Ess2

A student prepares a model by filling a plastic bottle with water, capping it tightly, and placing it in the freezer for 24 hours. After 24 hours, there are large cracks on the bottle's sides. The student's model most likely represents which of the following types of weathering:

• Acid rain

• Oxidation

• Frost wedging

• Abrasion

Which of the following pair of terms explains why pebbles in a river are smoother and more rounded than rocks found on land?

• Exfoliation and deposition

• Weathering and deposition

• Weathering and erosion

• Deposition and Burrowing

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A delta is a large deposit of sediment that forms where a stream enters a large body of water. What causes this to happen?

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

The process where oceanic crust slides under another plate and is melted is called ___________.

• seafloor spreading

• subduction

• continental drift

• recycling

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What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• strike slip

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The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by

• the rotation of the Earth.

• convection currents in the Asthenosphere

• the gravity of the iron-nickel core.

• the Moho discontinuity.

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In some areas of the world, like California and Japan, earthquakes are a common occurrence. How can this best be explained?

• The strong ocean currents are undermining both areas causing earthquakes.

• Both areas are located near the edge of the Pacific Ocean, the unstable sand causes earthquakes.

• Both areas are subjected to strong ocean wind and waves that causes earthquakes.

• Both areas are on the boundary of active plates, the motion of the plates causes earthquakes.

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Observe this diagram of a plate boundary. One statement BEST describes what is happening. It is that

• the oceanic crust is melting.

• the denser ceanic crust is subducting under the less dense oceanic crust

• volcanic islands are forming.

• the tectonic plates are moving away from each other.

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Geologists have long recognized that earthquakes are not randomly distributed on Earth but occur in concentrated areas that coincide with __________ and provide evidence for the theory of ___________ .

• mountain ranges; fault zones.

• continental borders; supercontinents.

• plate boundaries; plate tectonics

• areas of liquid magma; sea floor spreading.
  

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The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by a shift in two plates that pushed one section of the sea floor under another section of the sea floor by 5 meters. What type of boundary is this?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• metamorphic

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