Earth Science Review

Where can the oldest layer be found?

• The top layer
• The middle layer
• They are all the same age
• The bottom layer

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How are fossils created?

• Traces of organisms get turned into stone.
• Dead organisms are quickly buried for millions of years.
• Animals get trapped.
• All of the above

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Which layer formed first?

• Rock Layer W
• Rock Layer X
• Rock Layer Y
• Rock Layer Z

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Finding the fossils of trees in an area that is currently a desert without much life might tell us that the area, millions of years ago - 

• was heavily eroded by strong winds
• received enough rain to support a forest
• suffered very powerful earthquakes
• was destroyed by the impact of meteorites

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Several wooly mammoth fossils have been found. Mammoths, which lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, were covered with thick fur.  Based on the evidence, mammoth fossils tell us that the area in which they are found - 

• has too many humans 
• no longer has large animals 
• was, at one time, very cold
• receives more rain that it used to 

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When a continental plate converges with an oceanic plate, what happens?

• the continental plate is subducted
• the oceanic plate is subducted
• both plates rise and form mountains
• both plates are subducted and form a trench

Which of the following occurs because of convection currents?

• Tectonic plates on the crust move.
• The mantle increases in size.
• Pressure in the crust increases.
• Pressure in the crust decreases.

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Which type of plate boundary DOES NOT cause volcanoes?

• Convergent
• Transform
• Divergent

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The Andes Mountains were formed because of this type of boundary.

• convergent
• divergent 
• transform

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The cycle of the moon lasts about a _.

• day
• year
• week
• month

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