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Earth Science Quiz 8 (60 MCQs)

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1. Two ways to describe igneous rocks are .....
2. Which of the following units of the geological, clock is the longest?
3. What does physical weathering involve?
4. It is placed below the lithosphere which is about 180 km thick and contains magma.
5. Which is not the characteristics of the geological time scale
6. Hubble's Law says that .....
7. Wegener wondered how fossil and living creatures
8. Which group of substances is arranged in order of decreasing specific heat values?
9. The remains or traces of living things in preserved rock
10. The deflection of Earth's planetary winds is an 6 Arrows in the diagram below show three methods example of
11. Ecosystems are comprised of living things. In which sphere you can find this?
12. There are more than ..... submerged, usually extinct, volcanoes in the world.
13. What is a self-contained convective zone in a fluid in which upward motion of warmer fluid in the center is balanced by downward motion of cooler fluid at the periphery?
14. The process in which water becomes richer in dissolved nutrients resulting in oxygen deficiency.
15. What is the proper way for testing the hardness of a mineral?
16. Hardness is a property that helps identify minerals. Scientists use a scale of 1-10 to show the hardness of a mineral. What number would be given to the softest?
17. In 2006 Pluto was demoted from planet to dwarf planet.
18. Which is true of all scientific models?
19. When rainfall occurs, the rainwater will most likely become surface runoff if the land surface is
20. Associated with transform boundaries.
21. The following are ways to solve ecological problems except:
22. Which of the following refers to ability of minerals to reflect light on its surface?
23. Tropic of Cancer is an imaginary line 23 1/2- degree ..... of the equator.
24. The land on the ..... side of a mountain range gets almost all of the precipitation
25. Which of the following is a part of weather?
26. Extrusive rocks that form quickly above the Earths surface have
27. Melted, liquid rock beneath Earth's surface
28. The troposphere is the ..... layer which contains about 75 percent of the total mass of the atmosphere .
29. Ozone is concentrated in the stratosphere, between 44 and ..... above the Earth.
30. Why does the sun appear to rise in the east and set in the west?
31. One difference between a breccia rock and aconglomerate rock is that the particles in a brecciarock are
32. A part of the Earth's crust where two tectonic plates slide past each other
33. Which organisms were alive when New YorkState was last covered by a continental ice sheet?
34. Which of the following does NOT belong in the electromagnetic spectrum:
35. The largest ocean is the .....
36. What is the study of the earth?
37. A factor that is affected by changes in the independent variable is the
38. What characteristics of a mineral refers to resistance to abrasion?
39. Most sedimentary rock is made from sediments of other rock. Which of these processes would the sediments MOST likely go through to form sedimentary rock?
40. The important ozone layer is found in.
41. The gravitational interaction between the Earth and the moon causes what phenomenon on Earth?
42. How much of the earth's water is freshwater?
43. What is oceanography?
44. In New York State, the number of hours of daylight each day increases continuously from .....
45. T8-The variable that is usually measured is:
46. Where are the youngest rocks found on the ocean floor?
47. What is an example of evaporation?
48. Which combination of climate factors generally results in the coldest temperatures?
49. What is energy created by the sun called?
50. If you have a high-humidity, low-pressure air mass that is pushed up a mountain, what will most likely happen to the weather?
51. Which of the following is the correct order for temperatures of stars based on color from hottest to coolest?
52. What two fundamental pillars of physics came into existence immediately after the Big Bang?
53. What is the rigid layer of the Earth's surface made up of the crust and upper mantle called?
54. The study of the earth's oceans.
55. Nuclear fusion is the source of energy for stars. Besides hydrogen, which other element is MOST likely also common in stars?
56. What types of stars often go supernova?
57. A nonexplosive volcano made of hardened lava
58. They tracked celestial movements
59. When rock is compacted & cemented what type of rock is formed?
60. In which sphere are all LIVING things found?
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