Volcanoes — Test Answers

Which environmental change is considered short term?

Favorable adaptations build up in a population over many generations due to long-term environmental change.What is the most likely result of this process?

Which feature of Earth is created at mid-ocean ridges?

Which increases along faults and leads to rock breaking?

Which is one piece of evidence of seafloor spreading?

Which plate forms a boundary with the African Plate?

A tropical rainforest includes trees, animals, insects, plants, rain, rivers, rocks, soil, and warm, moist air.Which spheres of Earth are represented in a tropical rainforest?

Which statement describes the damage that results from earthquakes?

How do geologists study direct evidence of Earth’s interior?

What may occur when convergent boundaries interact?

Which type of stress causes rocks to fold?

Which indicates how evidence of climate change supports the theory of continental drift?

Which feature forms when magma cools beneath Earth’s surface?

Which is one type of evidence that geologists usually study?

What causes the force that pushes magma from the magma chamber through the pipe and vent of a volcano?

The image shows mountains in Alaska.

When were Earth’s landmasses first recognizable as the continents we know today?

Which spheres of Earth are directly influenced when human-caused air pollution leads to acid rain that dissolves limestone rocks?

Which statement describes one event that happens at deep-ocean trenches?

A volcanic eruption releasing rock, ash, and dust particles into the air is an example of which interaction?