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Soil is made of

• weathered rocks and minerals
• dead plants and animals
• air and water
• all of the above

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What is the heat source for convection in the mantle?

• the Crust
• the Mantle
• the Core

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What is the process that picks up and moves weathered rocks?

• Erosion
• Landslide
• Weathering

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How does a sedimentary rock become a metamorphic rock?

• Heat and pressure

• Melting and cooling

• Weathering/Erosion and Cementation

• Cycling

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Liquid that flows when a volcano erupts

• WATER

• MUD

• LAVA

• MAGMA

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Where does magma rise to the top to become new crust?

• one plate splits into two distinct plates

• one plate grinds against another plate

• two plates separate and move apart from one

  another.

• two plates meet and collide with one another.

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What is happening in the picture?

• layers of the Earth are changing positions

• the inner and outer core are solid

• convection currents are causing the tectonic plates to move

• the mantle is growing

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What happens to a rock when it weathers?

• It settles out of water that is carrying it.
• It creates a valley.
• It forms a delta.
• It breaks into small pieces.

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If carbon dioxide decreases, the energy in the Earth system will...

• increase. because more energy entered than exited

• decrease, because more energy entered than exited

• decrease, because less energy entered than exited

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A climatologist was working with a computer simulation that models Earth’s climate and atmosphere. She set up the controls of the simulation to decrease the amount of methane in the atmosphere. What should happen to the amount of energy absorbed by Earth’s surface?

When methane decreases, the amount of energy absorbed by Earth’s surface should

• change unpredictably.

• stay at a constant level.

• increase.

• decrease.

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