Unit 3 Review: Geosphere

Unit 3 Review: Geosphere

By Ms. Saunders

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the movement that creates continents and landforms such as mountains?

• Landslides

• Plate Tectonics

• Volcanic Processes

• Alluvial Movement

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What subatomic particle defines what an element is?

Multiple Select

Which of the following is an element? Select all that apply.

• Carbon

• Carbon Dioxide

• Oxygen

• Water

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What is the name for a naturally-occurring, inorganic solid with a definite chemical composition and an ordered atomic arrangement?

Multiple Choice

What element are the minerals graphite and diamond made of?

• Oxygen

• Tungsten

• Hydrogen

• Carbon

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What is the name for a commercially viable rock? (A rock that contains enough of a mineral or other valuable substance that it can be mined profitably)

Multiple Choice

True or False? Smartphones contain precious metals such as gold.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which country extracts and refines the most Rare Earth Elements?

• USA

• Russia

• China

• Mexico

Multiple Choice

Where can the energy contained in fossil fuels be traced from?

• Coal

• Hydrothermal Vents

• Dinosaurs

• The Sun

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What is the name of the process plants use to convert electromagnetic energy into chemical energy?

Multiple Choice

Are fossil fuels considered renewable or nonrenewable?

• renewable

• nonrenewable

Multiple Choice

What two elements are hydrocarbons made of?

• water and carbon

• helium and carbon

• hydrogen and carbon

• hydro and carbon

Multiple Choice

What is the name AND chemical formula of the simplest kind of hydrocarbon?

• Carbon Dioxide (COOH)

• Methane (CH4)

• Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

• Methane (COOH)

Multiple Choice

What type of coal was formed under the greatest amount of heat and pressure?

• Lignite

• Anthracite

• Bituminous

• Sub-Bituminous

Multiple Choice

What type of coal contains the most amount of energy?

• Lignite

• Anthracite

• Bituminous

• Sub-Bituminous

Multiple Select

Which of the following are true about petroleum (oil). Select all that apply.

• It's a liquid

• It's a fossil fuel

• It can be refined to make multiple products.

• It's mostly made of hydrocarbons

Multiple Choice

True or False? Oil products can be used to make plastic.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE?
All of the carbon in existence is continually recycled in the carbon cycle.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

Organisms that do not decompose can be buried and become what?

• water
• nutrients
• air
• fossil fuels

Multiple Choice

Carbon can be found in...

• The atmosphere
• Soil
• Fossil fuels
• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Which of the following removes carbon from the atmosphere?

• Combustion
• Respiration
• Photosynthesis
• Death

Multiple Choice

Which compound does NOT contain carbon atoms?

• carbon dioxide

• ammonium

• calcium carbonate

• methane

Multiple Choice

In the carbon cycle, producers take in the gas __

• carbon dioxide
• oxygen
• nitrogen
• carbon monoxide

Multiple Choice

How does the carbon in grass become part of a lion?

• The lion eats the grass.

• Carbon from grass doesn't end up in a lion.

• The carbon ends up in the lion's food chain; the lion eats an animal that eats the grass.

• The lion breathes in carbon given out by the plant.

Multiple Choice

Limestone such as chalk is composed mainly of calcium carbonate.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

If you add vinegar to calcium carbonate (or something that contains it such as chalk or seashells), carbon dioxide gas will be released.

• True

• False

• Depends on the length of time that heat is applied

Multiple Choice

Marine organisms make their shells from calcium and

• chloride
• carbonate
• seawater

Multiple Choice

Which atmospheric gas is responsible for increasing the acidity of the ocean?

• Nitrogen

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

• Water Vapor

Multiple Choice

Historically, has the deep ocean been a carbon sink or a carbon source?

• Sink

• Source