Assessment: Earth and Human Activity

What type of geologic activity occur at a transform boundary?

• earthquakes

• mountains

• volcanoes

• islands

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Pangaea is the most recent super continent to ever exist in the history of earth. T or F?

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What are the types of weathering? Mark all correct answers.

• cold

• chemical

• hot

• physical

This rock was heated and put under pressure over time. What type of rock is this?

• Sedimentary
• Igneous
• Metamorphic

What does the Mohs Scale measure?

• Streak
• Luster
• Hardness
• Cleavage

What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth’s layers?

• crust, outer core, inner core, mantle

• mantle, outer core, inner core, crust

• crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

• outer core, inner core, crust, mantle

Part of the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa have matching fossils within the same series of rock layers. This provides evidence that these two continents were once

• separated by a much larger ocean

• joined together as one land mass

• located near the North Pole

• located in a different hemisphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is formed when a metamorphic rock melts, turns to magma and then solidifies?

• sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock

• igneous rock

• none of the above

The risk of earthquakes is high along the Pacific coast of the United States because

• there have been no earthquakes there lately.

• serious earthquakes are rare east of the Rockies.

• satellites have detected increasing elevation of the ground surface.

• that’s where the Pacific and North American plates meet.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What boundary creates mountains?

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• fast

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2