5 Written Questions

1. Most trees in these forest survive winter by dropping their leaves, which decay and produce a nutrient-rich soil. Cold winters and hot summers. The trees lose leaves and go dormant in winters. 30-100 inches of rain a year. trees: maple, oak, hickory. animals: bears, wolves, deer.
2. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other.
3. Concentration of naturally occurring material in or on the earth's crust that can be extracted and processed into useful materials at an affordable cost.
4. the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle.
5. Mostly consist of cone-bearing evergreen trees that keep their needles year-round to help the trees survive long and cold winters.

5 Matching Questions

1. Mountaintop removal
2. Strip mining
3. Greenhouse effect
4. Weathering
5. Transform Fault

1. a Type of surface mining that uses explosives, massive shovels, and even larger machinery called draglines to remove the top of a mountain to expose seams of coal underneath a mountain.
2. b When plates slide past one another; Area where the earth's lithospheric plates move in opposite but parallel directions along a fracture (fault) in the lithosphere.
3. c The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface.
4. d process in which rock and soil are stripped from earths surface to expose the underlying materials to be mined
5. e warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Affected by uneven heating of earth's surface by solar energy, seasonal changes in temperature and precipitation, rotation of the earth on its axis, and the properties of air, water, and land.
   1. Global air circulation
   2. Tropical Rain Forests
   3. Open pit mining
   4. Convection
2. Covered with ice and snow except during a brief summer.
   1. Mineral Resource
   2. Tundra Polar Grasslands
   3. Transform Fault
   4. Grasslands
3. High-elevation forested islands of biodiversity and often have snow-covered peaks that reflect solar radiation and gradually release water to lower-elevation streams and ecosystems.
   1. Mantle
   2. Smelting
   3. Spoils
   4. Mountains
4. Forms from sediment produced when existing rocks are weathered and eroded into small pieces, then transported by water, wind, or gravity to downstream, downwind, or downhill sites.
   1. Smelting
   2. Igneous rock
   3. Metamorphic rock
   4. Sedimentary rock
5. Coastal areas support huge cone-bearing evergreen trees (e.g. redwoods and Douglas fir) in a cool and moist environment. Seasonal, sub-zero winter, warm humid summers, rainfall is 75-200cm per year, soil is well developed. Has small and large mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.
   1. Temperate Rain Forests
   2. Temperate Deciduous Forests
   3. Forests
   4. Tropical Rain Forests

5 True/False Questions

1. Forests → Enough precipitation to support stands of trees and are found in tropical, temperate, and polar regions.

   True        False

2. Greenhouse gases → warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere

   True        False

3. Igneous rock → a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks

   True        False

4. Rain shadow effect → warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere

   True        False

5. Biome → large terrestrial regions characterized by similar climate, soil, plants, and animals, regardless of where they are found in the world.

   True        False