Earth Science Quiz 54 (20 MCQs)

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

Correct Answer: B) Metamorphic rock.

2. Earth science provides an understanding of history because it reveals .....

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

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

Correct Answer: C) Ice cores.

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

Correct Answer: A) Volume.

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

Correct Answer: A) Tectonic plates.

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

Correct Answer: C) 17, 100 years.

7. Heat rising in the mantle creates ..... boundaries, while the sinking of cold magma creates ..... boundaries.

Correct Answer: C) Divergent, convergent.

8. The lower the barometric (air) pressure is, the worse the weather will be.

Correct Answer: B) Meteorology.

9. Core

Correct Answer: A) The innermost layers of Earth.

10. Which two features are commonly found atdivergent plate boundaries?

Correct Answer: A) Mid-ocean ridges and rift valleys.

11. What are the 4 main spheres of Earth?

Correct Answer: C) Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, Biosphere, and Geosphere.

12. The correct SI unit for measuring length is

Correct Answer: A) Meter.

13. Which type of dating method can be used on rock layers by applying the Law of Superposition?

Correct Answer: A) Relative dating.

14. A ..... force slowly wears a way mountains and other features on the surface of earth.

Correct Answer: B) Destructive.

15. Planetary differentiation (layering of the earth) occurs because of what property of matter?

Correct Answer: B) Density.

16. When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, which season occurs in the Southern Hemisphere?

Correct Answer: B) Winter.

17. The moon is now much cooler that the earth. Why?

Correct Answer: A) Earth is bigger so cools slower.

18. This is the study of the oceans that make up Earth.

Correct Answer: D) Oceanography.

19. The correct SI unit for temperature is .....

Correct Answer: D) Kelvin.

20. What color has the longest wavelength?

Correct Answer: A) Red.