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| The boundary where Earth's plates are spreading apart is what kind of plate boundary? |
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| Earthquakes are most likely to occur near |
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| areas where two tectonic plates meet |
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| On most of Earth's land surface what is the most important agent in moving weathered rock fragments downhill? |
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| An extremely long ocean wave created by an underwater earthquake that may travel hundreds of kilometers per hour is a |
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| Which of the following are not results of post glaciation? |
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| What kind of rocks result when rocks eroded from higher elevations (mountains, hills, plains) accumulate at lower elevations (such as swamps and ocean bottoms)? |
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| Less then five percent of eroded sediment will ever reach the sea. |
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| Plate tectonics theory has been widely accepted since the late nineteenth century. |
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| The very slow, gradual movement of material downslope is slumping. |
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| Which of the following is the least dynamic? |
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| In what kind of plate boundary is material from the crust very slowly forced downward, back into the mantle? |
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| During the Ice Ages worldwide sea level was lower than at present. |
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| The rock in the interior of Earth's surface that carries slow moving convective currents is known as the |
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| Earthquakes tend to do the most damage in economically advanced countries. |
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| have speeds porportionate to wavelength |
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| might erupt lava that cools to form basalt |
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| Terminal moraines mark the beginning point of a glacier where ice accumulates. |
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| Landslides happen mainly during or following heavy rainfall. |
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| Leaching is a major cause of the ocean's salinity. |
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| Loess is a deposit of wind-blown silt. |
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| can ocure at divergent plate boundaries |
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| ________ are like a river carrying sediment from areas where it is eroded by waves and depositing it where breaking waves lose energy to carry it, usually in deeper water. |
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| The place where Earth's crust actually moves is the ________ of an earthquake. |
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| Plate movements across Earth's surface are believed to be caused by convection in the mantle. |
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| Earthquakes are most likely to occur |
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| where two tectonic plates join |
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| The world's longest mountain range is |
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| The San Andreas Fault, where two plates slide past one another, is a famous example of what kind of plate boundary? |
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| The study of the shape of Earth's surface and the processes that modify it is |
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