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Course Introduction
This course explores the scientific principles behind natural disasters, including earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, floods, and tsunamis. Students will examine the causes, effects, and geographic distribution of these phenomena, as well as the technological and societal responses to mitigate their impact. Case studies of significant historical disasters are integrated to illustrate the social, economic, and environmental consequences, allowing students to critically analyze risk assessment, disaster preparedness, response strategies, and recovery processes. The course encourages interdisciplinary understanding by drawing on concepts from geology, meteorology, engineering, and public policy.
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Essentials of Geology 5th Edition by Stephen Marshak
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Chapter 1: The Earth in Context
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Q1) An important contribution made by Copernicus is his (correct)assertion that the
A)Earth is spherical
B)Sun is the center of the whole Universe
C)Sun is the center of Earth's orbit
D)Earth is the center of the Universe
Answer: C
Q2) According to the Expanding Universe theory,our Universe is ________.
A)expanding only
B)contracting only
C)not moving at all
D)contracting and expanding
Answer: A
Q3) Why was Pluto removed from the list of planets in our solar system?
Answer: Pluto has not cleared its orbit of all debris and thus no longer qualifies as a planet according to the new definition.
Q4) Draw a cross-section of Earth showing its layers.Label the layers and list the average composition of the layers.
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Chapter 2: The Way the Earth Works: Plate Tectonics
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Q1) The discovery of seafloor spreading finally provided a mechanism for ________.
A)subduction zones
B)continental drift
C)transgressions
D)normal faulting
Answer: B
Q2) At a subduction zone,the down-going (subducting)plate ________.
A)is always composed of continental lithosphere
B)is always composed of oceanic lithosphere
C)may be composed of either oceanic or continental lithosphere
D)is composed entirely of asthenosphere
Answer: B
Q3) The rate of seafloor spreading exactly matches the rate of ________.
A)ocean subsidence
B)transgression
C)subduction
D)erosion of the seafloor
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Patterns in Nature: Minerals
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Q1) Diamonds are usually found in ________.
A)graphite
B)kimberlite
C)metamorphic rocks
D)sedimentary rocks
Answer: B
Q2) Why are minerals often referred to as "the building blocks of Earth"?
Answer: Earth is made of many different types of rocks,and rocks are composed of a mixture of minerals in various forms.Thus,the smallest "building block" of Earth is actually the mineral.
Q3) Which of the following is a mineral?
A)petroleum (oil),which is a liquid
B)cubic zirconia,which is a synthetic diamond substitute
C)ice,which is water in the solid state
D)obsidian,a type of volcanic glass
Answer: C
Q4) Draw and label a silicon-oxygen tetrahedron.
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Q5) Explain why a cubic zirconia is NOT a mineral.
Answer: Cubic zirconia are man-made and therefore not considered a mineral.
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Chapter 4: Up From the Inferno: Magma and Igneous Rocks
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Q1) Injecting hot fudge into ice cream and causing the ice cream to melt is an appropriate analogy for which cause of magma melt?
A)melting due to a decrease in pressure
B)melting due to an addition of volatiles
C)melting due to heat transfer from rising magma
D)melting due to an increase in pressure
Q2) Viscosity does NOT depend on ________.
A)temperature
B)volatile content
C)silica content
D)volume of the magma
Q3) The composition of magma will ________ when it erupts and turns into lava.
A)remain the same
B)become more felsic
C)become more mafic
D)have more silica
Q4) Describe the difference between the relative viscosity of felsic versus mafic magma and how this affects the rate of flow of each type.
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Chapter 5: The Wrath of Vulcan: Volcanic Eruptions
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Q1) Which of the following poses the greatest hazard to human life associated with volcanoes?
A)flowing lava
B)volcanic gas
C)falling ash
D)pyroclastic flows
Q2) If a volcano was actively releasing a large amount of volcanic gas and then abruptly stopped,what might happen to the volcano in the near future?
A)It will become extinct because the magma supply has been rapidly withdrawn.
B)It will erupt effusively because the supply of volcanic gas has dissipated.
C)It will erupt explosively because the volcanic gases have no way to escape slowly.
D)It will erupt effusively because the gases have made the magma less viscous.
Q3) Felsic magma generally forms in ________.
