Earth Science Quiz 20 (20 MCQs)

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

Correct Answer: B) 75.

2. What does the Earth's rotation cause?

Correct Answer: D) Day & night.

3. What is climate

Correct Answer: A) Long term weather conditions.

4. The term equinox means .....

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

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

Correct Answer: D) Cirrus.

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

Correct Answer: B) The Sun in circular orbits.

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

Correct Answer: D) Infrared rays.

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

Correct Answer: C) Stratus.

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

Correct Answer: D) Oceanography.

10. A wet, cold air mass would be-

Correct Answer: B) Maritime polar.

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

Correct Answer: D) Hydrosphere.

12. Science of Universe.

Correct Answer: C) Astronomy.

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

Correct Answer: D) 200 feet.

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

Correct Answer: A) Particles move farther apart.

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

Correct Answer: D) Correlate widely separated rock formations.

16. What element is usually used to date fossils?

Correct Answer: B) Carbon-14.

17. What season is March 21st?

Correct Answer: A) Spring.

18. 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.

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

Correct Answer: A) All layers.

20. Who is the "Father of Modern Science" ?

Correct Answer: D) Galileo.