Unit 4- Geoscience Processes

Select all of the answers that would result in a change to landforms on Earth's surface.

• volcanic eruption

• temperature dropping

• flooding loosens dirt to create a mudslide

• the greenhouse effect

• earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Choose the best definition of mechanical weathering.

• when materials like rock start to rust

• when animals cause rocks to break apart

• material is worn down, cracked, or broken apart by wind, water, ice, etc.

• materials that mix with different chemicals to form another rock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which of the following is NOT an example of chemical weathering?

• acid breaks down rock by reacting with it

• rust

• oxidation of a rock

• water freezes in cracks in a rock causing it to break

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

The main cause of seafloor spreading is convection currents in the mantle. True or False?

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which of the following would form from a divergent plate boundary?

• mid-ocean ridge

• Mountains

• island arcs

• ocean trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What evidence supports the theory of plate tectonics?

• how minerals and fossils are distributed

• geographic features

• the continents fit together like a puzzle

• all answers are correct

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What was the ancient supercontinent called?

• Magma

• Pangaea

• North America

• Continental Drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Landslides, mudslides, and rock falls are all examples of erosion by what?

• running water

• wind

• ice

• gravity

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which answer describes seafloor spreading?

• when an earthquake happens

• when the bottom of the ocean breaks apart

• when tectonic plates move together at mid-ocean ridges

• When tectonic plates move apart at mid-ocean ridges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Broken down pieces of rock like sand and gravel are known as what?

• sediment

• magma

• fossils

• debris