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What Geologic Feature am I?

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Earth Science : What Geologic Feature am I?

Introduction:
"Geology is cool- match my description with my name."


1. Follow my long axis, and I point the way the glacier moved.
    Crevasse
    Cirque
    Meander
    Drumlin


2. My profile is not steep, but I produce the basaltic rock that makes new land.
    Composite volcano
    Shield volcano
    Pegmatite
    Horst


3. I am a geologic feature that allowed ancient Egypt to flourish.
    Flood plain
    Karst topography
    Graben
    Tectonics


4. Now I look like a scar on the land, or a pit, but I once had an active past.
    Caldera
    Phyllite
    Horst
    Spit


5. Exposed in a road cut, my once flat layers are now bent in a large trough, like the shape of the letter U.
    An anticline
    A fiord
    A ravine
    A syncline


6. They call me San Andreas and monitor me around the clock. What am I?
    A normal fault
    A strike-slip fault
    A reverse fault
    A thrust fault


7. I have built up the eastern part of Washington State, USA, into a broad, flat area.
    Fault-block mountains
    Plateau basalts
    Upper mantle
    Piedmont


8. I am named after a region in Yugoslavia, where carbonate rock is dissolved by large amounts of ground water.
    Mammoth topography
    Frick topography
    Triest topography
    Karst topography


9. Looking at me, it is easy to see that I have an interesting history of upheaval, movement and erosion.
    Alluvium
    Angular unconformity
    Aquifer
    Concretion


10. People on Long Island, New York, USA, build their communities on me. My origin is from the north and a colder climate.
    End moraine
    Tuff
    Wave-built terrace
    Anticline


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