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WorksheetsEarth Science
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 2hrs 30mins
Which of the following defines what a valley is?
High, uplifted area with steep slopes?
Land that gets covered by water when a stream or river when floods
A low area between hills or mountains often where a stream or river flows
fan shaped deposit at the mouth of a river
Blank rocks are formed under the surface of the earth's crust.
(a)
What kind of rock is the one shown here?
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Fraggle
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
What conditions were supposed to help in the crystallization of sugar in the lab we did?
Which of the following is a type of convergent plate boundary? (Hint: May be more than one answer!)
crust-country convergence
continental-continental
oceanic-continental
subduction-subduction
Briefly explain what the theory of plate tectonics states.
Which rocks have the ability to house fossils?
Metamorphic
Sediments
Igneous
Sedimentary
Which of the definitions is that of a canyon?
V-Shaped valley eroded by a stream
Mound, ridge, or hill of windblown sand
Nearly level area that has been eroded or where material has been deposited
gently sloping shore next to a body of water
In geology what is a "fault"?
a piece of land surrounded by water
A round shape formed in a mountain
break in earth's surface in which movement has occured
when the blame gets shifted to someone
Explain the difference between magma and lava?
The process of sediment sticking together to form new rocks is called?
concretion
cementation
fraction
sanitation
What two things happen in the process of metamorphism?
Crystals are capable of forming in which of the following type of rocks?
fossils
intrusive igneous
sedimentary
extrusive igneous
Blank is the midpoint horizontal line that marks "0" in latitude.
(a)
Which of the following sounds like a glacier to you?
A round shape formed when rocks like granite peel away at the Earth's surface
A medium-to-large body of water surrounded by land
A bank along a stream that may stop land from flooding
A large mass of ice moving slowly over land
Which one of the following is the definition of a mountain?
Unsorted rocks and soil carried and deposited by a glacier in a mound or ridge
A large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak Must be at least 305m in elevation above their base
pile of earth materials that results from the rapid movement of material down a slope
The sand deposited by wind in ridges, mounds, or hills
A blank is a mountain made of lava, cinders, ash, and gases that have poured out through an opening in Earth's crust
(a)
