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Semester 1 Exam Review
6th Grade Science
Name: _________________________________
Period: _________
1. The study of water is called _________________
2. A scientist who studies rocks, land forms, volcanoes, and mountains would be called a _________________
3. Does California have mountains, valleys, and plains?_________________
4. In the rock cycle, a rock that is changed by heat and pressure becomes a(an) _________________
5. The process that splits rock through freezing and thawing is called _________________
6. Soil that is made up of roughly equal parts of clay, sand, and silt is called _________________
7. The humus in soil is produced by _________________
8. Minerals and rocks are considered _______________________ resources.
9. The type of weathering in which rock is physically broken into smaller pieces is called
__________________________ weathering.
10. In crop rotation, farmers plant ________________________ crops every year.
11. The eroded materials carried by water or wind are called _________________
12. The downhill movement of eroded materials is known as _________________
13. As runoff flows over the surface, it forms tiny grooves in soil called _________________
14. When a streambed curves, deposition occurs _________________
15. The erosion of sediment by wind is _________________
16. A mass of rock and soil deposited directly by a glacier is called _________________
17. Glaciers pick up rocks by a process called _________________
18. When agents of erosion lay down sediment, this is called _________________
19. Water that moves over Earth’s surface is called _________________
20. A _________________ is a looplike bend in a river.
21. The relatively soft layer of the upper mantle is the _________________
22. The transfer of heat by the direct contact of particles of matter is _________________
23. Subduction of the ocean floor takes place at _________________
24. The process that powers plate tectonics is _________________
25. Two plates crash into each other at _________________
26. Granite is one of the main rocks that makes up the continental crust, which is _________________
27. Heat is transferred in the mantle by what type of current? _________________
Semester 1 Exam Review
6th Grade Science
Name: _________________________________
Period: _________
28. The supercontinent formed by continental drift was called _________________
29. Underwater canyons are also called _________________
30. Two plates move apart at what kind of boundary? _________________
31. The force that causes part of the crust to become shorter and thicker is _________________
32. When the hanging wall of a fault slips down with respect to the footwall, the result is _________________
33. What is a rating of earthquake damage at a particular location? _________________
34. The largest waves on a seismogram are _________________
35. In the hours after an earthquake, people should not go inside a building, even if it appears undamaged, because
of _________________
36. A force that changes Earth’s crust by squeezing rock until it folds or breaks is _________________
37. In a ________________ fault, the hanging wall slips down relative to the footwall.
38. Beneath an earthquake’s epicenter lies the quakes _________________, which is where the earthquake is
triggered.
39. The first seismic waves to arrive after an earthquake are the _________________
40. An earthquake beneath the ocean floor can trigger a large wave called a _________________
41. Volcanoes found where two oceanic plates collide form a(n) _________________
42. Magma becomes lava when it reaches a volcano’s _________________
43. Lava that forms smooth, ropelike coils when it hardens is called _________________
44. A volcanic mountain made up of volcanic ash, cinders, and bombs is called a _________________
45. The collapse of a volcano’s magma chamber may produce a (an)
46. A volcano that has not erupted for many years but might erupt again in the future is _________________
47. Magma that hardens in a volcano’s pipe forms a _________________
48. Far from plate boundaries, a volcano may form over a ____________________, which is an area where magma
forms under ground.
49. An explosive eruption of a volcano is called a (an) _________________
50. A _________________ is formed when magma that is high in silica erupts.