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Chapter 5 Test Review Flashcards

1
Q

A large land mass surrounded by oceans or other land is called a __________.

A

Continent

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2
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A physical feature of the land is called a ______.

A

Landform

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3
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Examples of landforms include mountains and ______.

A

Plains

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4
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Valleys and canyons are examples of landforms shaped by _____.

A

Water

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5
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Mounds , called ___________, form where wind blows sand.

A

Sand dunes

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6
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The gently sloping edge of a continent that connects the shore to the sea is a ______________.

A

Continental shelf

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7
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Underwater mountains that run through an ocean floor is called a ______________.

A

Trench

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8
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The name of a region of land where water drains into a river is a ________________________________.

A

Draining Basin

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9
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The movement of a river slows down as it nears the ocean, dropping deposits that form triangle-shaped landforms, called ______________.

A

River Delta

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10
Q

The outermost layer of earth is made of rock, called the __________.

A

Crust

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11
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Below the crust lies a layer of rock, is called the ______________.

A

Mantle

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12
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Rock in the mantle can move or slowly flow because of great pressure and high _____________________________.

A

Tempatures

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13
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The outer core is below the mantle and is made of mostly of melted ___________.

A

Iron

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14
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The sphere of solid material at earths center is called the ___________ ___________.

A

Inner Core

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15
Q

An overflow of water onto land that is normally is called a ________.

A

Flood

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16
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Flood waters usually come from heavy __________ or quickly melting snow.

A

Rain

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17
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A flood can be caused by ______________ or other natural forces.

A

Lightning

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18
Q

Plants and animals may lose their _______________ after a fire.

A

Habitats

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19
Q

The storm caused by a column of air arhat spins rapidly is called a ______________.

A

Tornado

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20
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Usually, tornados spin off of severe ________________ ________________.

A

Thunderstorms

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21
Q

Tornados are common in the __________________ ______________ region of the United States.

A

Great Plain

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22
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A swirling system of winds, huge walls of clouds, and pounding rains is called a _________________.

A

Hurricane

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23
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Hurricanes form over warm _____________.

A

Oceans

24
Q

Hurricanes can last for many days and stretch for hundreds of ________________________.

A

Kilometers

25
Q

Hurricanes are becoming more and more common in some places, possibly because of higher ___________________________.

A

Tempatures

26
Q

Rocks and water-soaked soil move quickly down hillside during a _____________________.

A

Landslide

27
Q

Tons of snow and ice move suddenly sown a mountain during a __________________.

A

Avalanche

28
Q

A cause of landslides is ______________, which pulls rocks from high places,to low places.

A

Gravity

29
Q

The slow process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces is called _____________________.

A

Weathering

30
Q

A rock is broken apart by _______________ weathering if the rock type does not change.

A

Physical

31
Q

If a rock contains iron, air, and water can react with iron through _________________*______________________.

A

Chemical weathering

32
Q

The weathering and removal of rock from one place to another is called _______________.

A

Erosion

33
Q

Erosion can be caused by ________________, wind, moving water, and gravity.

A

Glaciers

34
Q

When the Colorado River eroded the land around the river in Arizona the __________________________ was formed.

A

Grand Canyon

35
Q

Glaciers form in very cold places as thick ____________ of ice.

A

Sheets

36
Q

As the weight of the overlying ice increases, the glacier begins to _________/____________.

A

Move or Flow

37
Q

Deposits left behind glaciers are called, __________________________ __________________________.

A

Glacier debris

Glacial till

38
Q

The mounds that form where tills build up are called ______________.

A

Moraines

39
Q

Most processes change land slowly, but people can make ____________ changes.

A

Faster

40
Q

People change the land by _______________ it to get minerals, metals, or fuels.

A

Mining

41
Q

The large sections that Earths crust and upper mantle are called __________________.

A

Plates

42
Q

When plates slowly ram into each other, they can from bended Rock layers, called ___________.

A

Folds

43
Q

A long, narrow crack in earths crust is called a _______________ .

A

Fault

44
Q

Tall landforms caused by the folding or faulting are called ____________________

A

Mountains

45
Q

If the rock in Earths crust suddenly shakes, a ____________________ occurs.

A

Earthquake

46
Q

Underwater earthquakes can cause huge ocean waves called ___________________.

A

Tsunamis

47
Q

The source of an earthquake creates _____________________ _____________ that travel outwards.

A

Seismic Waves

48
Q

A tool that graphs seismic waves as wavy lines is called a ____________________.

A

Seismograph

49
Q

Earths waves travel at different ____________________ along Earths _________________ and ________________ Earths Interior.

A

Speed

Surface

Through

50
Q

A mountain that forms around an opening in Earths crust is a ______________.

A

Volcano

51
Q

Most volcanoes form near _________________ edges.

A

Plates

52
Q

A volcanoes produces melted rock, called _____________, which erupts into the air as ________________.

A

Magma

Lava

53
Q

Some volcanoes form in places in Earths crust, called _________________________.

A

Hotspots

54
Q

In the. Pacific Ocean, an example of volcanoes that formed over a hotspot is the ________________ Islands

A

Hawaiian

55
Q

How are physical and chemical weathering different

A

They are different because physical weathering involves rocks breaking through contact with atmospheric conditions, but chemical weathering breaks down rocks with the effect of certain chemicals.

56
Q

How are physical and chemical weathering the same

A

Physical and chemical weathering are similar because they bits made rocks and they both have sediments with cracks in them.

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