Earth Science Test

How do plants help slow soil erosion and prevent landslides?

• Plants absorb water from the wet soil.
• Plant roots hold soil particles together.
• Plant leaves release water from the soil into the air.

How does weathering help form a sandy beach by the ocean?

• Melting glaciers deposit grains of sand.
• Sandstorms deposit sand from nearby deserts.
• Waves break rocks into pieces, making grains of sand.
• Chemicals in the waves dissolve large rocks into sand.

A deep cave was discovered underground.  Scientists found that the walls of the cave were made of limestone.  The cave most likely formed through weathering by____________________.

• glacial ice
• weak acid rain
• heavy wind
• high waves

The layer of the Earth that we live on is the _________________. 

• Crust
• Mantle
• Core
• Asthenosphere

Identify letter C in this picture.  

• Inner Core
• Outer Core
• Asthenosphere
• Lithosphere

As you go deeper in Earth, temperature will increase, but pressure will decrease.

• True
• False

Plate boundaries that move away from each other are called _______________.

• Transform
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Subduction

When one plate is pulled down beneath another plate, this is called ________________.

• Subduction
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Transform

Which of the following is not a force of plate motion.  

• Basal Drag
• Slab Pull 
• Ridge Push
• Earthquakes

The plate boundary that can likely cause an earthquake.  

• Transform
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2