Earth Science Quiz 39 (25 MCQs)

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1. Plants, animals, and bacteria are found in what sphere?

2. Fossils are usually found in which type of rock?

3. How might a weathered mountain appear different from an unweathered mountain?

4. State the effects of the Revolution of Earth around the Sun

5. The water found in the atmosphere in the form of a gas is called what?

6. A mineral is scraped across a ceramic plate and a red colored powder is left behind. What does this mean?

7. When geologists want to compare the ages of rock found in two different places, they look at the _____

8. What kind of rock is made from cooled magma/ lava?

9. A large irregularly shaped object in space that orbits our Sun

10. What is the definition of orbit?

11. What objects do scientists use light-years to measure the distance between the objects?

12. As the Earth moves round the sun, the Northern Hemisphere and shortest day in the Southern Hemisphere?

13. The dropping off of sediment as the motion of the wind or water slows or comes to a stop.

14. Melted, liquid rock that reaches Earth's surface

15. Which planet is farthest from the Sun?

16. How does the redshift of distant galaxies support the Big Bang Theory?

17. Valleys created by downcutting streams are _____ shaped

18. What is a large cloud of gas and dust where stars are born or explode at the end of their lives?

19. Today, the area of ice-covered land has reduced to _____ million square kilometers.

20. What kind of rock is made from intense heat and pressure?

21. Earth science provides an understanding of history because it reveals _____

22. _____ allow us to calculate the CO2 levels of the atmosphere going back 800, 000 years

23. The amount of space occupied by an object is the object's

24. The large sheets of rock that make up Earth's crust

25. How old is a bone that has 12.5% of the originalamount of radioactive carbon-14 remaining