Name:_____________________
Semester Exam Review Part Two!
Section Three: Use your notes (or textbook) to answer the
following:
A
B
C
D
1. What layer of the Earth is A pointing to?
2. What layer of the Earth is B pointing to?
3. What layer of the Earth is C pointing to?
4. What layer of the Earth is D pointing to?
5. What layer of the Earth is made up of melted iron and nickel, explain
why.
6. What layer of the Earth is made of solid iron and nickel, explain why.
Match the following diagrams with the type of heat transfer they
represent:
A.
B.
C.
7. What type of heat transfer is A representing, explain why?
8. What type of heat transfer is B representing, explain why?
9. What type of heat transfer is C representing, explain why?
10. In which layer of Earth do convection currents occur?
11. Is this statement true or false, heat and pressure increase as you head to
the center of the Earth.
12. Finish this sentence: Most scientists rejected Wegener’s Theory of
Continental Drift because it failed to explain
13. List Wegener’s evidence for continental drift?
14. Which type of crust is thicker, oceanic or continental?
15. Which type of crust is less dense, oceanic or continental?
16. What is the movement of the ocean floor on either side of a mid-ocean
ridge called?
17. What type of plate boundary causes sea-floor spreading?
Analyze the diagram and then answer the following questions
18. What does point A represent?
19. What does point B represent?
20. What is happening at point B?
21. What is happening at point C?
22. What type of plate boundary is happening around point C?
23. What is happening at point D?
24. What are the differences between and normal and a reverse fault?
25. What type of faults create fault block mountains?
26. What does the “P” in P wave stand for?
27. What does the “S” in S wave stand for?
28. What type of seismic wave can only travel though solids?
29. What type of seismic waves are the most destructive?
30. What type of seismic wave is the fastest?
Use the Diagram to answer the following:
A
B
31. Which block is the hanging wall? Why?
32. Which block is the footwall? Why?
33. What type of fault is the diagram?
34. What scale measures the size of seismic waves as measured by a
seismograph? (It is the most common scale)
Label which type of stress each diagram is representing, write your answer
below each diagram:
35. __________________
36. _________________ 37. ____________________
Use the diagram to answer the following:
B
A
D
C
38. What is A pointing to?
39. What is B pointing to?
40. What is C pointing to?
41. If an earthquake has occurred on the ocean floor and the ocean is
receding, what should you do and why?
42. What causes earthquakes to happen?
43. What is the difference between magma and lava?
44. List the characteristics of shield volcanoes.
45. What types of volcano’s can have pyroclastic flow?
46. Why are “composite” volcanoes called composite volcanoes?
47. How are calderas and craters related to each other?
48. What makes hot spot volcanoes different then other volcanoes?
49. Where is the ring of fire?
Label the following volcanoes; write your answers in the line provided:
50. ____________________
51. ___________________
Label the parts of a volcano:
53.
55.
54.
56.
52. ________________
57. List all the properties of minerals.
58. Are minerals organic or inorganic?
59. What is a minerals streak and how do you test for it?
60. A sedimentary rock that has been changed by heat and pressure would turn into a
_________________
61. How are minerals and rocks related?
62. What type of rock is most likely to contain fossils?
63. What type of rock is made from the cooling of molten material?
64. What type of rock can be foliated?
65. Explain how an igneous rock can become a sedimentary rock.