Fall Benchmark-2020

One complete movement of the Earth in its orbit around the sun is called:

• A day

• A year

• high and low tides

• earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

A(n) __________ is created through the movement of liquid metal inside the Earth’s core.

• summer solstice

• axis

• earthquake

• magnetic field

Astronauts can jump higher on the Moon than they can on Earth. Which of the following BEST explains why astronauts can jump higher on the moon.

• The Moon has less mass than the Earth

• The Moon has more mass than the Earth

• The Moon’s atmosphere has less oxygen

• The Moon’s atmosphere has more oxygen.

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It is summer in the Northern Hemisphere when it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Which of the following causes this difference in seasons between the hemispheres.

• Earth’s axis is tilted in relation to the Sun.

• The speed of Earth’s rotation on its axis.

• The curvature of Earth’s surface prevents seasons from occurring simultaneously.

• The Earth get closer to the sun when it is summer

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Sediments form when _____

• magma cools

• metamorphic rocks melt

• sedimentary rock is heated

• igneous rock weathers and erodes

An unusual type of fossil clam is found in rock layers high in the Swiss Alps of Europe. The same type of fossil clam is found in the Rocky Mountains of North America. From this, scientists conclude that

• glaciers carried the fossils up the mountains

• the Rocky Mountains and Swiss Alps are both volcanic in origin

• clams once lived in mountains, but have since evolved into sea-dwelling creatures.

• the layers of rocks in which the fossils were found are from the same geologic age.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Chemical weathering ______.

• is caused by freezing and thawing

• breaks apart rocks by physical processes

• occurs when atomic reactions dissolve or change the minerals in the rocks

• Combination of all 3 other answers

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

All of the following are examples of erosion except:

• The wind in the desert blows sand against a rock

• A glacier picks up boulders as it moves

• A flood washes over a riverbank, and the water carries small solid particles downstream

• An icy winter causes the pavement in a road to crack.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Most volcanoes and earthquakes will occur

• high in the mountains

• under the ocean

• in the middle of tectonic plates

• along plate boundaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The picture presented here shows how a type of rock forms at the bottom of the ocean. What type of rock is this?

• lava

• igneous

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

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