Earth Science Quiz 7 (25 MCQs)

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1. Which statement best explains why stars viewed from the Northern Hemisphere appear to revolve around Polaris?

2. What does the root word atmos mean?

3. What geological features are found in highlands of Tagaytay City?

4. There are _____ million tons of gold in the sea.

5. What part of the moon do we see from Earth?

6. What is an example of a natural disaster?

7. What is the scientific study of the ocean/sea?

8. Match the following word/subject with the topic it relates to the most.Grand Canyon

9. What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?

10. The Mayans tracked the stars to come up with this branch of science

11. This is the largest planet by size and mass.

12. There are _____ measures of the severity of an Earthquake.

13. Match the following word/subject with the topic it relates to the most.Causes of Droughts

14. Magma rises to become new oceanic crust where

15. A part of the Earth's crust where two tectonic plates are moving away from each other

16. Every night Brianna looks through her telescope and charts the stars and planets. What branch of science is she studying?

17. It is a semisolid, rocky, and very hot layer of the earth.

18. The scientific study of celestial objects

19. What is a large collection of stars, dust, and gas bound together by gravity?

20. The cycle of the moon lasts about a _____

21. Where does the ocean get its energy to evaporate?

22. Feature that forms when magma flows onto Earth's surface

23. Crust is neither formed nor destroyed along which type of boundary?

24. Inactive but able to become active again

25. Who use the geological time scale to study the history of the Earth systematically.