Illuminate Unit 3 Quiz

The model shows numbers 1-5 to indicate where labels are missing in the students’ model. Use the drop-down menus to help complete the labels for the model to represent how energy flows and matter cycles in the formation of different types of rocks

• Cooling, Weathering , Compacting and Cementing, Heat and Pressure , Melting

• Cooling, Compacting and Cementing, Heat and Pressure, Melting , Weathering

• Weathering , Cooling , Compacting and Cementation, Melting, Heat and Pressure

• Compacting and Cementation, Cooling, Heat and Pressure, Melting, Weathering

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Energy is a necessary resource that drives the processes occurring in the rock cycle model shown. Select the type of energy that is MOST important for these rock cycle processes to occur. Then, select the TWO sources of this type of energy.

• Mechanical Energy , putting a book on the shelf and turning a key in a car

• Sound Energy, hearing a car drive by and hearing music play

• Chemical Energy, the energy used by the cells in your body from the food you eat and the energy of combustion in gasoline

• Thermal (heat) Energy, Sun and Earth's Interior

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When the student hit the sugar cubes with the hammer, the sugar cubes broke into pieces. Which rock cycle process is BEST represented by the student’s action?

• Heat

• Compacting

• Weathering

• Pressure

The maps show that millions of years ago, Earth’s continents were in locations different from the locations they are today. Which claim about the change in location of the continents is supported by the pattern of change shown in the maps?

• Tectonic plates are colliding and spreading apart.

• Ocean currents are rotating in a clockwise direction

• Mountain ranges are pushing land masses together.

• Earthquakes are opening spaces between land masses.

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Scientists make the claim that the continents of North America and Eurasia were once located very close to each other. The scientists observed patterns in data to help support this claim. Choose TWO data patterns that will support the scientists’ claim.

• Different animal fossils are found on each continent.

• The same type of animal fossils are found in North America and in Eurasia.

• Only one type of rock contains fossils on each continent.

• The same rock types are found in North America and in Eurasia.

• The coastal edges between North America and Eurasia roughly fit together like puzzle pieces.

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In South America and Africa, there are fossils of a reptile called Mesosaurus. This animal lived in freshwater lakes and ponds near the coast. The map below shows the distribution of places where Mesosaurus fossils have been found. Which statement about Mesosaurus fossils and continental drift is MOST accurate?

• It is unlikely that the same organism would evolve on two widely separated continents.

• Finding the fossils over a wide area helps support the idea of continental drift because it gives scientists many fossils from a very large area to study.

• The changing coastlines are not evidence for or against continental drift.

• Because the Mesosaurus fossils are found on two continents, the continents must have been connected in the past.

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Fill in the correct words to this illuminate answer

The continent of _______________ is currently located in the Southern Hemisphere, and the _______Pole is on the continent. Antarctica is mostly covered with a thick sheet of _______. Scientists have found __________________in the rocks. Scientists use this as ________________ that most likely the ___________has _____________. Scientists could look for similar rocks on other continents for additional evidence

• Antarctica ,South ,ice, tropical fern fossils, evidence, continent, drifted over time.

• Australia, North, fire, ice caps, reasoning, oceans, connect rapidly.

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This map shows the present day locations of some of the continents. The shaded sections in South America and Africa represents two areas where similar sequences and ages of rocks are present

A. Explain why similar rock sequences and ages support the claim that the continents have moved over time.

B. Look at the map of the location of continents 120 million years ago. Based on the map, identify which continent would be the most likely place to find rock sequences and ages similar to these, and explain why.

• A. The similar rock sequences and ages had to form at the same time and under the same conditions. This means that the continents were connected and the rocks on both continents formed at the same time .

  B. Antarctica was located next to Africa so it is likely to have the same rock sequences and ages.

• A. The different rock sequences and ages had to form at the different time and under the different conditions. This means that the continents were not connected and the rocks on both continents formed at the different time .

  B. Australia was located next to Asia so it is likely to have the different rock sequences and ages.

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A student learns that glaciers can form U-shaped valleys on Earth’s surface. Which geoscience process takes MORE time to shape Earth’s surface than it takes a glacier to form a valley?

• a collision of two tectonic plates that lifts up rock layers forming a mountain range

• a landslide that removes part of a hillside

• a volcanic eruption that lays down a layer of a molten rock that hardens

• an earthquake that shifts rock layers, changing the course of a stream

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