A)the mantle
B)mid-ocean ridges
C)continental crust
D)oceanic crust
Q4) Describe how an explosive volcanic eruption can create a global cooling event.
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Chapter 6: Pages of Earth S Past: Sedimentary Rocks
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Q1) Topset,foreset,and bottomset beds together are indicative of ________ environments.
A)alluvial fan
B)lake bottom
C)delta
D)deep-marine
Q2) Describe the difference between lithification and diagenesis.
Q3) Which of the following is FALSE? As compared to arkose,quartz sandstone
A)contains more angular grains
B)does not contain significant amounts of feldspar
C)is likely to be found farther away from weathering granitic source rock
D)is considered to be more compositionally mature
Q4) The elevation of a mountain is slowly decreased by weathering and ________.
A)lithification
B)sedimentation
C)erosion
D)deposition
Q5) In which of the following three basin types might you be able to find oil forming and why? Rift basin,passive-margin basin,and foreland basin.
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Chapter 7: Metamorphism: A Process of Change
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Q1) Foliated rock is created by a preferential stress oriented ________ the foliation. A)the same way as B)diagonally to C)perpendicular to D)parallel to
Q2) Describe the resulting metamorphism that occurs next to an igneous intrusion.
Q3) A buried body of shale is subjected to differential stress,causing clay minerals to realign and produce slate.This is an example of ________.
A)diagenesis
B)erosion
C)metamorphism
D)weathering
Q4) Metamorphic grade describes the intensity or degree of metamorphism.The metamorphic grade of a rock is determined mainly by the temperature and amount of recrystallization or neocrystallization to which a rock is subjected.List the following rocks in order from low-grade to high-grade metamorphic rocks and then describe the changes seen in the suite of rocks as the grade is increased: gneiss,slate,schist,phyllite,and migmatite.
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Chapter 8: A Violent Pulse: Earthquakes
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Q1) Why do deep-focus earthquakes occur along convergent plate boundaries? Why do they not occur along divergent or transform boundaries?
Q2) The ________the earthquake,the less severe the damage will be.
A)larger the magnitude of B)shorter the duration of C)farther you are from D)closer you are to
Q3) Earthquakes can often produce ________ by breaking gas lines.
A)landslides
B)flooding
C)sinkholes
D)fires
Q4) ________ occur(s)when earthquakes causes pore pressure to increase,which in turn causes grains to separate and compact.
A)Liquefaction
B)Aftershocks
C)Normal faults
D)Landslides
Q5) Explain why tsunamis are NOT tidal waves.
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Chapter 9: Crags, cracks, and Crumples: Crustal
Deformation and Mountain Building
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Q1) ________ occurs when rocks are pulled apart.
A)Compression
B)Tension
C)Shear
D)Pressure
Q2) Normal,reverse,and thrust are all examples of ________ faults.
A)strike-slip
B)dip-slip
C)oblique-slip
D)lateral
Q3) Erosional processes work to remove material from mountains;thus,overtime the topography will become less ________.
A)rugged
B)weathered
C)flat-lying
D)stretched
Q4) Explain how the mountains in the Basin and Range Province were formed?
Q5) Describe the differences between brittle and ductile deformation.
Q6) Explain what the ultimate fate is of all mountains on Earth?
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Chapter 10: Deep Time: How Old Is Old
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Q1) In the 1800s Lord Kelvin estimated the age of Earth,utilizing a number of assumptions.Which wrong assumption was the primary reason why his estimate (approximately 20 million years)was so wildly inaccurate?
A)that Earth was once hotter than it presently is today
B)that Earth may have been molten when first formed
C)that no new heat has been added to Earth since its initial formation
D)that Earth would lose heat over time through radiation into outer space
Q2) Radiometric dates applied to sedimentary rocks produce ages that ________.
A)are just as accurate as when the technique is applied to igneous rocks
B)are too young (postdate sedimentary deposition)
C)are too old (predate sedimentary deposition)
D)represent the time the sediments became lithified
Q3) A geologist in South Dakota finds an assemblage of dinosaur bones in an outcrop for the Hilltown Formation,and his colleague in China discovers an assemblage of bones from a different dinosaur in the Liaoning Formation.What can be said about the two formations?
A)They are no younger than Cretaceous in age.
B)They are no older than Jurassic.
