Chapter 5 Test Review

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Continent

Question 2

A physical feature of the land is called a ______.

Answer 2

Landform

Question 3

Examples of landforms include mountains and ______.

Answer 3

Plains

Question 4

Valleys and canyons are examples of landforms shaped by _____.

Answer 4

Water

Question 5

Mounds , called ___________, form where wind blows sand.

Answer 5

Sand dunes

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Continental shelf

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Trench

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Draining Basin

Question 9

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

Answer 9

River Delta

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Crust

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Mantle

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Tempatures

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Iron

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Inner Core

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Flood

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Rain

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Lightning

Question 18

Plants and animals may lose their _______________ after a fire.

Answer 18

Habitats

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Tornado

Question 20

Usually, tornados spin off of severe ________________ ________________.

Answer 20

Thunderstorms

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Great Plain

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Hurricane

Question 23

Hurricanes form over warm _____________.

Answer 23

Oceans

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Kilometers

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Tempatures

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Landslide

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Avalanche

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Gravity

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Weathering

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Physical

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Chemical weathering

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Erosion

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Glaciers

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Grand Canyon

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Sheets

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Move or Flow

Question 37

Deposits left behind glaciers are called, __________________________ __________________________.

Answer 37

Glacier debris Glacial till

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Moraines

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Faster

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Mining

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Plates

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Folds

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Fault

Question 44

Tall landforms caused by the folding or faulting are called ____________________

Answer 44

Mountains

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Earthquake

Question 46

Underwater earthquakes can cause huge ocean waves called ___________________.

Answer 46

Tsunamis

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Seismic Waves

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Seismograph

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Speed Surface Through

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Volcano

Question 51

Most volcanoes form near _________________ edges.

Answer 51

Plates

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Magma Lava

Question 53

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

Answer 53

Hotspots

Question 54

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

Answer 54

Hawaiian

Question 55

How are physical and chemical weathering different

Answer 55

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.

Question 56

How are physical and chemical weathering the same

Answer 56

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