If water is the transport mechanism of sediment, the grain size of sedimentary deposits most closely indicates the ________.

Wegener’s proposal that the continents had once fit together as a single supercontinent was rejected by geologists at the time because ________.

Which of the following is NOT true concerning the long-term forecasting of earthquakes? Long-term forecasting ________.

Topography dominated by depressions formed by the collapse of caves is termed a ________.

According to the figure below, approximately how much has the sea level risen since the last ice age ended, approximately 16,000 years ago?

Why is a spring tide so much higher than a normal high tide?

________ create(s) an easy route for oil to follow from the rock to a well.

The internal ordering of mineral crystals can be detected using ________.

Most of the ocean floor is made up of ________.

Thermal (contact) metamorphism occurs ________.