This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Earth Science – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Earth Science Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Minerals are A) Man made. B) Natural. C) From the moon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natural. 2. Cloud formation is likely to occur in rising airbecause rising air A) Expands and cools. B) Expands and warms. C) Contracts and warms. D) Contracts and cools. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expands and cools. 3. Which process or processes change the size and shape of the oceans? A) Subduction only. B) Sea-floor spreading only. C) Both subduction and sea-floor spreading. D) Both drilling for samples and subduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both subduction and sea-floor spreading. 4. What is the order of Earth's layer from top to bottom? A) A rock. B) Mantle, crust, core. C) Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core. D) Crust, mantle, inner core, outer core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core. 5. What can cause weathering? A) Earthquakes, volcanoes, ice. B) Wind, shovels, people. C) Animals, video games, clouds. D) Wind, water, plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wind, water, plants. 6. The formation of the Himalayan Mountains is one example of land features caused by compressive forces. Which action led to the formation of these mountains? A) Seafloor spreading. B) Strike-slip faulting. C) Hot spots. D) Colliding plates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colliding plates. 7. Mountains are part of which earth sphere? A) Geosphere. B) Hydrosphere. C) Cryosphere. D) Lithosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geosphere. 8. How long does it take the Earth to make one REVOLUTION around the Sun? A) 12 hours. B) 24 hours. C) 365 1/4 days. D) 29.5 days. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 365 1/4 days. 9. T8-You want to see if watering your plant makes it grow faster.What is the IV? A) Plant height. B) Watering amount. C) Sunlight. D) Type of plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Watering amount. 10. Centrifugal force pushes the matter away from the center of axis of the rotation Many of other planets are also compressed like that. The most prominent is. A) Venus. B) Mercury. C) Pluto. D) Saturn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saturn. 11. The process by which metamorphic rocks are formed ..... A) Heat and pressure. B) Erosion and deposition. C) Melting and cooling. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heat and pressure. 12. Why are dwarf planets not considered as a regular planet? A) It is not orbiting around a star. B) It has no sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium. C) It has not cleared its neighboring regions of other objects. D) It is not spherical enough. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It has not cleared its neighboring regions of other objects. 13. Which process of the water cycle occurs when water absorbs 2260 Joules of heat energy per gram? A) Melting of ice. B) Condensation of water. C) Evaporating of water. D) Freezing of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evaporating of water. 14. Which soil characteristic allows greater amounts of water retention? A) Large-size particles. B) Small-size particles. C) High-density particles. D) Low-density particles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Small-size particles. 15. The inner core is made of iron that's almost as hot as the sun-why doesn't it melt? A) Iron doesn't melt. B) That's not really very warm. C) Pressure is super high. D) Oceans cool it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pressure is super high. 16. Metamorphic rocks are ..... A) Composed of lava or magma that has cooled to form a solid rock. B) Composed of rocks that have been changed by heat and/or pressure. C) Composed of small particles called sediments. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Composed of rocks that have been changed by heat and/or pressure. 17. Mittens help keep your hands warm in winter because: A) They are conductors of heat. B) They are fuzzy. C) They are conductors of electrical energy. D) They are insulators. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are insulators. 18. What are the two main gases that make up many of the stars in our universe? A) Hydrogen, helium. B) Hydrogen, nitrogen. C) Helium, oxygen. D) Oxygen, nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydrogen, helium. 19. What is a chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate, positioned in an arc shape as seen from above? A) Hot spots. B) Island Arc. C) Volcanic Arc. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Volcanic Arc. 20. The region of permanently frozen water on Earth is called A) Hydrosphere. B) Cryosphere. C) Atmosphere. D) Biosphere. 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