1. What is the term for the broad crater formed when an eruption destroys the upper part of a volcanic cone or when the cone collapses inward?
2. What is the term for a vertical fissure or chasm that develops in a glacier?
3. The area of low precipitation on the leeward side of a mountain is called what?
4. What is the term for the temperature at which air becomes saturated with water vapor and condensation occurs?
5. What is the term for the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake?
6. Terminal and recessional describe two types of a feature formed by the glacial deposition of debris. What is the term for this feature?
7. What term is given to a line of thunderstorms advancing ahead of a cold front?
8. Give the term for roughly parallel layers or beds of sedimentary rock.
9. The major river of a watershed in southern Africa rises in Lesotho and enters the Atlantic at Alexander Bay. Name the major river.
10. Rice is grown along the major river of a watershed that stretches about 1,000 miles through Myanmar before emptying into the Andaman Sea. Name the major river.
ANSWERS
1. caldera (Also acceptable: basal wreck)
2. crevasse
3. rain shadow (Also acceptable: rain shadow effect)
4. dew point
5. epicenter
6. moraine
7. squall line (Also acceptable: line squall, squall)
8. strata (Also acceptable: stratification, stratigraphy, stratified, stratum)
9. Orange River
10. Irrawaddy River (Also acceptable: Ayeyarwady River)
