Earth Proccesses Quiz
7th Grade quiz
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- When two plates collide and one is forced toward the heat of the mantle, which type of rock is formed
- Igneous
- Heat and pressure can change any rock into which type of rock
- Metamorphic
- What technology did scientist use to map the mid-ocean ridge
- Sonar waves
- What is the moment magnitude scale
- estimed amount of energy rleased during an earthquake
- Put events in order A dinosaurs became extinct B Fossil evidence of first life on Earth C Fossil evidence of first modern humans D Age of the reptiles E Earth formed
- E, B, D, A, C
- How do plates move rocks through the rock cycle
- Faulting, folding, and the uplifting of the crust
- Where do most volcanoes occur
- plate boundaries
- What is created when two continental plates collide
- Mountains
- What land form is created when a volcano erupts
- a mountain is created
- What is a convection
- the transfer of heat by movements of of heated fluid
- If the pattern of continental drift continues, what will the continents look like in 425 million years
- the continents will meet together
- Which of these is not a process of the rock cycle; Smelting, erosion, melting, volcanic activity
- Smelting
- What factor determines the force of a volcanic eruption
- the amount of gas
- Which island formed first of the Hawaiian Islands
- the farthest one away
- Cooling lava or magma for which type of rock
- Igneous
- Igneous rock that formed lava erupted onto Earth's surface is called what
- Extrusive
- What does a seismograph record
- Land movements for seismic wave
- What is a conglomerate
- a clastic sedimentary rock with rounded fragments
- What are rocks made up of
- minerals and other substances
- How can oceanic crust eventually become magma
- It can become magma by the crust melting through the process of seduction
- What is the rock cycle
- the process of rocks changing into another over time
- What happens as plates spread apart
- rift valleys, volcanoes, and earthquakes
- What three forms of evidence did Wengner use to support his theory
- Land form, fossils, and climate
- Which seismic waves move fastest and arrive first, compressing and expanding the ground
- P waves
- What occures most frequently along a transfer boundary
- earthquakes