Geology Final

Using this scale, which mineral can scratch fluorite?

• Talc 
• Gypsum 
• Apatite 
• Calcite 

Rock that forms when magma or lava cools and hardens to become solid, either beneath or on Earth’s surface

• Sedimentary Rock
• Metamorphic Rock
• Igneous Rock
• Rock Cycle

Rock that forms when minerals form from solutions or sediment from older rocks get pressed and cemented together.

• Sedimentary Rock
• Metamorphic Rock
• Igneous Rock

Rock that forms when pressure, temperature, or chemical processes change existing rock.

• Igneous Rock
• Sedimentary Rock
• Metamorphic Rock
• Rock Cycle

This image represents....

• Rift Zone
• Rock Cycle
• Uplift
• Erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

When wind, water, ice and gravity move soil from one place to another.

• glaciers
• composition
• rock slide
• erosion

Scientists think that convection currents that move the plates flow in Earth's

• Continental crust
• oceanic crust
• Asthenosphere
• Lithosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where does molten material from the mantle rise up during the process of sea-floor spreading?

• Along the mid-ocean ridge
• At the north and south poles 
• Along the edges of all the continents near the shoreline and beaches
• at the equator

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The Earth is made up of two types of crust.  Which is more dense?

• Oceanic crust -basalt
• Oceanic crust- granite
• Continental crust- granite
• continental crust- basalt

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3