Earth Science Year End Review

What does this image best represent?

• the El Nino effect
• The La Nina Effect
• The warm currents of the Gulf Stream
• Last season's Hurricane results

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Which phase of the moon is represented in this diagram?

• new moon
• first quarter
• full moon
• last quarter/third quarter

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What is the 2nd phase of the Moon cycle as seen here in this image?

• Waning Gibbous
• Waxing Gibbous
• Waxing Crescent
• Waning Crescent

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

If the  half-life of a radioactive group of atoms is 100 years, then how old is the rock if there have been two half-lives?

• 50 years
• 100 years
• 200 years
• 25 years

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Which region of Virginia is East of the fall line?

• The Piedmont
• the Coastal Plain
• the Valley and Ridge
• the Blue Ridge

What type of rocks contain fossils and coal?

• intrusive igneous
• extrusive igneous
• metamorphic
• sedimentary

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what causes day and night?

• rotation
• revolution
• solstice
• equinox

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

 ______________ metamorphic rock have visible layers or elongated grains (stripes) 

• Extrusive
• Foliated
• Intrusive
• Non-foliated

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Granite is a type of _________-grained rock. 

• Fine
• Glassy
• Course
• Porphyritic 

Obsidian cooled _____________. 

• Very Slowly 
• Rapidly
• Not enough information 
• Semi-slow

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