Daily Geography Puzzles & Riddles - Challenge Yourself!

Mount St. Helens and the other Cascade volcanoes are ________. Group of answer choices old, deeply eroded stratovolcanoes built before the Pacific Ocean existed a row of young, active, shield volcanoes built as western North America moved over a hot spot deep in the mantle young, active stratovolcanoes built on a continental margin above a sinking slab of oceanic lithosphere old, deeply eroded, basaltic shield volcanoes built when western North America was over the present-day site of the Hawaiian hot spot
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Identify possible consequences of rapid groundwater withdrawal. Choose one or more: A. Pore collapse occurs. B. Swamps form. C. Wells go dry. D. A cone of depression forms.
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The Aral Sea is _____. in Saudi Arabia the largest lake in the world becoming much larger because of the increased melting of glaciers about to disappear because of the diversion rivers feeding the sea an arm of the Pacific Ocean
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Scientists are currently planning a mission that should tell us definitively whether there is an ocean on Europa. This mission will do that in the cheapest way possible, which is to ________.
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Warm surface currents in the ocean move down the east coast of southern Africa while cold surface currents move up the west coast. What effect does that have on the climate of southern Africa
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Of the regions of the United States, which has the highest incidence of tornadoes? A) New England B) Hawaiian Islands C) West Coast D) Midwestern States Group of answer choices A B C D
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The mid-ocean mountains, such as the ridges and rises: Group of answer choices are similar in origin to the Alps, the Rockies, and the Appalachians are constructed of volcanic basalt. are similar in size and features to most continental mountains are composed of folded and faulted marine sedimentary rocks
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The balance or imbalance between the accumulation at the upper end of the glacier and the loss (ablation) at the lower end defines the ___________ of the glacier.
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As water flows, it accumulates in natural cracks, which eventually form ______ rather than spreading across the land. Multiple choice question.
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Some rocks and minerals are not stable at the surface because they Group of answer choices are exposed to water. formed in high-temperature environments. formed in high-pressure environments. are exposed to oxygen. All of these.
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The Mercalli Scale is a scale from ________. Group of answer choices 1 to 12 that rates the energy required for faulting to occur 1 to 10 that rates the energy released by an earthquake I to XII that rates the structural damage due to an earthquake I to X that rates the total energy released during the main quake and all aftershocks
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Working from deep geologic strata toward shallow geologic strata, what is the sequence in which fossils of these groups should make their first appearance
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A municipality considering measures to decrease local air pollution would achieve the largest decrease from
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Lava flows are produced by basaltic magmas that contain ______ than those that produce scoria cones.
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The ionosphere is produced by the action of solar radiation and atmospheric atoms. reflects solar ultraviolet and atmospheric atoms. consists of ozone ions. occurs at roughly the same altitude as high clouds.
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If central Pennsylvania had a really dry year, and received only one-third of our usual rainfall, we would be just dry enough to be a called a desert if such dry years stayed for a long time. How much rainfall per year would we be receiving per year then
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According to Oppenlander, livestock operations on land has caused or created, more than _____________ nitrogen-flooded dead zones around the world in our ocean, and comprise more than ________________ square miles of areas completely devoid of life.
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Say we suspect that the oceans cooled over some particular time period. If we were to look at oceanic sediments from that time period, and more specifically at the 18O values of foraminifera shells found in those sediments, how should we expect those 18O values to change as a result of the hypothesized cooling
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All of the following factors contribute to the lack of precipitation in an arid climate except for: Group of answer choices cold ocean currents sinkin
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A weak trough of low pressure found in the tropics and along which hurricanes occasionally form is called a(n) ____.
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Assume that the climate change model accurately predicts the change to this biome over the next 50 years. What results would this have on our country's a
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Suppose, in the North Atlantic, an eastward-moving ocean vessel is directly in the path of a westward-moving hurricane. The ship's wisest course would be to veer to the ____ of the storm.
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The overall ______ of a region may be directly affected by latitude, elevation, ocean currents, prevailing wind directions, and other factors
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What was the rate of Pacific Plate motion relative to the Hawaiian hotspot from 5.1 to 0.8 Myr, in cm/yr
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