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WorksheetsThe Dynamic Earth Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the process in which the oceanic crust creates a ocean trench and is pushed back into the mantle?
a)
Sea Floor Spreading
b)
Sublimation
c)
Subduction
d)
Volcanism
2.
What is the name of the process that continually adds new rock at the Mid Ocean Ridges and pushes old rock out, making an ocean larger?
a)
Sea Floor Spreading
b)
Sublimation
c)
Subduction
d)
Volcanism
3.
If heat and pressure is added to an igneous rock what will it become?
a)
Magma
b)
Sedimentary
c)
Metamorphic
d)
It will stay igneous
4.
What is the breaking down of rock by wind, water, ice, or gravity called?
a)
Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
Deposition
d)
Cementation
5.
What is it called when a river transports sediment?
a)
Weathering
b)
Depostion
c)
Erosion
d)
Cementation
6.
What is it called when Sediment is packed together by a natural force?
a)
Weathering
b)
Compaction
c)
Erosion
d)
Deposition
7.
What type of rock is formed when magma or lava cools?
a)
Sedimentary
b)
Metamorphic
c)
Igneous
d)
Clastic
8.
If an igneous rock erodes, deposits, compacts, and cements, then goes under heat and pressure, then melts into magma, then cools, then goes under heat and pressure again what type of rock has the rock become?
a)
Clastic
b)
Sedimentary
c)
Igneous
d)
Metamorphic
9.
What is the name of the theory that was created in the early 1900's that states that the continents where at one time together and have since split apart, citing that specific fossil and landform evidence that supports the theory?
a)
Plate Tectonics
b)
Continental Drift
c)
Sea Floor Spreading
d)
Convection
10.
What is the theorized force that moves the plates?
a)
Subduction
b)
Sea Floor Spreading
c)
Convection
d)
Mid Ocean Ridge
11.
When an igneous rock cools under the ground for a long period of time and displays coarse (large) grains, what is it classified as?
a)
Extrusive
b)
Basic
c)
Intrusive
d)
Acidic
12.
Volcanic Island arcs are formed by what type of boundary?
a)
Continental-Continental Convergent Boundary
b)
Divergent Boundary
c)
Continental-Continental Boundary
d)
Oceanic Oceanic Convergent Boundary
13.
When crust is subducted what is formed?
a)
A Deep Ocean Trench
b)
Volcanoes
c)
Mid Ocean Ridges
d)
Deep Ocean Trenches and Volcanoes
14.
What type of boundary forms a Continental Volcanic Arc
a)
Continental Oceanic Convergent Boundary
b)
Oceanic Oceanic Convergent Boundary
c)
Continental Continental Convergent Boundary
d)
Transform Boundary
15.
What is a naturally occuring, inorganic, solid, with a constant chemical composition, and a crystal structure?
a)
Igneous Rocks
b)
Sedimentary Rocks
c)
Metamorphic Rocks
d)
Minerals
16.
This is an Oceanic Continental Convergent boundary. What area on Earth is formed this way?
a)
Indonesia
b)
Andes Mountains
c)
San Andreas Fault
d)
Mid Atlantic Ridge
17.
This is a diagram of a transform boundary which of the following things do transform boundaries create?
a)
Deep ocean Trench
b)
Volcano
c)
Mountain
d)
Earthquakes
18.
This is a diagram of the Mid Atlantic Ridge. What type of plate boundary is the Mid Atlantic Ridge?
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform
d)
What in the World is a Plate Boundary OH MY GOD I NEED TO STUDY!!!
19.
What type of Sedimentary rock is formed by once living things?
a)
Organic
b)
Clastic
c)
Chemical
d)
Acidic
20.
Gniess is a metamorphic rock that has layers. What type of metamorphic rock displays layers because they are exposed to more pressure than heat?
a)
Acidic
b)
Clastic
c)
Foliated
d)
NonFoliated
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