Master Geography with Fun Quizzes & Brain Teasers!

Pillow basalts attain their distinctive blob-like shapes because their parent lavas do not travel far prior to solidification. This is because the parent lavas ________.
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Select all that apply What type of metamorphism and deformation occur in a continental collision zone
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Some ocean basins promote rotary standing tide waves. In the Northern Hemisphere, the tide wave rotates __________ and the tidal current rotates _______.
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Dunes form when currents (wind or water move in one direction. Much like asymmetrical ripples, they have a gentle slope on the upstream side and a steep slope on the downstream side (slip face). Use the shape of this dune to select the statement that most accurately describes the wind direction in the image.i. The wind was blowing from left to right . ii. The wind direction cannot be determined iii. The wind was blowing from right to left.
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A(n) ______________________________ has igneous and metamorphic rocks below a surface known to have experienced erosion and/or nondeposition.
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A fast-moving flow consisting of a mixture of water and volcaniclastic debris is termed a ________. Group of answer choices pyroclastic flow hyaloclastite lahar flood basalt
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The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan killed approximately 21,000 people while the 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed approximately 316,000 people because ________. the earthquake in Haiti was a larger magnitude (released more energy) than the one in Japan the earthquake in Haiti generated a very large tsunami that killed most of the people the construction methods in Haiti were not as good as those used in Japan the population of Haiti was much greater than that of northern Japan where the earthquake occurred All of these were factors.
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Intrusive igeneous cooled and hardened ________ the Earth's surface, resulting in ________ grained rocks.
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Strong evidence for a very old Earth come from the ______ in North America, from which isotopic analysis of the rocks have yielded ages of over 3 billion years.
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If you are looking at a map of earthquake occurences, you are looking at the __________ of the earthquakes. Multiple Choice epicenters. hypocenters. ruptures. foci.
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The development of major winter storms in the midwest depends strongly on: ___________a. wind speed near the surface. b. wind speed aloft. c. amount of snow already on the ground. d. air mass contrasts. e. rainfall amounts during the previous fall.
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Kilauea and Mauna Loa are ________. small, basaltic cinder cones andesitic stratovolcanoes explosive, rhyolitic volcanoes basaltic shield volcanoes
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The northern hemisphere of Mars is flat (little variation in altitude) and is at a lower altitude than the southern hemisphere. These low-lying northern plains and outflow channels from the northern plains suggest what
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___________ was never proposed as evidence supporting the existence of pangaeaa) late paleozoic glacial featuresb) islands of precambrian rocks along the mid-atlantic ridgec) similar fossils on different continentsd) geometrical fit between south america and africa
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Climate changes that affect snow accumulation and glacier size in mountainous regions are a concern because ___.
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what would be the impact to the northeast region of the united states during a positive North Atlantic Oscillation
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As compared to aphanitic igneous rocks, phaneritic rocks are ____________. a. more felsic b. more mafic
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The majority of fresh liquid water within the Earth exists in ______. Group of answer choices rivers and streams atmospheric clouds pores within rock and sediment lakes
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In most earthquakes the Earth's crust cracks like porcelain. Stress builds up until a fracture forms at a depth of a few kilometers and the crust slips to relieve the stress. Some earthquakes, however, take place hundreds of kilometers down in the Earth's mantle, where high pressure makes rock so ductile that it flows instead of cracking, even under stress severe enough to deform it like putty. How can there be earthquakes at such depths
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Satellites can be used to study faults by ______. Multiple choice question. measuring the depth of the fault rupture analyzing subsurface rocks along faults comparing vegetation along faults before and after earthquakes analyzing changes in elevation before and after earthquakes
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Describe the geologic features associated with convergent plate boundaries. (Why does Chile have explosive volcanoes, deep earthquakes, ore deposits, good seafood, and great wine
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________ describes how an entire suite of silicate minerals can form from a single basaltic magma as it cools and crystallizes.
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Submarine canyons were most likely formed by: a. deposition of terrestrial sediment. b. earthquake activity. c. erosion by major rivers in the past. d. erosion by turbidity currents.
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If the sub-solar point is located at the Equator after the Southern Hemisphere's summer, which day of the year is it
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