Midterm 2024 Earth Systems Review

What effect does acid rain have on rocks?

• It physically breaks rocks into smaller pieces

• It reacts with minerals in rocks, causing them to dissolve or weaken

• It freezes water in rock cracks and causes physical weathering

• It deposits new layers of sediment on the rocks

How do glaciers contribute to erosion?

• By melting and creating lakes.

• By picking up and transporting sediments through plucking.

• By forming rivers that erode the landscape.

• By creating waterfalls.

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun

• Magnetic Pole Reversal

• Convection currents in the mantle

• Faults in Mountain Ranges

What most likely caused a landslide after heavy rainfall on a steep hillside?

• Wet and drenched soil and a steep slope

• Dry soil and flat ground

• Cold temperatures and high winds

• Human buildings and gentle slope

Tsunamis are caused by

• underwater disturbances such as earthquakes, landslides, and volcanoes.

• wind and the gravitational pull of the moon.

The place where an earthquake originates inside the Earth's surface is called...

• Epicenter

• Focus

• Underground

• Crust

Made of rock and are located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

• Comet

• Meteor

• Asteroid

It is made of ice, dust, and small rocky particles. It is found in the Kuiper Belt.

• Comet

• Meteor

• Asteroid

The Nebular Hypothesis is the scientific explanation for the formation of __________.

• the universe.

• meteor showers.

• our solar system.

• clouds.

A cloud of gas and dust in space is called __________.

• a nebula

• a space haze

• an asteroid belt

• a galaxy