Unit 2 Exam Review

Question 1

Convergent boundary

Answer 1

When 2 plates push together and collide, creating deep ridges

Question 2

Divergent boundary

Answer 2

When 2 plates pull away from eachother, creating ridges

Question 3

Transform boundary

Answer 3

When plates slide past eachother sideways, causing earthquakes

Question 4

Tectonic plate

Answer 4

A massive slab of solid rock floating on the earths mantle

Question 5

Weathering

Answer 5

The process of something being worn down because of long exposure to the atmosphere

Question 6

Erosion

Answer 6

The gradual destruction or diminution of something

Question 7

Lava

Answer 7

Hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano

Question 8

Magma

Answer 8

Hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earths crust

Question 9

Deposition

Answer 9

The laying down of sediment carried by wind, water, and ice

Question 10

Climate change

Answer 10

The long-term changes in global tempatures in the atmosphere

Question 11

Coniferous

Answer 11

Forests that consist of mostly conifers, which are trees that grow needles and pinecones

Question 12

Deciduous

Answer 12

A tree or a shrub anually shedding its leaves

Question 13

Sedimentary

Answer 13

A rock that is formed from sediments deposited by water or air

Question 14

Igneous

Answer 14

A rock formed from cooled magma or lava

Question 15

Metamorphic

Answer 15

A rock formed from a rock that has undergone transformation by heat, pressure, and certain fluids

Question 16

Humus

Answer 16

The organic component of soil, by the decomposition of leaves and other plants

Question 17

Climate graph

Answer 17

Displays yearly tempature and precipiation statistics for a certain location

Question 18

Moraine

Answer 18

A mass of rocks and sediment carried down and deposited by a glacier

Question 19

Kettle lake

Answer 19

A kettle is a depression or hole in a plain formed by retreating glaciers

Question 20

Drumlin

Answer 20

A low oval mound or small hill

Question 21

Typical landscape that you would expect to find at a convergent boundary?

Answer 21

Mountain ranges and complex geological structures

Question 22

Typical landscape that you would expect to find at a divergent boundary?

Answer 22

Submarine mountain ranges called oceanic spreading ridges.

Question 23

Where in canada is a higher risk for earthquakes?

Answer 23

The pacific coast

Question 24

What happens in a rock cycle diagram?

Answer 24

Magma/lava, cooling, igneous rock, erosion and weathering, sediments, sedimentary rock, heat, pressure and certain fluids, metamorphic rock.

Question 25

Ways in which glaciers impacted our landscape in Canada.

Answer 25

Valleys were widened, moraines were sculpted and bedrock was smoothed.