EARTH

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What is the definition of the crust?

• 2nd layer of the Earth

• dome shaped mountian

• outer layer of the Earth

• the center of the Earth

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What is the shaking of the Earth’s crust caused by a release of energy?

• Earthquake

• Epicenter

• Fault

• Plate

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Which of the following is NOT a cause of an earthquake?

• Collapse of Cavern

• Eruption of Volcano

• Lightning Strikes

• Moving Tectonic Plates

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Earthquakes happen every day. Most are too small for humans to notice.

• True

• False

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What are earthquakes?

• The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface

• Masses of earth sliding down cliffs or mountains

• A rotating column of air causing mass destruction

• A gigantic wave

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The crust is broken into many peices called ...

• plates

• ashes

• countries

• boundries

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Are plates always moving?

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Many earthquakes happen along the borders of...

• Countries

• Tetonic Plates

• Climate Zones

• None of the above.

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Where the earthquake begins on surface.

• epicenter

• joint

• fault

• focus

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What is an epicenter? 

• Where an earthquake started

• The surface right above where an earthquake started 

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Most earthquakes happen along the _________________. 

• coast

• faults

• desert

• directions

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Earthquakes under the water can cause _________________________________.

• tornadoes

• tsunamis

• lightening

• hailstorms

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Many earthquakes happen along the borders of...

• Countries

• Tetonic Plates

• Climate Zones

• None of the above.

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The magnitude of an earthquake is measure by an instrument called

• Seismic Waves

• seismograph

• Richter Scale

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The thinnest layer of earth

• Mantle

• Crust

• Core

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A sudden and violent shaking of the ground.

• Earthquake

• Tsunami

• Volcanic Eruption

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Pangea is...

• an Italian food

• another name for an earthquake

• the Pacific plate

• when all the continents were together

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An instrument that measures the vibrations/shaking during an earthquake is called...

• a seismograph

• the Richter scale

• thermometer

• a graduated cylinder

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What mnemonic device can you use to remember the names of the planets in order from the Sun outward?

• My Sad Mom Gave Us Pretty Noodles Today

• My Very Sad Mother Just Gave Us Noodles

• My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles

• My Very Education Mother Just Gave Us Pretzels

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One rotation of Earth is equal to

• a day.

• a year.

• a month. 

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If Earth rotated slower, we would have...

• shorter days.

• longer days.

• shorter years.

• longer years.

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Which biome is the driest?

• Desert

• Tundra

• Taiga

• Rainforest

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Which biome has wide-open fields of grass?

• Taiga

• Grasslands

• Temperate Forest

• Rainforest

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Which biome has the most variety of plants and animals?

• Temperate Forest

• Rainforest

• Tundra

• Grasslands

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Which biome is home to cacti, scorpions, coyotes, kangaroo rats, and lizards?

• Desert

• Grasslands

• Temperate Forest

• Rain Forest

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Which biome is home to lions, zebras, wildebeests, giraffes, and elephants?

• Grasslands

• Tundra

• Rainforest

• Temperate Forest

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Which biome do we live in?

• Grasslands

• Taiga

• Rainforest

• Temperate Forest

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Which biome produces over 50% of the world's oxygen?

• Rainforest

• Temperate Forest

• Grasslands

• Taiga

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In which biome does an organism have to be able to conserve water to survive?

• Rainforest

• Taiga

• Desert

• Temperate Forest

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The term "terrestrial" means

• land.

• water.

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Which biome is hot and humid all year round with plenty of rain?

• Tundra

• Tropical Rain Forest

• Taiga

• Temperate Forest

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This biome is much like a cold desert.

• tundra

• taiga

• boreal forest

• grassland

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This biome has very long, cold winters, and short, cool summers.

• taiga

• desert

• tundra

• rainforest

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Would a desert have a large variety of predators?

• No, because there are few plants.

• No, because they don't like cacti.

• Yes, because there are a lot of lizards.

• Yes, because animals like cacti.

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Which animal would be found in the African grassland?

• zebra

• sloth

• polar bear

• brown bear

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What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic

• ocean and upper

• lower and upper

• pizza and subway

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Which crust is thicker

• ocean

• continental

• bread

• pizza

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What is the inner core composed of?

• Basalt

• Granite

• Iron and Nickel

• Molten (liquid) Metals

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If you traveled from the center of Earth to the surface, the pressure would...

• increase

• decrease

• stay the same

• unsure

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What was the name given to all the continents when they were joined as one super continent

• Supreme Continent

• United States

• Eurasia

• Pangea

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This layer is made up of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock.

• outer core

• mantle

• crust

• inner core

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The thinnest layer of the Earth is?

