UNIT ASSESSMENT REVIEW FEB 2025-HICKS

A third grade parent is making a model of the solar system for little Jimmy. Jimmy says the planets need to be glued in the correct order. Which planet would be the fourth planet from the Sun and is known as the "Red

Planet?"

• Mercury

• Earth

• Venus

• Mars

• Jupiter

Answer explanation

Remember the saying:

My-Mercury

Very-Venus

Excited-Earth

Mother-Mars

Just-Jupiter

Served -Saturn

Us-Uranus

Nachos-Neptune

THIS IS A RECALL QUESTION!!!!!!!

Draw how a student should model the day and night cycle using a basketball for the Sun and a styrofoam ball with a pencil stuck through it, like an axis. Make sure you put an arrow to show the Earth's rotation. Make sure to LABEL the Sun, Earth and AXIS.

Erosion takes moves sediments to a new location. What is a synonym for moves?

• deposits

• shatters

• stagnates
• transports

What agent of erosion moves sediments to a new location the FASTEST?

• glacier

• wind

• a moving river with rapids

• a slow moving river

What agent of erosion moves sediments to a new location the SLOWEST?

• glacier

• wind

• a moving river with rapids

• a slow moving river

Sand dunes form in the desert when wind erodes and _______________ sand grains on desert vegetation or a shrub.

How do ALL fossil fuels form?

• WEDCC

• organic material dies

  compaction

  cementation

• organic material dies

  buried in sediments

  heat+pressure

  millions of years

  fossil fuels

• organic material dies

  buried in sediments

  heat+pressure

  instantaneously

  fossil fuels

Draw where a delta would form and label HOW the the delta forms. (Weathering, Erosion, or Deposition)

What a resources that the Earth cannot make more in your lifetime called?

• Renewable

• Non-renewable

What a resources that the Earth CAN make more in your lifetime called?

• Renewable

• Non-renewable