5 Written Questions

1. fan-shaped deposit formed where a fast flowing stream flattens, slows, and spreads typically at the exit of a canyon
2. a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone
3. - The earthquake had a "strong" moment magnitude of 6.7, but the ground acceleration was one of the highest ever instrumentally recorded in an urban area in North America
4. partially molten layer beneath the lithosphere; weak zone in upper mantle
5. plates slide by each other horizontally

5 Matching Questions

1. frontal precipitation
2. Diastrophism
3. Temperature inversion
4. Moraines
5. Hurricanes/typhoons

1. a Any precipitation attributable to the action of a front; used mainly to distinguish this type from air-mass precipitation and orographic precipitation
2. b left behind when glaciers receded
3. c a deviation from the normal change of an atmospheric property with altitude
4. d non-frontal synoptic scale low-pressure system over tropical or sub-tropical waters with organized convection (i.e. thunderstorm activity) and definite cyclonic surface wind circulation
5. e process by which large continental areas undergo slight deformation

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. things that are catching (fashion, music, etc)
   1. hierarchial diffusion
   2. relocation diffusion
   3. Diffusion
   4. contagious diffusion
2. plates move toward each other
   1. convergent plate boundary
   2. transform plate boundary
   3. contagious diffusion
   4. Divergent plate boundary
3. great sea wave; fast moving
   1. Tsunami
   2. Delta
   3. Alluvium
   4. Loess
4. soil at or below the freezing point of water (0 °C or 32 °F) for two or more years
   1. Stream load
   2. Moraines
   3. Permafrost
   4. Delta
5. geologic term referring to the solid matter carried by a stream
   1. Delta
   2. Moraines
   3. Permafrost
   4. Stream load

5 True/False Questions

1. Shield volcanoes → explode violently

   True        False

2. land breeze → A breeze that blows from the land toward open water

   True        False

3. sea breezes → a wind from the sea that develops over land near coasts

   True        False

4. chemical weathering → physical disintegration of earth's material (ex. frost action, root action, salt crystals)

   True        False

5. composite volcanoes → hard to recognize

   True        False