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Earth Science Quiz 18 (60 MCQs)

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1. What objects do scientists use light-years to measure the distance between the objects?
2. As the Earth moves round the sun, the Northern Hemisphere and shortest day in the Southern Hemisphere?
3. The dropping off of sediment as the motion of the wind or water slows or comes to a stop.
4. Melted, liquid rock that reaches Earth's surface
5. T7-Jacob wants to record his results for the temperature of each day in the past week. What graph or table should he use?
6. Which planet is farthest from the Sun?
7. T8-The Independent Variable is represented on which Axis?
8. How does the redshift of distant galaxies support the Big Bang Theory?
9. Valleys created by downcutting streams are ..... shaped
10. What is a large cloud of gas and dust where stars are born or explode at the end of their lives?
11. Today, the area of ice-covered land has reduced to ..... million square kilometers.
12. What kind of rock is made from intense heat and pressure?
13. Earth science provides an understanding of history because it reveals .....
14. ..... allow us to calculate the CO2 levels of the atmosphere going back 800, 000 years
15. The amount of space occupied by an object is the object's
16. The large sheets of rock that make up Earth's crust
17. How old is a bone that has 12.5% of the originalamount of radioactive carbon-14 remaining
18. Heat rising in the mantle creates ..... boundaries, while the sinking of cold magma creates ..... boundaries.
19. The lower the barometric (air) pressure is, the worse the weather will be.
20. Which two features are commonly found atdivergent plate boundaries?
21. What are the 4 main spheres of Earth?
22. The correct SI unit for measuring length is
23. Which type of dating method can be used on rock layers by applying the Law of Superposition?
24. A ..... force slowly wears a way mountains and other features on the surface of earth.
25. Planetary differentiation (layering of the earth) occurs because of what property of matter?
26. When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, which season occurs in the Southern Hemisphere?
27. The moon is now much cooler that the earth. Why?
28. This is the study of the oceans that make up Earth.
29. The correct SI unit for temperature is .....
30. What color has the longest wavelength?
31. In which layer of the Sun does nuclear fusion occur?
32. What is an example of freezing?
33. Which 2 layers of the Earth form the lithosphere?
34. Which of the following refers to an aggregate of one or more minerals?
35. Which ocean is expanding due to a mid-ocean ridge?
36. Tides are characterized by rise and fall of the water level in the.
37. What is Pangaea? (MS-ESS1-4)
38. Following a supernova, the center of a star can collapse and make an ultra dense collection of ..... particles called a neutron star.
39. Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas
40. Which is true about hotter material in the mantle (convection currents)?
41. A record of ground motion produced by an earthquake
42. What is the final step of the scientific method?
43. What increases evaporation?
44. What does the root word ge/e/o mean?
45. The four agents of erosion are water, ....., ice, and gravity. What goes in the blank?
46. ..... study the ocean
47. Which of the following provides evidence that has helped earth scientists determine the age of the earth more precisely?
48. The composition of the atmosphere is constant up to about ..... km above the Earth, s surface with the exception of ozone and water vapours.
49. The length of time between night and day on Earth varies throughout the year. This time variance is explained primarily by
50. What is earth's revolution?
51. A seawall constructed along a length of oceanfront property can assist a coastal city by .....
52. How does a volcano cause a constructive change to the Earth's surface?
53. These are very common at plate boundaries.
54. Algae and plants use water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide to make their own food through a process called what?
55. The mass of the Earth is.
56. What is the brightness of a star as seen from Earth?
57. ..... is an area's expected weather over a long period of time.
58. This is the approximate amount of salt water on the Earth
59. What stage is our sun in the life cycle of a star?
60. What objects helped set a baseline of time for our evidence so we could compare all other evidence to it in order to determine how long ago our planet formed .....
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