5th and 6th Grade Science Geology Review 5 City Academy Science

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DIRECTIONS: Below is a cumulative review of the geology unit. All questions are to be answered to the best of your ability in order to be considered complete. Reviews completed and corrected entitle students to use their notes for the last five minutes of the quiz. The review is due Thursday, March 1 with a quiz scheduled for Friday, March 2. Students are to study for their quiz 20 minutes each night prior to the quiz using their notes, handouts, reviews and old quizzes. FILL IN THE BLANKS: Fill in the missing parts of the rock cycle below. Answer the questions that follow using complete sentences. 1. What is weathering? What are two major forms of weathering and how are they different? How can

temperature cause a rock to be weathered? 2. What is erosion? What are the five major agents of erosion? How is a landslide and creep different from each

other? 3. What is sediment? How does compaction of sediment work? How is compaction and cementation different

from each other? What is formed after compaction and cementation?

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IDENTIFICATION: Label each of the parts of the illustration below by identifying what the arrows are pointing at and answer the questions next to it. IDENTIFICATION: Identify the different types of volcanoes and whether they are considered a quiet or explosive volcano. Answer the questions that follow using complete sentences. 1. What is the difference between an active and dormant volcano? Where are most of Earth’s volcanoes found?

What is occurring here that creates so many volcanoes?

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1. Where in the rock cycle do volcanoes contribute in rock formation? What type of rock do they produce? 2. What is volcanism? What is a volcano? What are the three major parts of a volcano? How is magma different from lava?

SHORT ANSWER: With complete sentences, answer each the following questions correctly. You must rephrase part of the question in the answer.

1. What does erosion do to sediment? How are erosion and deposition different? Why is weathering not the same as erosion?

2. How is low viscosity lava different from high viscosity lava? What is the difference between a quiet and

explosive volcano? Why doesn’t low viscosity lava cause explosive eruptions? 3. What is the rock cycle? What are the three major types of rocks in the rock cycle? How is each of these rocks

different from the other? IDENTIFICATION: Circle and label a major shock, foreshock, and/or aftershock below. Next, circle and label all the P-waves, S-waves, and Surface Waves in each of the events. Finally, answer the questions that follow using complete sentences. time

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1. Why does the S-wave always appear second in the order of wave types? Which type of wave is a compression wave? What characteristic determines which event is considered an aftershock? Which two instruments do seismologists use to record the type of data above?

2. Why does a P-wave always appear first? What are the two different types of surface waves? How are these two seismic waves different from each other?

IDENTIFICATION: Label each of the parts of the illustrations below by identifying the waves or what the arrows are pointing at.

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EXPLAIN: Look at the pictures below and answer the questions that follow. SHORT ANSWER: With complete sentences, answer each the following questions correctly. You must rephrase part of the question in the answer.

1. What is topography? What causes karst topography? What causes glacial topography? How is glacial abrasion different from glacial recession?

2. What is an earthquake? How does friction in a fault contribute to earthquakes? What are the two different

types of faults and how are they different? 3. What is a seismic wave? How is a focus different from an epicenter?

The picture to the left is a glacier. What is a glacier? How might this glacier cause weathering, erosion, and deposition?

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