Science 8 Quiz #1

Layer of Earth consisting of crust and rigid upper mantle.

• Sedimentary

• Divergent

• Lithosphere

• Mesosphere

Composed of all the water on or near the earth

• Hydrosphere 
• Biosphere 
• Atmosphere 
• Geosphere 

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Wind is part of what sphere of Earth?

• Windosphere
• Atmosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Airosphere

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The process by which water, ice, wind or gravity moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another.

• weathering
• erosion
• deposition
• dumptruck

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This type of weathering occurs when rock is physically broken down into smaller pieces of rock.

• mechanical weathering
• chemical weathering
• erosion weathering
• deposition

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This type of weathering occurs when rocks weaken then break down due to chemical changes in the composition of the rock.

• mechanical weathering
• chemical weathering
• erosion weathering
• deposition

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________ is the bending of rock layers due to stress.

• earthquake

• folding

• plate tectonics

The cycle that powers the ocean currents, weather, and tectonic plates it called

• conduction current
• radiation
• condition current
• convection current

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Warm air rises and the cool air sinks demonstrates this type of heat transfer. 

• conduction
• convection
• radiation
• Insolation