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Study Questions for Geology Common Assessment
Chapter 7, pgs. 210-220
1. Define chemical weathering
2. Define mechanical (physical) weathering?
3. What are examples of chemical and mechanical weathering?
4. Describe the environment where the highest amount of chemical weathering
would take place.
5. What was demonstrated in the chemical/physical weathering lab?
Chapter, 8 pgs. 252-260
6. What processes form deltas and alluvial fans?
Rock notes in composition book.
7. Draw and completely label the rock cycle.
Chapter 9, pgs. 286-298
8. What is the law of superposition and how can scientist use this law to determine
the age of rocks?
9. Why do we study fossils?
10. What is an index fossil?
11. How can fossils tell us about past environments?
Chapter 4, pgs. 108-137
12. Describe the interior of the earth. (layers)
13. How do scientists know about the different layers of earth interior?
14. What technology do scientists use to help them understand earth’s interior?
15. How does pressure and temperature change as you go deeper into the earth?
16. Where do convection currents happen inside the earth?
17. Describe how density differences create convection currents.
18. Magma and lava can metamorphisize rock by transferring heat. How does this
heat transfer work?
19. What is the driving force or mechanism that causes sea floor spreading?
20. Describe a convergent boundary.
21. Describe a divergent boundary.
22. What type of land formations are produced at convergent and divergent
boundaries?
23. As you move away from the center of a divergent boundary (mid-ocean ridge or
rift valley) does the crust get younger or older?
Chapter 6, pgs. 178-198
24. What are the 3 main types of volcanoes?
25. What are examples of the main types of volcanoes?
26. How can a single volcanic eruption affect our planet?