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Chapter 5 Study Guide
Answer the following questions.
1) What are three causes of landslides?
A) gravity
B) loose rock
C) floods
D) rain
2) What are two causes of a mudslide?
A) gravity
B) fast moving water
3) Where do landslides and mudslides take place?
Everywhere
4) Describe the process of a landslide.
Gravity pulls on the soil. Usually takes place on sloped land and eroded soil.
5) What is creep?
Soil that moves slowly downhill along faults.
6) What are the things that can happen due to an earthquake?
A) tsunami
B) cracks in the sidewalks
C) damage to buildings
7) What causes most earthquakes?
Earthquakes are caused by plates sliding past each other. Also when there is a sudden movement
in Earth’s plates.
8) What three things are formed due to plates moving on the earth’s surface?
A) volcanoes
B) mountains
C) earthquakes
9) What landform would you find magma and lava?
volcanoes
10) What natural disaster causes cracks in the sidewalk?
earthquakes
11) Describe the following types of volcanoes:
Shield Volcano- quiet and slow eruptions
Composite Volcano- both quiet and explosive eruptions
Cinder-cone Volcano- explosive eruptions
12) What type of fault is the San Andreas Fault?
Strike slip fault
13) Name five ways that the surface of Earth can change.
A) volcanoes
B) glaciers
C) deposition
D) earthquakes
E) flooding
F) mudslides
G) landslides
H) tsunami
14) What do you call the sudden movement of Earth’s crust?
Earthquake