Earth Science Quiz 41 (20 MCQs)

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1. Submersible

Correct Answer: C) Small underwater research vessel.

2. Earth science is categorized as physical science because.

Correct Answer: C) It deals with the study of living and non-living things.

3. What caused the solar system to form?

Correct Answer: B) The collapse of the solar nebula.

4. The ability to do work or cause change is .....

Correct Answer: A) Energy.

5. Match the following word/subject with the topic it relates to the most.Ocean Depths

Correct Answer: D) Oceanography.

6. What do plates float on?

Correct Answer: B) Upper mantle.

7. Provide clues to Earth's past climate changes

Correct Answer: C) Ice Core.

8. Match the following word/subject with the topic it relates to the most.Star Constellations

Correct Answer: B) Astronomy.

9. The ocean, s surface currents are created and driven by the ..... on the Earth, s surface.

Correct Answer: C) Winds.

10. An explosive volcano made of many layers of ash, lava, and ejected rocks

Correct Answer: B) Composite volcano.

11. A part of the Earth's crust where two tectonic plates are moving toward each other

Correct Answer: D) Convergent boundary.

12. Rocks can be described in three ways:

Correct Answer: D) Hardness, luster, color.

13. Dull, silky, waxy, pearly, and earthy are terms that best describe which property of minerals?

Correct Answer: A) Luster.

14. The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces by natural processes is called .....

Correct Answer: D) Weathering.

15. Most of the oceanic oxygen that began to enter Earth's atmosphere in the early Proterozoic Era was probably produced by

Correct Answer: B) Photosynthesis by cyanobacteria.

16. Which of the following is most likely to occur at a transform boundary?

Correct Answer: A) Earthquakes.

17. Which of the following is the most commonly used energy resource?

Correct Answer: C) Fossil fuels.

18. What instrument or device do astronauts use to study space?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

19. What type of plate boundary created the Himalaya mountains?

Correct Answer: D) Continent-Continent Convergent.

20. The softest mineral on the Mohs Scale is .....

Correct Answer: A) Talc.