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DSST Geology
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Answer 47 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Icicle-like structures of calcium carbonate that hang from the roofs of caves
grikes
creep
stalactite
clastic rocks
2. Red-orange soils rich in iron and aluminum oxides
soil
regolith
disintegration
laterites
3. Formed by the collapse of the top of a volcano
caldera
drumlin
chemical weathering
ring of fire
4. Wide gullies in blocks of limestone
grikes
stalagmite
under pressure - limestone is changed into what?
Magma
5. Measure of the amount of void space in a rock
weathering
porosity
pedalfers
caldera
6. Settling
sill
Basaltic magma
sedimentum
under pressure - limestone is changed into what?
7. Contain large amounts of iron oxide and aluminum rich clays - making the soil a brown to reddish brown color
pedalfers
regolith
peneplain
creep
8. Large - slow-moving river of ice - formed from compacted layers of snow
peneplain
stalagmite
glacier
drumlin
9. Aquifers
porosity
permeable rocks filled with water
creep
frost wedging
10. Formed from magma crystallization
dynamic metamorphic rock
Igneous
porosity
stalactite
11. Rocks are broken down into smaller fragments without undergoing any change in chemical composition
stalactite
caldera
mass wasting
disintegration
12. Solution occur when chemical reactions form a solid that settles out of solution
caldera
pedalfers
weathering
precipitates
13. The downslope movement of rock and soil under the influence of gravity
enceladus
clastic rocks
mass wasting
stalactite
14. Involve a mass of soil or soil and other materials sliding along a curved - rotational surface
disintegration
slumps
chemical weathering
precipitates
15. Is built by water falling on a constant spot on the cave floor and evaporates leaving a deposit of calcium carbonate
stalagmite
Igneous
sedimentum
till
16. Formed when rock is broken and ground with little recrystallization
dynamic metamorphic rock
Specific gravity
stalagmite
caldera
17. Over 60
erosion
disintegration
ring of fire
jupiter has how many moons?
18. Contain fragments of rocks - grains of minerals - and crushed shells
clastic rocks
peneplain
spring
stalactite
19. Like velvet
erosion
loamy soils
Specific gravity
sinkholes
20. The breaking down of rocks at or near to the earth's surface
weathering
Basaltic magma
stalagmite
Specific gravity
21. Chalk
a form of limestone
enceladus
laterites
glacier
22. Is the cycle of thawing and refreezing
frost wedging
exfoliation
clastic rocks
Specific gravity
23. 'almost a plain'
glacier
nonclastic rocks
peneplain
spring
24. Broken rock - soil - and loose sediment forms a primitive type of soil
stalagmite
regolith
stalactite
geodes
25. Magma squeezes between two rock layers and hardens into a thin horizontal sheet
sinkholes
sill
peneplain
loamy soils
26. An area formed at the mouth of a river where river currents interact with ocean tides
floodplains
estuary
sinkholes
under pressure - limestone is changed into what?
27. The breaking down of rocks through changes in their chemical composition
chemical weathering
peneplain
laterites
slumps
28. The inclusion and transportation of surface materials by another moveable material - usually water - wind - ice or animal (including people) movements
Magma
a form of limestone
peneplain
erosion
29. Hollow - ball-like bodies sometimes found in limestone
sinkholes
geodes
till
grikes
30. Molten rock
disintegration
jupiter has how many moons?
Magma
chemical weathering
31. Groundwater that flows out from underground onto the surface
soil
spring
exfoliation
precipitates
32. Group of volcanos in the pacific ocean
Basaltic magma
permeable rocks filled with water
ring of fire
disintegration
33. Part of the surface zone that has been altered by weathering - erosion and the processes of breakdown that include microbes and decay
frost wedging
ring of fire
soil
enceladus
34. Weight of a mineral compared to the weight of an equal volume of water
exfoliation
estuary
drumlin
Specific gravity
35. Magma that comes directly from the mantle
pedalfers
Basaltic magma
laterites
jupiter has how many moons?
36. The peeling away of the outer layers from a rock
Lithosphere
exfoliation
frost wedging
porosity
37. Oval-shaped mound of till
spring
stalactite
drumlin
peneplain
38. When glaciers melt and retreat and leave behind piles of unsorted rock debris
till
clastic rocks
Specific gravity
jupiter has how many moons?
39. Marble
a form of limestone
peneplain
permeable rocks filled with water
under pressure - limestone is changed into what?
40. Solid part of the earth's surface
mass wasting
floodplains
Lithosphere
creep
41. Deposited from solution or by organic processes
sedimentum
permeable rocks filled with water
nonclastic rocks
Specific gravity
42. Measure of the interconnectedness of the void spaces
porosity
till
permeability
Basaltic magma
43. Moon of saturn
disintegration
Igneous
Specific gravity
enceladus
44. A slow - downhill movement of soil
disintegration
a form of limestone
glacier
creep
45. Funnel-shaped depressions created by dissolved limestone
glacier
Igneous
pedalfers
sinkholes
46. The flat areas on both sides of a mature river or stream
precipitates
frost wedging
floodplains
Specific gravity
47. Narrow - table-like bodies of igneous rock formed when magma entered a vertical or oblique fracture and hardened
dikes
jupiter has how many moons?
sedimentum
precipitates