• Mantle

• Lithosphere

• Athenosphere

• Crust

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This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel

• Outer Core

• Mantle

• Inner Core

• Crust

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This layer of Earth is the thickest?

• crust

• outer core

• mantle

• inner core

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What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic

• ocean and upper

• lower and upper

• pizza and subway

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Which layer of the earth has the lowest temperature?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

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What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth's layers?

• crust, outer core, inner core, mantle

• mantle, outer core, inner core, crust

• crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

• outer core, inner core, crust, mantle

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Which crust is thicker

• oceanic

• continental

• bread

• pizza

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Two thirds of the Earth’s mass is in this layer.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

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What are the four systems of the Earth?

• atomsphere

  biosphere

  geosphere

  hydrosphere

• hemisphere

  annosphere

  chemosphere

  petrosphere

• atmosphere

  uttersphere

  geosphere

  hydrosphere

• lunarsphere

  spirosphere

  geosphere

  unosphere

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What system of the Earth is this?

• hydrosphere

• atmosphere

• geosphere

• biosphere

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What system of the Earth is this?

• hydrosphere

• atmosphere

• geosphere

• biosphere

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What system of the Earth is this?

• hydrosphere

• atmosphere

• biosphere

• geosphere

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What is the Earth's system, geosphere?

• The system that includes the rocks, minerals and landforms that shape Earth.

• The system that has a mixture of gases surrounding Earth

• The system that has combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet. It includes water in all three states

• The system that has combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet. It includes water in all three states

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What is Earth's system, atmosphere?

• The system that includes the rocks, minerals and landforms that shape Earth.

• The system that has a mixture of gases surrounding Earth

• The system that has combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet. It includes water in all three states

• The system that has combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet. It includes water in all three states

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What is the Earth's system, hydrosphere?

• The system that includes the rocks, minerals and landforms that shape Earth.

• The system that has a mixture of gases surrounding Earth

• The system that has combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet. It includes water in all three states

• The system that has combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet. It includes water in all three states

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What is Earth's system, biosphere?

• The system that has combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet. It includes water in all three states

• The system that has a mixture of gases surrounding Earth

• The system that has combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet. It includes water in all three states

• The system that has combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet. It includes water in all three states

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What system of the Earth is this?

• Hydrosphere

• atmosphere

• geosphere

• biosphere

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Arkansas has a fault zone. What is the name?

• New Madrid

• New Mexico

• Old South

• Reelfoot

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What is this called?

• The Ring of Fire located in the Atlantic Ocean

• The Ring of Fire located in the Arctic Ocean

• The Ring of Fire located in the Pacific Ocean

• The Ring of Fire located in the Gulf of Mexico

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The Geosphere is

• The area between the crust and mantle of the Earth

• The area between the inner and outer core of the Earth

• The area from the outside of the Earth to the middle of the Earth

• The area above the Earth's crust

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The outermost layer of Earth is called

• Mantle

• Crust

• Core

• Ellisoid

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What is the MOST IMPORTANT layer of the Earth and why?

• The crust because it has lots of gold and silver

• The mantle because is has hot molten rocks

• The crust because it holds the Earth's history

• The core because it holds the Earth toether

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Earth is the ____ planet from the sun.

• 2nd

• 4th

• 3rd

• 6th

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What are the planets, in order, from the closest to the sun to the farthest from the sun

• Mercury

  Venus

  Earth

  Mars

  Jupiter

  Saturn

  Uranus

  Neptune

• Mercury

  Venus

  Jupiter

  Earth

  Mars

  Saturn

  Neptune

  Uranus

• Mars

  Jupiter

  Mercury

  Venus

  Earth

  Saturn

  Uranus

  Neptune

• Neptune

  Uranus

  Saturn

  Jupiter

  Mars

  Earth

  Venus

  Mercury

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What are the 4 steps of rock formation?

• Depth Press

  Composition

  Sedimentation

  Decompression

• sedimentation

  compaction

  deposition

  cementation

• deposition

  sedimentation

  compaction

  cementation

• cementation

  compaction

  deposition

  sedimentation

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What is the Law of Superposition

• Older rocks are closer to the earth's surface.

• Younger rocks are closer to the Earth's surface.

• Little rocks are closer the core of the Earth.

• Bolders are closest to the Earth's crust

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What are geologists?

• Experts that study the Earth's flowers

• Experts that study the Earth's forests

• Experts that study the Earth's temperture

• Experts that study the Earth's crust

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A paleontologist is a scientist who studies the history of life on Earth through the fossil record

• a scientist who studies the history of life on Earth through the fossil record

• a scientist who studies the history of all scientist.

