Water Cycle and Bodies of Water Quiz

What is the primary pathway for water to move from the liquid state back into the water cycle?

Which body of water is usually smaller than oceans and is located where the land and ocean meet?

What type of waves mainly exhibit circular to elliptical orbit within the wave, with water molecules not actually moving along with the wave form?

Which layer hinders or prevents water movement due to very small pore spaces and is impermeable, despite having high porosity?

What is the product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity from clouds?

What is a ribbon-like body of water that flows downhill from the force of gravity?

Which process is characterized by the movement of rocks, soil, and regolith downward due to the action of gravity?

What is the surface process characterized by the removal of rock particles from where they were formed?

Which process involves water freezing in a crack of a rock and then the expansion wedging the rock apart?

What causes the downward sliding of a mass of rock or unconsolidated material moving as a unit along a curved surface?

What occurs when tectonic forces lift deeply buried rocks close to the surface, and then erosion removes overlying rocks, causing the rock to expand and fracture?

Which type of flow contains a large amount of water and is also known as mudflows or lahar if it occurs on slopes of volcanoes?

Which geological process is characterized by the fracturing and displacement of more brittle rock strata along a fault plane caused by tension or compression?

Which type of eruption is small to moderate explosive, lasting seconds to minutes, with ash columns reaching heights of up to 20 km and ejection of lava blocks and bombs?

What type of flow contains a large amount of water and is also known as mudflows or lahar if it occurs on the slopes of volcanoes?

What is the type of wave that exhibits circular to elliptical orbit within the wave, with water molecules not actually moving along with the wave form?

Which type of rock formation occurs from magmas that entered the country rock parallel to the bedding (layering) and are concordant with the country rock?

What is the type of mountain formed from faults or cracks in the earth's crust forcing some materials or blocks of rock up and others down?

Which principle states that within the depositional basin, strata are continuous in all directions until they thin out at the edge of that basin?

What term is used to describe a technique used to determine the age of materials such as rocks?

Which type of fossilization occurs when the organic matter is entirely replaced by minerals and turns to stone?

What kind of dating determines the relative order of past events without necessarily determining their absolute age?

Which type of dating determines an age on a specified chronology in archaeology and geology?

What type of dating method uses the properties of radiocarbon to determine the age of an object containing organic material?

Which principle states that layers of rocks deposited from above are originally laid down horizontally?

What term is used to describe the imprint left by the shell of a hard skeleton on surrounding rock, such as dinosaur bones buried beneath many layers of sediment?

What process involves water freezing in a crack of a rock and then the expansion wedging the rock apart?

Which process is characterized by the movement of rocks, soil, and regolith downward due to the action of gravity?