Earth Sci Exam

Where does nuclear fusion occur?

• Space
• Radiation Zone
• Photosphere
• The Core

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Energy is created in the core when two _____________ atoms join together to form a ______________ atom.

• helium, hydrogen
• carbon, hydrogen
• nitrogen, helium
• hydrogen, helium

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a dark spot on the photosphere of the sun

• corona
• solar flare
• sunspot
• magnitude

The number of sunspots on the sun varies over a period of how long?

• 1 year

• 15 years

• 10 years

• 11 years

What drives tectonic plate movement? 

• gravity
• coriolis effect
• convection currents
• the earth's magnetic core

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When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct? 

• oceanic
• continental
• neither
• both

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According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, 

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses
• the continents DO NOT move
• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking
• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass

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Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift because...

• it did not agree with their current theory
• Wegener was interested in what Earth was like millions of years ago
• Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis
• Wegener could not identify the force that moved the continents

Planets orbit the Sun in a shape called a(n)

• circle
• ellipse
• focus
• perihelion

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When a planet orbits the Sun, one of the foci of the elliptical orbit is 

• the axis
• the perihelion
• the center
• the Sun

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