2nd Quarter EQT Review

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  1. What causes the lithospheric plates to move?
  1. How much do the lithospheric plates move each year?
  1. What are created/caused by the movement of the lithospheric/tectonic plates?
  1. The lithospheric plates ride on top of the ______.
  1. What are the 3 types of plate boundaries? What movement happens at each?
  1. What evidence supports the theory of plate tectonics and continental drift?
  1. What is a subduction zone?
  1. What is sea-floor spreading?
  1. Describe how the 3 types of mountains are formed.
  1. What is the difference between tension, shearing and compression?
  1. Describe the direction of the footwall and the hanging wall in reverse and normal faults.
  1. Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur at ______.
  1. What is elastic rebound? What does it cause?
  1. Label the epicenter and the focus.
  1. The strength (magnitude) of an earthquake is measured using the ______.
  1. The intensity of an earthquake is measured using the ______.
  1. What is deformation?
  1. What is the rock cycle?
  1. List the three types of rock and describe how they are formed.
  1. Explain weathering, erosion and deposition.
  1. What is the difference between intrusive and extrusive igneous rock?
  1. Explain compaction and cementation.

  1. What is the difference between destructive and constructive forces that change the Earth’s surface?

Label the following activities as either a constructive (C) or a destructive (D) force.

  1. _____ - erosion
  2. _____ - weathering
  3. _____ - mountain building
  4. _____ - volcanic activity
  5. _____ - deforestation
  6. _____ - strip mining
  7. _____ - deposition of sediment
  1. What is the difference between natural forces and manmade forces?
  1. On the Moh’s Scale of Hardness, what is the softest mineral? The hardest?
  1. If you can see through a mineral it has the special property of ______. Name a mineral that has this property.______.
  1. A mineral that attracts iron has the special property of ______.
  1. A mineral that glows under a black light has the special property of ______.
  1. A mineral that fizzes when acid is dropped on it has the special property of ______

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  1. What are the seven different ways minerals can be identified by?
  1. What is the difference between cleavage and fracture?

58. Fossils found on different continents helped explain the theory of ______.

59. What process created these changes?

60. Earthquakes are defined by their ______and ______.

61. What causes lithospheric plates to move?

62. Label the following volcanoes according to their shape and structure:

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