machine
10.
What is till called that is dropped at the front of a glacier?
a)
till
b)
dirt
c)
moraines
d)
hills
11.
What is a low plane that forms where a river enters an ocean?
a)
sediment
b)
deposition
c)
delta
d)
magma
12.
What formed the Hawaiian Islands?
a)
desposition
b)
magma
c)
coral
13.
What describes tectonic plates that collide together?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
14.
What describes tectonic plates that pull apart?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
15.
What describes tectonic plates that slide side by side?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
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