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 ________.

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

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

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 ________.