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WorksheetsTectonics, rivers and coasts.
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which type of volcanoes is the most explosive?
Shield
Composite
Dormant
Extinct
Which plate margin has no volcanoes?
Destructive
Divergent
Collision
Nazca and the South America boundary
How hot is the centre of the earth?
1000 degrees Celsius
6000 degrees Celsius
12,000 degrees Celsius
1,000,000 degrees Celsius
Which element generate heat in the Earth core?
Lokium
Odinium
Freyeium
Thorium
Which one of these volcanic hazard petrified people in Pompeii?
Ash
Pyroclastic flow
Lahar
Sulphur dioxide
Which word describe the movement of water down through the soil?
Transpiration
Evaporation
Percolation
Infiltration
Which of these is the fastest way that water gets to a river?
Surface runoff
Throughflow
Groundwater flow
Infiltration
What is the name for a small river that joint a bigger river?
Tributary
Confluence
Estuary
Meander
Which of these is not a way in which rivers cause erosion?
Attrition
Hydraulic action
Abrasion
Traction
Which of these is not a way that a river carries its load?
Suspension
Hydraulic action
Traction
Saltation
At the coast what is found before a stump is created?
Seagulls
Arch
Wave-cut platform
Stack
Which of these is not a characteristic of a constructive wave?
A stronger swash
A stronger backwash
A long wavelength
A low wave height
Which of these does not help to create large waves?
A long fetch
A strong wind
The wind blowing for a long time
The tide
Which of these coastal management strategies is design to stop longshore drift?
Seawall
Rip-rap/rock armour
Gabions
Groynes
Which of these rock types is eroded the quickest?
Granite
Chalk
Limestone
Boulder clay
