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What Geologic Feature am I?

Created by severnriver

Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Earth Science
What Geologic Feature am I game quiz
"Geology is cool- match my description with my name."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



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
    Horst
    Pegmatite
    Shield volcano


3. I am a geologic feature that allowed ancient Egypt to flourish.
    Graben
    Flood plain
    Karst topography
    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.
    A fiord
    An anticline
    A syncline
    A ravine


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


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


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


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


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

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