C)They are the exact same age.
D)They are no younger than Triassic in age.
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Chapter 11: A Biography of Earth
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Q1) What caused the buildup of oxygen in the atmosphere at roughly 2.5 Ga?
Q2) ________ provide evidence of past life,and thus help geologists understand how life,and the environments they lived in,changed throughout Earth's history.
A)Igneous rocks
B)Fossils
C)Faults
D)Strata
Q3) Which of the Appalachian orogenies likely formed the largest mountain range?
A)Taconic
B)Caledonian
C)Alleghanian
D)Acadian
Q4) The Hadean was a time in Earth history when ________.
A)the first abundant shelly organisms appeared in the fossil record
B)Earth's interior was so hot that a solid outer crust was quickly remelted
C)stable continental interiors,termed cratons,first formed
D)the dinosaurs appeared and came to dominate large-scale terrestrial life
Q5) Describe how fossils can be used to interpret the geologic history of an area.
Q6) How were mammals able to take over as the dominant class of organisms on Earth?
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Chapter 12: Riches in Rock: Energy and Mineral Resources
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Q1) The principal concern with storing nuclear waste is ________.
A)allowing sufficient time for short-lived radioactive atoms to decay
B)ensuring access to groundwater to keep the waste cool
C)keeping spent fuel rods separated from other waste
D)making biodegradable waste containers
Q2) Coal is formed when heat and pressure alter deposits of ancient ________.
A)kerogen
B)plankton
C)terrestrial plants
D)tar
Q3) Nonrenewable resources are used much more prevalently today despite knowing that they pollute and will run out in the future.Why then are we NOT using more renewable resources?
A)Nonrenewables are not cost-effective to use.
B)Nonrenewables are complicated to use.
C)Nonrenewable use depends on location.
D)Nonrenewables have their own drawbacks.
Q4) Describe how oil is formed.Make sure to address what organisms must accumulate,in what environment they must be deposited,and how the oil window effects the formation.
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Chapter 13: Unsafe Ground: Landslides and Other Mass Movements
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Q1) Which of the following increases the risk of mass movement?
A)adding a small amount of moisture to loose,dry sediment
B)waves breaking before they reach sea cliffs
C)flooding the sediment with water to the point of saturation
D)reducing the grade of the slope
Q2) Slumps typically arrive ________ at the bottom of a slope.
A)vertically stacked
B)intact
C)flattened
D)jumbled
Q3) The principal difference between a debris flow and a debris slide is ________.
A)the shape of the path taken by the moving mass
B)the grain size of the moving mass
C)that a debris flow contains abundant water,whereas a debris slide is dry
D)that a debris flow contains pyroclastic debris from a volcanic eruption
Q4) Which of the following would NOT be a failure trigger?
A)shaking from earthquakes
B)undercutting a slope
C)large amounts of time
D)adding some water to a slope
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Chapter 14: Streams and Floods: The Geology of Running Water
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Q1) What will happen to a stream if the local base level is increased,for instance,by adding a dam to the river?
Q2) A(n)________ is formed when a meander neck is cut off from the rest of the river.
A)oxbow lake
B)cut bank
C)point bar
D)floodplain
Q3) ________ increases the volume of water in and decreases the lag time of a flood.
A)Establishment of natural levees
B)Urbanization of an area
C)Building a floodway
D)Establishing farms
Q4) Dead zones occur due to a lack of ________ in the oceans.
A)sediments
B)phosphorus
C)oxygen
D)nitrogen
Q5) Name and describe two methods to mitigate flood hazards.
Q6) What is a stream? How is it similar/different from a river or a creek?
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Chapter 15: Restless Realm: Oceans and Coasts
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Q1) If a beach is in an east-west orientation and the waves are approaching the shore from a southeasterly direction,in which direction will the longshore drift be?
A)northern
B)western
C)southern
D)eastern
Q2) Longshore current is the result of waves ________.
A)coming in perpendicular to the shore
B)coming into shore at an angle
C)created during large storms
D)retreating back to the ocean
Q3) Waves are created by ________.
A)tides
B)the Moon
C)the crust
D)wind
Q4) Describe what thermohaline circulation is and how it works.
Q5) Describe what longshore drift is and how it works.
Q6) Explain why it is not a good idea to build on barrier islands.
