Honors: Fall MC Review
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1. Explain how the composition of a rock will affect the following rates of weathering:
 Chemical Weathering: ____________________________________________
 Mass Wasting: __________________________________________________
 Water Erosion: __________________________________________________
 Wind Abrasion: __________________________________________________
2. Contrast the age of oceanic crust near ocean ridges and ocean trenches:
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3. List four results of volcanoes:
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4. Contrast the grain size and sorting of sediments transported by glaciers and wind.
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5. What features do an O-O and O-C convergent boundary share?
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6. Describe the “Ring of Fire” – type of boundary, and what happens there
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7. Contrast the mountain ranges of the Andes and Himalayas (how did the form, and type of mountains)
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8. If you found an igneous rocks with large crystals, what statement could you make about how it formed?
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9. What scientific fact supports the theory that the outer core is liquid?
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10. What type of metamorphism is happening in the Appalachian Mountains? __________________________________
11. Why do European and North American mountain chains have similar compositions and origins?
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12. Explain how the following rocks formed:
Rock
Breccia
Marble
Gneiss
Formation Process
13. Why doesn’t the lithosphere have convection currents?
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14. Explain how the type of magma determines the volcano (consider silica content, pressure, and temperature)
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15. As the velocity of a stream decreases, how will that affect the carrying capacity?
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16. What causes the mirrored magnetic patterns in the rocks on the ocean floor?
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17. Fill in the table on folds and faults
Type
Anticline
Type of Stress
Picture
Syncline
Monocline
Normal
Reverse
Strike-Slip
18.
Fill in the table below:
Continental Drift
Description
Scientist Responsible:
Evidence Provided:
Evidence Missing
Seafloor Spreading
Description
Scientist Responsible :
Proof Provided