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Fast Changes

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why are fast land changes so dangerous?

a)

because they are hard to predict

b)

because they are hard to get away from

c)

because they happen quickly

d)

all of the above

2.

What are the pieces of crust that the earth's surface is made of called ?

a)

tentacle plates

b)

tectonic plates

c)

mantle plates

d)

shaking plates

3.

What is the process of taking weathered materials from one place to another

a)
weathering
b)
wind
c)
erosion
d)
landform
4.

Mountains, volcanoes, and valleys are all _______?

a)
hills
b)
fast changes
c)
landforms
5.
This happens when rocks and soil slide down a hill or cliff suddenly
a)

earthquake

b)

landslide

c)

flood

6.
What is the liquid rock that comes out of a volcano?
a)
fire
b)
magma
c)
pizza sauce
7.

Volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, and floods are all examples of?

a)

fast changes

b)

slow changes

8.

Changes to the Earth can happen fast or slow.

a)

true

b)

false

9.

What does fast change mean?

a)

a change that takes a long time to happen

b)

a change that happens very quickly

10.

Natural disasters like hurricanes and landslides change the land by covering it with mud and water. What type of change is this?

a)

fast

b)

slow

11.

When a volcano erupts suddenly, ash, lava and gases erupt and fall to the ground. What type of change is this?

a)

fast

b)

slow

12.

Earthquakes can create large cracks in the Earth. What kind of change is this?

a)

fast

b)

slow

13.

Most mountains form when Earth's tectonic plates push together over a long period of time. What kind of change is this?

a)

fast

b)

slow

14.

An island is created over a long period of time when a volcano erupts many times. What kind of change is this?

a)

fast

b)

slow

15.

Earth's surface can change

a)

Once per year

b)

Every decade

c)

Over long and short periods of time

16.

What are Earth's fast changes?

a)

Tsunamis, earthquakes, landslides and volcanoes

b)

Erosion and deposition

c)

Day time and night time

17.

Landslides effect the Earth's surface by...

a)

Moving mud down the slopes and covering the area.

b)

They don't effect the Earth's surface.

18.

A volcanic eruption is a fast or slow Earth process?

a)

fast

b)

slow

19.

A volcano can change the Earth's surface by..

a)

Destroying land around it.

b)

Creating new islands.

c)

By costal erosion

d)

Answer 1 and 2: Both destroying and creating land.

20.

What are the four main layers of Earth?

a)

crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

b)

crust, sauce, cheese, pepperoni

c)

mantle, sediment, igneous, metamorphic

d)

weathering, erosion, deposition

21.

Landslides cannot happen underwater?

a)

true

b)

false

22.

What is the name of the molten rock in this picture?

a)

lava

b)

magma

23.

What is the name of the molten rock in this picture?

a)

lava

b)

magma

24.

Which one is not a fast change?

a)

erosion

b)

volcanoes

c)

earthquakes

d)

tsunamis

25.

Humans can sometimes cause landslides.

a)

true

b)

false