Earth Science Quiz 20 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is usually responsible for an earthquake?

Correct Answer: B) Slippage along faults within Earth's crust.

2. Halley's Comet comes back every *blank* years.

Correct Answer: B) 75.

3. What does the Earth's rotation cause?

Correct Answer: D) Day & night.

4. What is climate

Correct Answer: A) Long term weather conditions.

5. The term equinox means .....

Correct Answer: A) Equal amount of day light and equal amount of night.

6. What word tells us that a cloud is considered a 'high' cloud?

Correct Answer: D) Cirrus.

7. The modern heliocentric model of planetary motion states that the planets travel around

Correct Answer: B) The Sun in circular orbits.

8. During nighttime cooling, most of the energy radiated by Earth's oceans into space is

Correct Answer: D) Infrared rays.

9. What word tells us that a cloud is considered a 'low' cloud?

Correct Answer: C) Stratus.

10. Match the following word/subject with the topic it relates to the most.Submarine Technology

Correct Answer: D) Oceanography.

11. A wet, cold air mass would be-

Correct Answer: B) Maritime polar.

12. Oceans, rivers, lakes, and glaciers are landforms found in what sphere?

Correct Answer: D) Hydrosphere.

13. Science of Universe.

Correct Answer: C) Astronomy.

14. If the ice covering Antarctica all melted, sea level would rise approximately

Correct Answer: D) 200 feet.

15. What happens to particle spacing when energy is added to a phase?

Correct Answer: A) Particles move farther apart.

16. A volcanic ash layer between sedimentary rocklayers is used by geologists to

Correct Answer: D) Correlate widely separated rock formations.

17. What element is usually used to date fossils?

Correct Answer: B) Carbon-14.

18. What season is March 21st?

Correct Answer: A) Spring.

19. When water becomes to heavy for the clouds to hold and falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet or hail, we are experiencing .....

Correct Answer: C) Precipitation.

20. Primary "P" waves travel through which layers of the Earth?

Correct Answer: A) All layers.