ES SOL Prep 1

How does pollution get into the Chesapeake Bay from ​agricultural farmlands in Southampton County?

• erosion and deposition sediment

• runoff from the watershed

• wind currents caused by the Coriolis effect

• air pollution dumped into the Chesapeake Bay by rain

What would happen to the tides if the moon was closer to the ​Earth

• They would drop

• The tides are not effected by the moon

• They would rise

• They would stay the same

Which phases of the moon causes the spring tides

• New moon

• 1st quarter

• 3rd quarter

• waning gibbous

Which of the following steps would come first in the formation of a fossil?

• The organism is buried with sediment that has been deposited on top of it

• Rock layers form from this hardening mud or sand and creates rock

• An aquatic organism dies and the body settles in the water

• The sediment over time hardens, such as the water drying out and the ​sediment hardening

What rock is formed by the weathering erosion and deposition

• igneous

• metamorphic

• intrusive

• sedimentary

Which of the following rocks is formed by melting and crystallization

• granite

• schist

• sandstone

• conglomerate

If limestone is subjected to heat and pressure which of the following rocks would it become?

• granite

• shale

• marble

• sandstone

What was responsible for the creation of oxygen and associated ​with the formation of the present atmosphere as we know it?

• The eruption of many volcanoes at the beginning of the Earth

• The Coriolis effect of the air currents

• The change in atmosphere after the moon was formed

• cyanobacteria in the ocean that used carbon dioxide in the air and water

Based on the above diagram, what would the gases in the Earth's atmosphere have been?

• carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, water vapor

• carbon dioxide and methane

• hydrogen and helium

• nitrogen and oxygen

What were the gases in the Earth's atmosphere after the moon was formed?

• nitrogen and oxygen

• hydrogen and helium

• carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and water vapor

• nitrogen and hydrogen