Earth Science 1

Earth is __________ old

• 6000 years

• 4.6 billion years

• 4.6 million years

• 6.4 million years

Olympus Mons is a volcano located on

• Venus

• Mars

• Neptune

• Mercury

Halite is another name for

• lead

• NaCl

• oil/petroleum

• coal

What location gives us the best chance to find life?

• Mercury

• Venus

• Europa

• Pluto

The Himalayas are being formed by this plate boundary

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• subduction

Diamonds are a very hard mineral or a _______ on the Moh's Scale?

• 1

• 7

• 10

• 3

The outer core is mostly

• solid rock (Si, O)

• solid metal (Ni, Fe)

• liquid metal (Ni, Fe)

• liquid rock (Si, O)

Talc is a ______ on the Moh's Scale?

• 10

• 1

• 7

• 3

An ionic bond...

• is also a Van der Waals bond

• is super strong

• has oppositely charged ions

• shares electrons

Continental crust is mostly

• basalt

• granite

• sandstone

• limestone