Final Exam Review 3

How are earthquakes, sound, and light waves alike?

• They carry matter
• They can be seen
• They transmit energy
• They travel in space

A plant begins to bend toward sunlight. What is this called?

• bending
• refraction
• tropism
• reflection

Which best summarizes the order of energy flow in a food chain?

• sun to decomposers to producers to consumers
• sun to consumers to decomposers to producers
• sun to producers to consumers to decomposers
• sun to producers to decomposers to consumers

Which type of soil is the best for farming?

• clay
• silt
• sand
• loam

When two continental plates meet what do they form?

• Volcano
• Mountains
  Mountains
• Oceans
• Rift Valley

What causes the movement of tectonic plates?

• gravity
• convection currents in the mantle
• energy from earthquakes
• rotation of liquid rocks in the core

Which environment would produce soil at a faster rate?

• an environment located in warm wet regions
• an environment that consists of many slopes
• an environment without any vegetation
• an environment with high rates of erosion

Why does the Earth have different seasons?

• because of the distance between Earth and the sun
• because of the speed of Earth as it rotates on its axis
• because the amount of light blocked by the moon on its axis
• because of the tilt of the Earth on its axis as it moves around the sun

Any living thing

• rock
• organism
• water
• soil

What happens to the energy as you move up the energy pyramid?

• It stays the same
• It increases
• It decreases
• It goes  up and down