Earth Science Quiz 55 (20 MCQs)

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1. Tides are characterized by rise and fall of the water level in the.

Correct Answer: D) Oceans.

2. What is Pangaea? (MS-ESS1-4)

Correct Answer: A) Super Continent.

3. Following a supernova, the center of a star can collapse and make an ultra dense collection of ..... particles called a neutron star.

Correct Answer: A) Neutron.

4. Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas

Correct Answer: D) Oxygen.

5. Which is true about hotter material in the mantle (convection currents)?

Correct Answer: C) Less dense, rises.

6. A record of ground motion produced by an earthquake

Correct Answer: A) Seismogram.

7. What is the final step of the scientific method?

Correct Answer: C) Conclusion.

8. What increases evaporation?

Correct Answer: B) An increase of temperature.

9. What does the root word ge/e/o mean?

Correct Answer: B) Earth.

10. The four agents of erosion are water, ....., ice, and gravity. What goes in the blank?

Correct Answer: D) Wind.

11. ..... study the ocean

Correct Answer: B) Oceanographers.

12. Which of the following provides evidence that has helped earth scientists determine the age of the earth more precisely?

Correct Answer: C) Radioactive dating.

13. The composition of the atmosphere is constant up to about ..... km above the Earth, s surface with the exception of ozone and water vapours.

Correct Answer: B) 48.

14. The length of time between night and day on Earth varies throughout the year. This time variance is explained primarily by

Correct Answer: C) Earth's angle of tilt.

15. What is earth's revolution?

Correct Answer: A) When earth orbits around the sun.

16. A seawall constructed along a length of oceanfront property can assist a coastal city by .....

Correct Answer: D) Slowing erosion of beach sand.

17. How does a volcano cause a constructive change to the Earth's surface?

Correct Answer: B) It adds new land.

18. These are very common at plate boundaries.

Correct Answer: A) Volcanoes.

19. Algae and plants use water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide to make their own food through a process called what?

Correct Answer: B) Photosynthesis.

20. The mass of the Earth is.

Correct Answer: C) 5.974x10/21 Tons.