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Geoscience Processes

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the following surface features could be caused by moving ice but not by moving water or wind?

a)

Transporting large boulders over many kilometers

b)

Smoothing and rounding rocks of different sizes

c)

Carving out a canyon several kilometers long

d)

Movement of sediments down a mountainside

2.

Which of these geoscience process has the largest time scale?

a)

tornado

b)

landslide

c)

flash flood

d)

delta formation

3.

One of these does not describe a tectonic plate boundary

a)

convergent

b)

divergent

c)

transform

d)

landslide

4.

Which type of plate boundary creates mountains

a)

divergent

b)

convergent

c)

transform

d)

landslide

5.

Mass of Earth and rock sliding down a mountain

a)

landslide

b)

earthquake

c)

volcano

d)

tornado

6.

Movement of Earth's crust resulting in a violent shaking

a)

volcano

b)

earthquake

c)

tornado

d)

delta formation

7.

Example of

a)

limestone

b)

earthquake

c)

landslide

d)

delta formation

8.

Example of

a)

landslide

b)

tornado

c)

hurricane

d)

delta

9.

Example of

a)

Weathering and erosion by water

b)

Weathering and erosion by wind

c)

Weathering and erosion by ice

d)

Plate tectonics

10.

Which of the following changes to Earth’s surface is most likely to represent the smallest scale of space and time?

a)

A landslide on a mountain

b)

Uplift of mountain ranges

c)

Breakdown of rock into sediments

d)

Formation of a canyon

11.

What natural disasters do populations living on the Ring of Fire face?

a)

tornadoes and hurricanes

b)

earthquakes and hurricanes

c)

volcanoes and sandstorms

d)

earthquakes and volcanoes

12.

A subduction zone is...

a)

plates pull apart.

b)

the continental plate slides under the oceanic plate.

c)

where the oceanic plate slides under the continental plate.

d)

plates slap each other a high five.

13.

Which of the following geoscience processes is primarily responsible for the formation of sedimentary rock layers?

a)

A) Volcanic eruptions

b)

B) Erosion and deposition

c)

C) Earthquakes

d)

D) Tectonic plate movement

14.

What is the main driving force behind the movement of tectonic plates?

a)

A) Gravitational pull from the moon

b)

B) Ocean currents

c)

C) Mantle convection

d)

D) Solar radiation

15.

Which geoscience process is most likely to cause the formation of a delta at the mouth of a river?

a)

A) Erosion

b)

B) Deposition

c)

C) Weathering

d)

D) Volcanic activity