Geography post-review

The model of the rock cycle below represents how minerals undergo changes to create different types of rocks.

When magma cools down, what type of rock will it become?

• sedimentary

• igneous

• metamorphic

• sediment

The Earth’s crust is divided into sections, called plates. The plates are continuously moving on the surface of the Earth which then form geological features.

Which of the following are the major plates?

• Pacific, Caribbean, African, Eurasian, and North American

• North American, South American, Scotia, Caribbean, and Eurasian

• Arabian, Eurasian, North American, Nazca, and Pacific

• African, Pacific, Eurasian, South American, and North American

A student wanted to conduct a series of tests to identify different minerals. Which list below shows the tests that the student should conduct on each of the different minerals?

• color, taste, shape and size

• hardness, color, luster, and streak

• taste, hardness, color, and size

• streak, size, taste and shape

Alexandra was playing in her yard and came across some minerals. She takes one mineral and scratches the other, what characteristic is she testing?

• hardness

• color

• luster

• streak

Sarah was taking a walk with her friends. She looked down and saw two unknown minerals. When she dragged them across the sidewalk, she noticed that they produced the same color mark, but one scratched the other.

What conclusion could Sarah draw?

• the harness and steaks are the same

• their hardness is the same but the streaks are different

• their hardness is different but their streaks are the same

• the streaks are the same, bur their luster is different

When volcanoes form, magma, or melted rock, rises from underground and produces a bulge. Over time, this bulge grows and increases in pressure until an eruption occurs and magma flows out.

Just before an eruption occurs, the magma is found in which layer of the earth?

• inner core

• outer core

• mantle

• crust

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Which of these best describes the relationship between the inner core, outer core, mantle, crust, asthenosphere, and lithosphere?

• the coolest layers are farthest from the core

• the least dense layers are closest to the core

• the layers with the highest concentration of metals are closest to the crust

• the layers that remain in a molten state are closest to the crust

Ricky is working on a class assignment of building a model of the Earth. While building the model, which layer should he make the thinnest layer?

• inner core

• outer core

• mantle

• crust

Many mountains in the Western United States were formed by volcanic activity. Over time, the movement of water changed the form of some of the rocks originally created when the magma hardened.

The changing of the volcanic rock by water is the process of —

• weathering

• sedimentation

• metamorphosis

• compaction

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Earthquakes are more common in California than they are in Texas because of the movement of which two tectonic plates?

• Pacific and South American Plate

• Eurasian and African

• North American and Pacific

• South American and North American

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