EES Final Review Part 1

How does energy from the sun maintain life on Earth?

• It heats Earth’s atmosphere, which helps level temperatures on Earth and creates biomes more favorable for life to exist.

• It evaporates ocean’s water and the forms oxygen in the atmosphere that organisms need.

• It is absorbed by the mantle, which drives plate tectonics to form new land masses for organisms to live.

• It stops destruction of the magnetic field around Earth that protects all life forms.

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Mountaintops are somewhat rounded and without many vertical cliffs. What caused the shape of these mountaintops?

• Folding and faulting of rock formations

• weathering and erosion

• Divergence of continental plates

• Earthquakes

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What causes the movement of groundwater in an area?

• water from an aquifer to surface water

• water from streams and rivers to watersheds

• the movement of surface water and precipitation through infiltration of the soil and rock

• surface water through impermeable rock

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What will increase runoff and infiltration in an area?

• Digging wells

• Drought

• Contour plowing farmland

• Too much rain

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The current temperature in City X is higher than in City Y. Based on the diagram, which explains this temperature difference?

• It is nighttime in City Y

• City X is closer to the Sun

• It is winter in City Y

• City X is in the Northern Hemisphere

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What occurs when the sun, moon, and Earth are aligned in a relatively straight line?

• An increase in temperature near the equator

• A height difference between low tide and high tide

• More earthquakes near the equator and fewer at the poles

• A decrease in global wind patterns

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Lower levels of solar radiation striking the earth...

• decreased carbon dioxide levels

• increased phytoplankton activity

• decreased rates of photosynthesis

• Increased incidents of skin cancer

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At which location would earthquakes not be found?

• 4

• 2

• 1

• 3

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Urbanization affect erosion rates....

• It causes a decrease in erosion rates because there is less vegetation holding the soil in place.

• It causes an increase in erosion rates because the grade of the land has been flattened.

• It causes a decrease in erosion rates because the grade of the land has been flattened.

• It causes an increase in erosion rates because there is less vegetation holding the soil in place

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When water freezes in the cracks of rocks, ice wedging can occur. What is ice wedging?

• Tectonic Process

• Depositional Process

• Physical/ Mechanical weathering

• Chemical Weathering