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Chapter 16: A Hidden Reserve: Groundwater
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Q1) You are attempting to calculate the discharge of groundwater in the Marshak Aquifer.The measured height of the water table in Well A is 300 and is 175 m in Well B,and the wells are 15,000 m apart.The Marshak Aquifer is composed of fine-grained sandstone with a hydraulic conductivity of 3×10<sup> - </sup> m/s,and a cross-sectional area of 2 m².What is the discharge of the Marshak Aquifer?
A)0.5× 10<sup> -7</sup> m/s
B)6.0× 10<sup> 5</sup> m/s
C)5.0× 10 <sup>5</sup> m/s
D)5.0× 10 <sup>-7</sup> m/s
Q2) Which of the following statements about the water table is FALSE?
A)The water table will mimic the topography in an area.
B)The top surface of the saturated zone is the water table.
C)A permanent river lies at or below the water table.
D)The water table is also called the potentiometric surface.
Q3) Hot groundwater is mineralized because ________.
A)minerals cannot precipitate in hot water
B)the hot water dissolves minerals
C)cold water cannot dissolve minerals
D)it runs through layers containing salts
Q4) List and describe one possible effect from overpumping.
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Chapter 17: Dry Regions: The Geology of Deserts
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Q1) What is a desert? Explain how a desert could be formed at one of the poles.
Q2) Which of the following is an example of wind erosion?
A)a large boulder sitting on the side of a dry streambed
B)large piles of sand that move across the desert floor
C)a fan-shaped pile of sediment at the mouth of a canyon
D)deeply eroded arroyos that cover the desert floor
Q3) Areas with relatively scarce sand and constantly shifting winds will develop ________ dunes.
A)star
B)barchans
C)parabolic
D)longitudinal
Q4) ________ forms when dust carrying microbes sticks to the outside of a rock and forms an iron oxide-rich covering.
A)Desert varnish
B)Desert pavement
C)A ventifact
D)A lag deposit
Q5) Describe the differences between lag deposits and desert pavement.
Q6) What is the dominant erosional force in deserts,wind or water? Why?
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Chapter 18: Amazing Ice: Glaciers and Ice Ages
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Q1) The loss of rain forests would ________ the greenhouse gases,thereby ________ global warming.
A)increase;increasing B)increase;decreasing C)decrease;increasing D)decrease;decreasing
Q2) A(n)________ in eustatic sea level is ultimately the result of a ________ event. A)increase;global cooling B)increase;local uplift
C)decrease;subsidence D)decrease;global cooling
Q3) An intermediate product in the transformation of snow to glacial ice is ________. A)firn
B)deposition
C)ablation
D)terminus
Q4) Explain why the deposits made by glacial outwash are stratified.
Q5) List and describe one short-term cause for glaciations.
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Chapter 19: Global Change in the Earth System
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Q1) ________ is a change in atmospheric conditions over minutes to days,whereas ________ is the average of conditions over years to decades.
A)Climate;weather
B)Weather;climate
C)Storm formation;hurricane formation
D)Global cooling;global warming
Q2) A crater in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula may be the result of an impact that brought about the extinction of numerous dinosaur species at the end of the ________ Period.
A)Silurian
B)Jurassic
C)Cretaceous
D)Tertiary
Q3) As more ice in the Arctic Ocean melts,what effect does this have on the water?
A)Heat absorption increases as the albedo increases.
B)Heat absorption increases as the albedo decreases.
C)Heat absorption decreases as the albedo decreases.
D)There is no effect on heat absorption.
Q4) List and describe one way humans have impacted Earth.
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Chapter 20: Interlude A: Rock Groups
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Q1) A(n)________ of minerals forms a rock.
A)compilation
B)aggregate
C)mass
D)assembly
Q2) Geologists sometimes use analytical equipment to help identify rocks.One commonly used machine is the electron microprobe,which focuses a beam of electrons on a sample to determine ________.
A)the amount of radioactive minerals
B)how atoms are arranged
C)the atomic weight
D)the chemical composition
Q3) Where would you expect to find metamorphic rocks forming?
A)deep inside a mountain range
B)inside a lava flow on Hawaii
C)under the water at the mid-ocean ridge
D)at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea
Q4) How is a thin section made,and what is it used for?
