3 Dynamic Earth Practice Test

The type of heat transfer that can occur through empty space (a vacuum) is:

• radiation

• convection

• conduction

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The type of heat transfer that occurs through a solid, or when objects touch each other:

• radiation

• convection

• conduction

The type of heat transfer that occurs when warm air or water rises:

• radiation

• convection

• conduction

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Which Type of tectonic plate collision does not result in volcanoes?

• Continental > < Continenetal

• Continental > < Oceanic

• Oceanic > < Oceanic

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The Himalayan mountains were a result of which type of collision?

• Continental > < Continenetal

• Continental > < Oceanic

• Oceanic > < Oceanic

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Which type of tectonic plate interaction results in a mid-ocean ridge and sea floor spreading?

• Continental > < Continenetal

• Continental > < Oceanic

• Oceanic < > Oceanic

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When a dense oceanic plate is pushed under a lighter continental plate, _____ occurs.

• conduction

• uplift

• subduction

• convection

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The most abundant gas in earth's atmosphere is:

• oxygen

• nitrogen

• methane

• carbon dioxide

The most abundant elements dissolved in seawater are sodium and:

• potasium

• magnesium

• calcium

• chlorine

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Temperature is a measure of what?

• speed of the molecules that make up a substance

• density of a substance

• how close together molecules are in a substance

• the size of the molecules that make up a substance

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