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Vocabulary Quiz for Earth’s Surface Systems

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What word means “type of rock that forms fine particles from other rocks or the remains of organisms”?

a)

Sedimentary Rock

b)

Igneous Rock

c)

Deflation

d)

Alluvial Fan

2.

What word means “wearing down and caring away rock particles on Earth’s surface”?

a)

Hardening

b)

Weathering

c)

Pressure

d)

Cementation

3.

What word means “dissolved minerals glue to compacted layers of sediment together”?

a)

Ice Age

b)

Deflation

c)

Pressure

d)

Cementation

4.

What word means “factor that creates metamorphic and sedimentary rocks”?

a)

Ice Age

b)

Cooling

c)

Pressure

d)

Melting

5.

What word means “happens when magma or lava is cooling”?

a)

Hardening

b)

Sediment

c)

Loess

d)

Het

6.

What word means “small solid pieces of material that comes from rocks or the remains of organisms”?

a)

Hardening

b)

Sediment

c)

Loess

d)

Het

7.

What word means “the process by which wind removes surface materials”?

a)

Ice Age

b)

Deflation

c)

Pressure

d)

Cementation

8.

What word means “the fault wide areas of land along a river”?

a)

Hardening

b)

Flood Plain

c)

Headland

d)

Cementation

9.

What word means “a glacier that covers much of a continent or large island”?

a)

Continental Glacier

b)

Metamorphic Rock

c)

Headland

d)

Compacrion

10.

What word means “a type of rock that forms from existing rocks that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions”?

a)

erosion

b)

Metamorphic Rock

c)

Deposition

d)

Melting

11.

What word means “involves the movement or rock particles by gravity, water, wind, ice”?

a)

Erosion

b)

Chemical Weathering

c)

Deposition

d)

Melting

12.

What word means “process in which sediments is laid down in new locations”?

a)

Erosion

b)

Sand dune

c)

Deposition

d)

Melting

13.

What word means “caused by increase in temperature in rock deep below the surface of Earth”?

a)

Erosion

b)

Alluvial Fan

c)

Deposition

d)

Melting

14.

What word means “chemical change within the bonds holding the rocks together”?

a)

Erosion

b)

Alluvial Fan

c)

Chemical Weathering

d)

Melting

15.

What word means “a deposit of wind-blown sand”?

a)

Sand Dune

b)

Alluvial Fan

c)

Ice Age

d)

Melting

16.

What word means “a wide sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain rang”?

a)

Igneous Rock

b)

Alluvial Fan

c)

Ice Age

d)

Melting

17.

What word means “time in Earth’s history during which glaciers covered large parts of the surface”?

a)

Igneous Rock

b)

Compaction

c)

Ice Age

d)

Melting

18.

What word means “a type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface”?

a)

Igneous Rock

b)

Mechanical Weathering

c)

Cooling

d)

Heat

19.

What word means “layers of sediments are squeezed and compacted”?

a)

Compaction

b)

Mechanical Weathering

c)

Cooling

d)

Cemenation

20.

What word means “aa factor that creates metamorphic rocks ”?

a)

Igneous Rock

b)

Mechanical Weathering

c)

Cooling

d)

Heat

21.

What word means “ a process that creates igneous rocks”?

a)

Cooling

b)

Mass movement

c)

Loess

d)

Glacier

22.

What word means “the process that breaks rocks apart without changing their chemical composition caused ”?

a)

Igneous Rock

b)

Mechanical Weathering

c)

Cooling

d)

Longshore Drift

23.

What word means “any one of several processes by which gravity moves sediment downhill”?

a)

Cooling

b)

Mass movement

c)

Loess

d)

Glacier

24.

What word means “a wind formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt”?

a)

Cooling

b)

Mass movement

c)

Loess

d)

Glacier

25.

What word means “any large mass of ice that moves slowly overland”?

a)

longshore Drift

b)

Mass movement

c)

Continental Glacier

d)

Glacier

26.

What word means “the movement of water and sediment down a beach caused by waves coming into shore at an angle”?

a)

Longshore Drift

b)

Mass movement

c)

Continental Glacier

d)

Glacier