Q5) List the three main rock groups and give a brief description of how each is formed.
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Chapter 21: Interlude B: A Surface Veneer: Sediments and Soils
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Q1) The zone of leaching is the area in which ________.
A)weathered bedrock forms a soil horizon
B)organic matter gathers to create a soil horizon
C)minerals are precipitated and added to soil
D)minerals are dissolved and removed from soil
Q2) Describe how physical and chemical weathering can work together to break down rocks.
Q3) Large amounts of ________ speed up decomposition and provide more organic material for the soil.
A)microbes
B)sediment
C)quartz
D)time
Q4) Which of the following is a type of physical weathering?
A)thermal expansion
B)dissolution
C)oxidation
D)hydration
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Q5) Describe the difference between sediment and soil.
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Chapter 22: Interlude C: The Rock Cycle
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Q1) Describe how energy from the Sun and gravity are responsible for many sedimentary processes,such as weathering,erosion,deposition,and so on.
Q2) Burial of rocks can subject them to high heat and pressure,which can alter the ________ of the rocks.
A)mineral assemblage
B)elemental composition
C)chemical content
D)crystal fractionation
Q3) What must happen in order to transform a metamorphic rock into a sedimentary rock?
A)formation of a volcano
B)mountain building
C)burial of metamorphic rocks
D)subduction of oceanic crust
Q4) Why are there so few Precambrian-age rocks found on Earth?
Q5) Describe how the rock cycle is linked to plate tectonics.
Q6) Describe the changes that occur (i.e. ,what happens to the rock)along a pathway through the rock cycle as seen below:
Sedimentary rock Igneous rock Sedimentary rock Metamorphic rock
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Q1) The time it takes for a seismic wave to travel from the focus to a seismometer is called the ________.
A)wave front time
B)P-S wave arrival distance
C)travel time
D)seismic ray time
Q2) Which layer of Earth has the highest density?
A)outer core
B)inner core
C)mantle
D)crust
Q3) Why would the gravity anomaly over a deep-ocean trench be negative?
A)because the bathymetry of the trench dips very far below sea level
B)because the crust being pulled into the trench is less dense than sediments above
C)because water fills the space above the subducting slab and is much less dense than rock
D)because the buoyant magma created at the subduction zones is less dense than the rock
Q4) Why does a mountain show a positive gravity anomaly?
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Chapter 24: Interlude E: Memories of Past Life: Fossils and Evolution
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Q1) Which of the following scenarios would most likely result in fossilization?
A)Leaves fall to the forest floor during winter.
B)A dinosaur walks across an outcrop of sandstone.
C)A jellyfish is buried by a submarine landslide.
D)Plankton get washed onto the beach during a storm.
Q2) What is natural selection?
A)the theory that all life began in shallow coastal pools of protein-rich water
B)the theory that all life on Earth has evolved from single-celled organisms
C)the idea that animals who share specialized characteristics are part of a genus
D)the passing on of beneficial characteristics so that the most adaptable survive
Q3) Why is the preservation potential of feathers so low?
A)because birds usually die in dry environments
B)because feathers do not contain hard parts
C)because feathers are very small and thus are not well preserved
D)because birds die in forests,areas with high oxygen levels
Q4) Explain why the fossil record is incomplete.
Q5) Explain how evolution by natural selection occurs.
Q6) How is mass extinction different from extinction?
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Chapter 25: Interlude F: An Introduction to Landscapes and the Hydrologic Cycle
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Q1) ________ energy is the cause of uplift of mountain ranges.
A)Internal
B)External
C)Conductive
D)Gravitational
Q2) Why do scientists believe there was once liquid water on Mars?
A)Depositional landforms are seen on Mars but not erosional landforms.
B)Landforms such as river channels and sandbars are seen on Mars.
C)Large depressions are seen on Mars that were once large lakes.
D)Evidence of marine life has been found in the rocks on Mars.
Q3) The difference in elevation in an area is called ________.
A)erosion
B)deposition
C)relief
D)landform
Q4) Which of the following best describes the hydrologic cycle?
A)the movement of water through the ground to form aquifers
B)the cycle that water passes through when going from solid to liquid to gas
C)the circular motion due to density differences created when water boils
D)the movement of Earth's water through a series of reservoirs
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