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Name ______________
What type of erosion is slow, but moves the heaviest sediments: (wind erosion/glacial
erosion).
Chemical weathering can seep into the ground causing: (mechanical
weathering/caves).
The violent shaking of the earth’s crust is called an (earthquake/fault).
Scientists use (seismographs/epicenters) to measure earthquakes.
A crack in the earth’s crust along which movement takes place is a (boundary/fault).
When sections of the crust move apart, this is a (converging/diverging) boundary.
When sections of the crust compress together, this is called a (converging/diverging)
boundary.
When sections of the crust move past each other in opposite directions, this is called
(slippage/sliding) boundaries.
When the magma comes out of a volcano, it’s called (a volcano/magma).
What chain of island was formed from volcanoes: (Alaska/Hawaii).
Heavy rainfall over a short period of time can cause: (floods/runoff).
Pipes or channels that carry away storm water are called: (levees/storm drains).
A wall along a river to prevent flooding is called (levee/storm drain).
A natural area that soaks up floodwaters in a: (beach/swamp).
A wall across a river is called a (reservoir/dam).
The artificial lake that collects behind a dam is called a (reservoir/dam).
This is land formed over many years of build-up of sand and dirt offshore of a beach:
(barrier island/dune).
Wind and sand moves into small hills along the beach and is called: (barrier island/dune).
Thin, narrow walls that extend from the shore into the ocean are called (sea walls/jetties).
A tall wall built along the edge of a beach is called (sea wall/jetty).
To widen a river so that boats can pass through is called: (beach nourishment/dredging).
The leader of the Nazi party and Germany during WWII (Stalin/Hirohito/Hitler/Mussolini).
The leader of Japan during WWII (Stalin/Hirohito/Hitler/Mussolini).
The leader of the Soviet Union during WWII (Stalin/Hirohito/Hitler/Mussolini).
The leader of Italy during WWII (Stalin/Hirohito/Hitler/Mussolini).
The leader of the U.S. during WWII (Churchill/Roosevelt).
The leader of Great Britain during WWII (Churchill/Roosevelt).
Hirohito of Japan wanted control over (U.S. and Cuba/Korea, China, and Philippines).
Germany wanted to dominate (Europe/Asia).
Gas, food, and other items were limited during the war; this was called (limiting/rationing).
The event that brought the U.S. into WWII was the attack of (the Lusitania/Pearl Harbor).
One of the most important battles of WWII where the Allied forces stormed the beaches of
Normandy (VE-Day/D-Day).
When the U.S. took this island in the Pacific, it launched the invasion of Japan (Iwo
Jima/Okinawa).
The mass killing of Jews and many others by the Nazi party (atomic bombs/Holocaust).
African American fighter pilots during WWII (Enola Men/Tuskegee Airmen).
The president at the end of WWII who decided to drop the atomic bombs (FDR/Truman).
After WWII, there was an invisible line across Europe that separated communist from
noncommunist (Iron Curtain/Berlin Wall).
This city in Germany was literally divided communist from noncommunist (Iron
Curtain/Berlin Wall).
The U.S. helped out the people in the city of Berlin by sending in food and supplies by air in
the (Berlin Airlift/Berlin Air Support).
A that was fought to help spread communism in Korea (Korean War/Vietnam War).
A group of allies that agreed to defend each other if they should be attacked (United
Nations/North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Joseph McCarthy/Nikita
Khrushchev)
Accused people of being secret communist in the U.S. (Joseph McCarthy/Nikita
Khrushchev