Exam 3: Landforms

Basalt and granite are two very common igneous rocks.

Explain the general types of volcanoes that occur on Earth.

Much of the north-central United States is actually overlain by ice-deposited material called ________.

United States Geological Survey estimates that, worldwide, over ________ people have been killed by earthquakes and resulting tsunamis since the year 2000.

Which of the following countries has the most experience with earthquakes and tsunamis?

Much of the U.S. West Coast has been tectonically uplifted in the last few million years.

Like rivers, landforms along shorelines are shaped by the balance between:

Glaciers flow very slowly, usually at rates of ________.

The vertical movements caused by loading or unloading the crust are called ________.

Japan has considerable experience with earthquakes and tsunamis.

Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky was formed by the chemical weathering of ________.

Shield volcanoes erupt flowing lava that cools to form a rock called:

The two plates primarily responsible for the creation of the Himalaya Mountains are:

Discuss some landforms created as a result of glacial movements.

Throughout much of the last 3 million years, known as the ________, glaciers covered much of North America.

During mass movement, water, flows downhill because of gravity, carrying solid rock particles with it.

Discuss some of the ways of managing coastal erosion.

When rocks are broken up by physical force, we term that ________ weathering.

The most recent glacial advance reached its maximum around ________ ago.