• a scientist who studies the history of plate tectonic on Earth

• a scientist who studies the history of dentistry on Earth

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What is the definition of core?

• the 2nd layer

• the center of the Earth

• molten rock

• outer layer of the Earth

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Earth is not flat or completely round...

The Earth is an irregularly shaped called?

• ball shaped

• ellipsoid

• earth shaped

• preninal

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What is the definition of mantle?

• 2nd layer of the Earth, made up of magma

• center of the Earth

• pieces of the Earth's crust

• top of the volcano

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What is the definition of core?

• the 2nd layer

• the center of the Earth

• molten rock

• outer layer of the Earth

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What is the definition of core?

• the 2nd layer

• the center of the Earth

• molten rock

• outer layer of the Earth

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What is the definition of dormant?

• sleeping

• extinct

• active

• invisible

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Temperature _____________________ as you go deeper into the earth.

• increases

• decreases

• goes up and down depending on the layer

• stays the same

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Is the outer core a liquid or solid?

• liquid

• solid

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Approximately 70% of the world's composite volcanoes are located around the Pacific Ocean in a region called the ____________. 

• Ring of Fire

• Volcano Ring

• Nucleus of Volcanoes

• Center of Fire

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Volcanoes can be found...

• on land

• under water

• on islands

• all of the above

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Once magma reaches the earth's surface it is called.....

• Silica

• Rock

• lava

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What type of volcano is this

• composite volcano

• shield volcano

• cinder cone volcano

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CONVERGENT BOUNDARY

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DIVERGENT BOUNDARY

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SUBDUCTION ZONE

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TRANSFORM BOUNDARY

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Shield Volcanos are

• tall and pointed

• small and pointed

• low and spread out

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What kind of volcano is this

• composite volcano

• shield volcano

• cinder cone volcano

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Lava and Magma

• are different types of volcanic rock

• are the same but lava is out of the ground

• are the same but magma is out of the ground

• lava is denser than magma

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If a volcano can not erupt any more it is called

• active

• inactive

• dormant

• extinct

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The Hawaiian Islands were formed

• above a divergent fault

• above a convergent fault

• above a strike-slip fault

• above a hotspot in the middle of a plate

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To try and predict a Volcanic eruption scientists measure

• earthquake activity

• escaping gases

• changes in the angles of the volcano sides

• all the above

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Volcanoes that can erupt at any time

• Active Volcano

• Dormant Volcano

• Extinct Volcano

• Composite Volcano

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Volcanoes that are “resting” but can wake up and erupt

• Active Volcano

• Dormant Volcano

• Extinct Volcano

• Composite Volcano

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Volcanoes that are dead but are unlikely to ever wake up

• Active Volcano

• Extinct Volcano

• Dormant Volcano

• Composite Volcano

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Melted rock that is found below ground

• Dirt

• Lava

• Volcano

• Magma

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A scientist that studies volcanoes.

• Vulcanologist

• Seismologist

• Volcanologist

• Meteorologist

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One of the biggest risks of volcanic ash is

• Breathing it in

• Being burned alive

• Warming the planet

• Destroying aircraft

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What is the definition of an extinct volcano?

• the volcano is active

• the volcano is sleeping

• will never erupt again

• could erupt again

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What is the definition of mantle?

• 2nd layer of the Earth, made up of magma

• center of the Earth

• pieces of the Earth's crust

• top of the volcano

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What is a dormant volcano?

• molten rock

• the center of a volcano

• will never erupt again

• a volcano that is sleeping, but could erupt agian

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What is the definition of the crust?

• 2nd layer of the Earth

• dome shaped mountian

• outer layer of the Earth

• the center of the Earth

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What is a cinder cone volcano?

• top of the volcano

• an opening in the Earth's crust

• molten rock

• cone shaped mountian

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What is magma?

• pieces of the Earth's crust

• molten rock inside of a volcano

• small rock

• plates that meet

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What is a shield volcano?

• a volcano that will not erupt again

• cone shaped mountian

• dome shaped mountian

• magma

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Definition of a volcano

• an opening in the Earth's crust

• crater

• vent

• mantle

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What is a crater?

• snow

• outer layer

• top of the volcano

• small rock

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What is lava?

• Molten rocks inside a volcano

• Molten rock outside a volcano

• small hot rocks

• steaming cinders of ash

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What is a central vent?

• the center of the volcano where the magma comes up from

• the top of the volcano

• the center of the Earth

• outer layer of the Earth

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what are tectonic plates?

• the center of the Earth

• molten rock

• rocks

• pieces of the Earth's crust

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What is a magma chamber?

• the center of the Earth

• a large underground pool filled with liquid rocks found beneath the surface of the Earth

• thin rocky outer layer

• a volcano that is sleeping