GEOG 1113: Landforms
Spring 2009
I. Identify
1. Soil
2. Humus
3. Capillary action
4. Surface tension
5. Field capacity
6. Soil-water budget
7. Evapotranspiration
8. Wilting point
9. Pedogenic process
10. Regolith
11. Bioturbation
12. Relief
13. Eluviations
14. Illuviation
15. Soil horizon
16. Soil science
17. seismic waves
18. aesthenosphere
19. lithosphere
20. crust
21. Geologic Cycle
22. rock
23. mineral
24. igneous rock
25. pluton
26. batholith
27. dike
28. sill
29. laccolith
30. sedimentary rock
31. lithification
32. metamorphic rock
33. rock cycle
34. geologic time
35. Holocene
36. Quaternary
37. Anthropocene
38. geomorphology
39. landform
40. continental shelf
41. alpine chain
42. continental shield
Exam 1 Study Guide
43. plate tectonics
44. Pangaea
45. passive plate margins
46. transform plate margins
47. plate divergence
48. plate convergence
49. collision
50. subduction
51. orogenesis
52. orogeny
53. oceanic-continental collision
54. oceanic-oceanic collision
55. continental-continental collision
56. earthquake
57. fault
58. focus
59. epicenter
60. seismograph
61. richter scale
62. fault
63. normal fault
64. reverse fault
65. strike-slip fault
66. overtrust fault
67. volcano
68. hot spot
69. geyser
70. caldera
71. physical weathering
72. chemical weathering
73. mass wasting
74. solifluction
75. mud flow
76. debris flow
77. slump
78. debris slide
79. soil creep
80. rockfall
81. avalanche
II. Short Answer
1. Name and describe the 4 basic soil properties.
2. Name and describe the 4 soil-forming processes.
3. Name and describe the 4 soil-forming factors.
4. Name and describe the 3 size categories for soil particles.
5. Why would it be important to understand the texture of the soil?
6. Describe the 6 soil horizons
7. Explain how we know anything about the Earth’s interior
8. Name and describe the consistency of all of Earth’s inner layers
9. Explain why the Earth has a magnetic field (magnetosphere).
10. What is the purpose of the aesthenosphere.
11. Name and describe the 2 types of crust
12. Name and describe the 3 subcycles of the Geologic Cycle
13. Describe the differences between intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks. Give an example
of each type of rock.
14. Name the three types of sedimentary rocks and give examples of each
15. What are 2 examples of metamorphic rocks?
16. Give 2 ways that Wegener’s Theory of Continental Drift was proven.
17. Explain the role of convection in plate tectonics.
18. Name and describe the 3 types of volcanoes.
19. Name the 3 areas where volcanoes can be found on Earth.
20. Name and describe the 2 primary types of weathering
21. Name and describe the 3 types of physical weathering
22. Name and describe the 4 types of chemical weathering
III. Diagram
1. Illustrate the Rock Cycle. Include the following terms in your illustrations: igneous rock,
metamorphic rock, sedimentary rock, magma, sediment, heat/pressure, melting.
2. Illustrate the formation of crust. Include the following in your illustration: subduction,
convergent plate boundary, divergent plate boundary, oceanic ridge