Earth Systems

What is this boundary creating?

• A trench

• Sea floor spreading

• Weathering

• Convergent Boundary

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Once the sediments collect and become tightly compacted, minerals can form cementing the sediments.

• True

• False

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What does this picture represent

• Crystalline structure of a mineral.

• Formation of lipids.

• Food.

• Lattice of a chemical in your favorite sports drink.

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Which fossil is the oldest?

• Coral

• Trilobite

• Fern

• Grastropod

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Caves are formed by ____________________.

• Animals digging under the ground.

• Plants and rainwater making their way down to the soft rock under the ground.

• Rain water eroding away rock making holes in the rock.

• Slightly acidic water seeping into the ground and dissolving limestone over thousands of years.

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The reason water freezing and thawing causes erosion is _____________________.

• Water shrinks when it becomes ice.

• Water expands when it freezes causing the rock to breakdown.

• Running water is very corrosive.

• Ice is more corrosive than liquid water.

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How can fossil 1 on both continents when they are thousands miles apart?

• The fossil animal must have been able to swim that far.

• The fossil animal must have been able to fly across the ocean.

• Both South America and Africa must have been connected at some point in the past.

• The fossil animal evolved at the same time on different continents.

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Choose 2 answers that describe what must have happened to this rock formation:

• Result of a volcano

• Result of wind erosion.

• Result of sedimentary rock formation.

• Result of a fire.

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What do (1) and (2) represent?

• (1) Igneous Rock (2) Lava

• (1) Igneous Rock (2) Magma

• (1) Metamorphic Rock (2) Lava

• (1) Sedimentary Rock (2) Lava

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What is going on in this picture?

• Metamorphic Rock is forming

• Lava Rock is forming

• Sedimentary Rock is forming

• Igneous Rock is forming

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