1. Unit 5 Test
Shaping Earth

2. 1. What is the rock that makes up the Earth’s outer layer?

3. 2. What is a bend in the rock layers?

4. 3. What is a crack in the crust along which movement takes place?

5. 4. What are vibrations caused by earthquakes?

6. 5. What detects and records earthquakes?

7. 6. What is the downhill end of a glacier where glacial till and other debris are deposited?

8. 7. What is the slow process that breaks rocks down into smaller pieces?

9. 8. The weathering and removal of rock or soil is called ________?

10. 9. What is a large body of weathered rock deposited at the edge of a glacier?

11. 10. What is the dropping off of weathered rock?

12. 11. What does soil carried in water down a river or stream form as it empties into an ocean or other large body of water?

13. 12. What is the area of land drained by flowing water called?

14. 13. Which of these is not found on the ocean floor?

15. 14. Hawaii is a chain of islands formed by ____________.

16. 15. Which of these does not cause weathering and erosion?

17. 16. The core of the earth is made mostly of _____________.

18. 17. Earth’s surface is broken into several large pieces called ____________ Plates.

19. 18. What forms when one plate slides on top of another plate as they push together?

20. 19. What happens when a sudden movement along a plate occurs?

21. 20. What scale is used to rate how strong an earthquake is?

22. 21. A giant wave caused by an earthquake is called a _________?

23. 22. Which of these does deposition not create?

24. 23. What moves slowly across the land, carrying away soil, gravel, sand, clay, and even large boulders?

25. 24. Which of these do people do that does not help erode the land?

26. 25. How can floods be good?