Earth Science Quiz 41 (20 MCQs)

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

Correct Answer: D) Oceanography.

2. What do plates float on?

Correct Answer: B) Upper mantle.

3. Provide clues to Earth's past climate changes

Correct Answer: C) Ice Core.

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

Correct Answer: B) Astronomy.

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

Correct Answer: C) Winds.

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

Correct Answer: B) Composite volcano.

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

Correct Answer: D) Convergent boundary.

8. Rocks can be described in three ways:

Correct Answer: D) Hardness, luster, color.

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

Correct Answer: A) Luster.

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

Correct Answer: D) Weathering.

11. 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.

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

Correct Answer: A) Earthquakes.

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

Correct Answer: C) Fossil fuels.

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

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

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

Correct Answer: D) Continent-Continent Convergent.

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

Correct Answer: A) Talc.

17. The equatorial diameter of the Earth is 12756.274 km and polar diameter of the Earth is.

Correct Answer: C) 12713.505 km.

18. The slow movement of continents from one part of the globe to another through long periods of geological time is called .

Correct Answer: D) Continental drift.

19. Diamond is an example of mineral with

Correct Answer: A) Brilliant Luster.

20. Grass, animals, bacteria, living organisms are found in what sphere?

Correct Answer: C) Biosphere.