Earth Science Test 2 Review

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Earth Science Test 2 Review

• For each question
• 1. Write down the category
• 2. Write down your answer
• 3. Check whether your answer was correct or not
• Study the categories you had the most trouble
  with tonight!!

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• Category Map Reading
• What is the name given to the imaginary circle
  halfway between the poles?
• Equator

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• Category Weathering
• Give examples of mechanical weathering.
• Ice, wind, water, gravity, plants, animals

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• Category Deformation
• What is folding?
• Rock layers bent and buckled by Earths internal
  forces

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• Category Earthquakes
• What is the name given to waves created by
• an earthquake?
• Seismic waves

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• Category Deformation
• What is compression?
• When stress squeezes an object

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• Category Deformation
• What is the name given to a fold where both ends
  are horizontal?
• Monocline

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• Category Deformation
• What is a normal fault?
• One in which the hanging wall falls relative to
  the footwall

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• Category Deformation
• Give an example of fault block mountains that we
  talked about in class. (Hint they are in WY)
• Grand Tetons

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• Category Plate tectonics
• Describe a transform boundary
• Boundary between tectonic plates that slide past
  one another

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Category Earthquakes What are the two types of
body waves called? P waves-primary waves S
waves-secondary waves
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Category Earthquakes Where would you find both
the focus and the epicenter when analyzing an
earthquake? Focus-the point in Earths interior
when an earthquake begins Epicenter-the point on
Earths surface, directly above the earthquakes
starting point
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Category Deformation What kind of fault is
created from convergent motion? Reverse Fault
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• Category Volcanoes
• How is a shield volcano formed?
• Layers of lava from non-explosive eruptions

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Category Plate Tectonics What is the name given
to the type of movement when one plate goes under
another? Subduction
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Category Map Reading What is another name given
to lines of longitude? Meridians
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Category Weathering Ice wedging occurs because
water is unique in how it responds to freezing,
what is that unique trait of water? It expands
when it freezes before it contracts
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• Category Deformation
• What is a break in the Earths crust called?
• A fault

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• Category Weathering
• What kind of climate would produce the slowest
  weathering rates?
• Cold and dry climates

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• Category Deformation
• _____________ occurs when an object is stretched.
• Tension

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• Category Deformation
• What word could be used to describe an anticline?
• Arch

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• Category Deformation
• What is the name given to both normal and reverse
  faults?
• Dip-Slip faults

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• Category Deformation
• Fill in the blanks
• __________ collide, _________ divide, and
  __________ slide
• Convergent, divergent, transform

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• Category Plate tectonics
• Where would you find the youngest crust in the
  Atlantic Ocean?
• Nearest the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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• Category Map Reading
• What directions from the prime meridian do lines
  of longitude describe?
• East/West

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• Category Volcanoes
• What is another name for a composite volcano
  created from alternating explosive eruptions and
  quiet lava flows?
• stratovolcano

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• Category Weathering
• Give examples of types of precipitation that can
  contain acid.
• Snow, sleet, or rain

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• Category Deformation
• What is the difference between a reverse fault
  and a thrust fault?
• In a reverse fault the hanging wall rises up
  relative to the footwall in a thrust fault it
  rises up and over the footwall

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• Category Plate Tectonics
• What would be the best unit of measurement to
  describe the speed of tectonic plates?
• Centimeters per year (cm/y)

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• Category Weathering
• In what type of climate would you find the
  fastest weathering?
• Warm and humid climates

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• Category Earthquakes
• Which type of seismic waves result in the most
  damage to infrastructure?
• Surface Waves
• (Love waves Raleigh waves)

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• Category Earthquakes
• What scale in used to measure the damage created
  by an earthquake?
• Mercalli Intensity Scale

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• Category Volcanoes
• What are the best conditions for rock to melt?
• High heat and low pressure

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• DO YOUR BEST ON TOMORROWS TEST!
• YOU KNOW MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU DOBE CONFIDENT
  IN THE STUDENT YOU ARE BECOMING!!!