Earth Science Quiz 53 (20 MCQs)

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1. When geologists want to compare the ages of rock found in two different places, they look at the .....

Correct Answer: A) Fossil Record.

2. What kind of rock is made from cooled magma/ lava?

Correct Answer: A) Igneous rock.

3. A large irregularly shaped object in space that orbits our Sun

Correct Answer: C) Asteroid.

4. What is the definition of orbit?

Correct Answer: C) All of the planets, moon, and other space objects going around the sun.

5. What objects do scientists use light-years to measure the distance between the objects?

Correct Answer: A) Stars to Stars.

6. As the Earth moves round the sun, the Northern Hemisphere and shortest day in the Southern Hemisphere?

Correct Answer: A) 6.

7. The dropping off of sediment as the motion of the wind or water slows or comes to a stop.

Correct Answer: C) Deposition.

8. Melted, liquid rock that reaches Earth's surface

Correct Answer: D) Lava.

9. T7-Jacob wants to record his results for the temperature of each day in the past week. What graph or table should he use?

Correct Answer: D) Line graph.

10. Which planet is farthest from the Sun?

Correct Answer: A) Neptune.

11. T8-The Independent Variable is represented on which Axis?

Correct Answer: B) X.

12. How does the redshift of distant galaxies support the Big Bang Theory?

Correct Answer: B) Expansion means we probably started from one point.

13. Valleys created by downcutting streams are ..... shaped

Correct Answer: C) V.

14. What is a large cloud of gas and dust where stars are born or explode at the end of their lives?

Correct Answer: A) Nebula.

15. Today, the area of ice-covered land has reduced to ..... million square kilometers.

Correct Answer: B) 15.5.

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

Correct Answer: B) Metamorphic rock.

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

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

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

Correct Answer: C) Ice cores.

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

Correct Answer: A) Volume.

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

Correct Answer: A) Tectonic plates.