GEOG&100 3a- Plate Tectonics and Landforms

Which of the following statements about landforms is FALSE?

The topset bed is the steepest face of a sand dune

What statement about rivers, glaciers, and tsunamis is FALSE?

Rivers erode and deposit its load, but glaciers only deposit their load

Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE regarding the map shown above?

The drainage divide between the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers is the Continental Divide

Which of the following statements about plate boundaries is TRUE?

An ocean trench is a convergent boundary where two ocean plates collidge, and one subducts under the other

Which of the following applies to the San Andreas Fault in California?

Transform Boundary

What type of sediment is shown in the picture above?

Glacial Till

Which of the following was NOT a piece of evidence that Alfred Wegner used to support his theory of Continental Drift?

Rocks the same distance on either side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge were of the same age and had the same magnetic orientation

Which of the following is an ENDOGENIC geologic process?

Volcanic Eruptions

Which statement is NOT true regarding the feature seen in the photo above? (Steep mountains with red jacketed climber)

It is a depositional landform

The dam shown above was breached ("removed") to account for what negative impact from dams?

Barrier to salmon spawning grounds upstream

What type of volcanos are Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier?

Composite Volcanoes

What type of geology is found in the shaded areas as shown in the maps above of India and the Pacific Northwest?

Flood Basalt

What type of volcano is shown in the diagram above? ('Runny' lava)

Shield Volcano

Which of the following is NOT one of the hazards associated with an earthquake?

Lahar

Which statement is TRUE?

Melting of continental ice sheets in North America led to subduction

What is the name of the feature shown above?

Horn

What feature is shown in the photo above? Glaciers start here.

Cirque

Which of the following would NOT be associated with the type of plate boundary shown above in the attached diagram?

Andes Mountains in South America

Where would one NOT find volcanoes?

Transform Plate Boundaries

Where in the Earth is slowly moving molten magma driving plate movements?

Asthenosphere

Which of the following is NOT associated with a mid-ocean ridge?

Convergent boundary

The large rock in the attached picture is called an "erratic" and is the result of _______________.

Glacial Processes

Which of the following is NOT true regarding drumlins?

The pointed or gentle slope of the drumlin points in the direction that the glacier came from (upstream)

Island Arcs are found at the edge of which plate boundary?

Oceanic vs Oceanic Subduction Zone

Which of the following is a divergent boundary?

Rift Valley in East Africa

Which of the following is associated with continental glaciers, rather than alpine glaciers?

Drumlins

Which of the following statements about the map shown above is FALSE?

Sea level was much higher during this glacial period

What is the feature seen from the air on the attached photo above? (Winding river?)

Oxbow Lake

Which of the following is NOT associated with glaciers?

Lahars

Which of the following does NOT apply to streams?

U-shape valleys

What is shown in the highlighted (colorized) sections of land along the west coast of North America as seen in the attached diagram?

Accreted Terrane

Which of the following is very large in size, but not very explosive, with lava flows rather than eruptions?

Shield Volcanoes

Which statement about rocks and weathering is FALSE?

Sedimentary rocks form when magma cools

The reversal of polarity as shown in the attached diagram is evidence of _________________?

Sea Floor Spread

Which of the following is a continental versus continental plate boundary?

The Himalayan Mountains in Asia

Which of the following does NOT apply to braided streams?

Deep river more common in the eastern United States

What two mountain ranges in the world would be found along the type of plate boundary shown in the diagram above?

The Cascades and the Andes

Physical weathering is more common in mid and high latitudes, as well as highland areas.

True

Aeolian processes are the dominant process in the deserts of the world.

False

The Hawaiian Islands are an example of Hot Spots?

True

Marble is a type of igneous rock?

False

Dams have many benefits despite the negative impacts from salmon spawning barriers, cutting the river off from its floodplain, and increases flooding upstream of the dam.

True

Tsunamis move very slowly in the ocean and are most dangerous to ships in the open ocean rather than areas along the coast.

False

When limestone rock dissolves in water that is an example of chemical weathering.

True

Scientists no longer recognize the supercontinent known as Pangaea.

False

Aeolian refers to wind driven processes and landforms.

True

In the Netherlands they increased the height of the levees in order to continue flood protection from levees, while maintaining the connection of the river and the floodplain?

False

The Andes Mountains were created at a convergent boundary of two continental plates?

False

Levees are effective for protecting from river flooding both upstream and downstream of the levee.

False