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Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the letter before each number.
_________11. What causes high and low tides?
A. Earth’s rotation on its axis C. Sun’s solar energy
B. Moon’s gravitational pull D. Earth’s gravitational pull
_________12. How is coral a tool formed?
A. Volcanic eruption C. Underwater bedrock
formations
B. Corals growing around a volcanic island D. Earthquake
_________13. What is a long shore drift?
A. Movement of sand and shingles along the coast C. Accumulation of sad at the
river mouth
B. Sand bars D. Island formed by volcanic
eruptions
_________14. How does an occlusion form?
A. Cold air moving up from the ground C. Unbalance electrical reaction in
the air
B. Cold front pushing warm air up of the ground D. Cold and warm air mixing in
the atmosphere
_________15. What is a heat haze?
A. A reflection caused by pollutants in the air
B. A distorted image resulting from the bending o sun’s light rays by changes in
air temperature
C. A movement of warm air over a vast expanse of land
D. Caused by extremely high temperature common in dessert areas
_________16. What sort of rock formation do the world’s greatest mountain ranges consist of?
A. Magma B. Chalk deposit C. Fold eruptions D. Slip formation
_________17. What is the fore that wears down mountains?
A. Earthquake B. Erosion C. Volcanic eruptions D.
Deforestation
_________18. How are volcanic island formed?
A. Collision of two oceanic plates C. Volcanic eruptions
B. Cooling of lava by seawater D. Accumulation of corals
_________19. When the Theory of plate Tectonics was generally accepted?
A. 1900’s B. 1930’s C. 1950’s D. 1980’s
_________20. The weathering away of rocks by water, wind and ice.
A. Denudation B. Erosion C. Volcanic rock D. Metamorphic
rock