WorksheetsVocabulary Quiz for Earth’s Surface Systems
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 26mins
What word means “type of rock that forms fine particles from other rocks or the remains of organisms”?
Sedimentary Rock
Igneous Rock
Deflation
Alluvial Fan
What word means “wearing down and caring away rock particles on Earth’s surface”?
Hardening
Weathering
Pressure
Cementation
What word means “dissolved minerals glue to compacted layers of sediment together”?
Ice Age
Deflation
Pressure
Cementation
What word means “factor that creates metamorphic and sedimentary rocks”?
Ice Age
Cooling
Pressure
Melting
What word means “happens when magma or lava is cooling”?
Hardening
Sediment
Loess
Het
What word means “small solid pieces of material that comes from rocks or the remains of organisms”?
Hardening
Sediment
Loess
Het
What word means “the process by which wind removes surface materials”?
Ice Age
Deflation
Pressure
Cementation
What word means “the fault wide areas of land along a river”?
Hardening
Flood Plain
Headland
Cementation
What word means “a glacier that covers much of a continent or large island”?
Continental Glacier
Metamorphic Rock
Headland
Compacrion
What word means “a type of rock that forms from existing rocks that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions”?
erosion
Metamorphic Rock
Deposition
Melting
What word means “involves the movement or rock particles by gravity, water, wind, ice”?
Erosion
Chemical Weathering
Deposition
Melting
What word means “process in which sediments is laid down in new locations”?
Erosion
Sand dune
Deposition
Melting
What word means “caused by increase in temperature in rock deep below the surface of Earth”?
Erosion
Alluvial Fan
Deposition
Melting
What word means “chemical change within the bonds holding the rocks together”?
Erosion
Alluvial Fan
Chemical Weathering
Melting
What word means “a deposit of wind-blown sand”?
Sand Dune
Alluvial Fan
Ice Age
Melting
What word means “a wide sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain rang”?
Igneous Rock
Alluvial Fan
Ice Age
Melting
What word means “time in Earth’s history during which glaciers covered large parts of the surface”?
Igneous Rock
Compaction
Ice Age
Melting
What word means “a type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface”?
Igneous Rock
Mechanical Weathering
Cooling
Heat
What word means “layers of sediments are squeezed and compacted”?
Compaction
Mechanical Weathering
Cooling
Cemenation
What word means “aa factor that creates metamorphic rocks ”?
Igneous Rock
Mechanical Weathering
Cooling
Heat
What word means “ a process that creates igneous rocks”?
Cooling
Mass movement
Loess
Glacier
What word means “the process that breaks rocks apart without changing their chemical composition caused ”?
Igneous Rock
Mechanical Weathering
Cooling
Longshore Drift
What word means “any one of several processes by which gravity moves sediment downhill”?
Cooling
Mass movement
Loess
Glacier
What word means “a wind formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt”?
Cooling
Mass movement
Loess
Glacier
What word means “any large mass of ice that moves slowly overland”?
longshore Drift
Mass movement
Continental Glacier
Glacier
What word means “the movement of water and sediment down a beach caused by waves coming into shore at an angle”?
Longshore Drift
Mass movement
Continental Glacier
Glacier
