Earth Science Final

Pieces of bedrock material that are broken from a cliff and deposited by a landslide at the base of the cliff are best described as

• rounded and sorted

• rounded and unsorted

• angular and sorted

• angular and unsorted

The narrow, sandy barrier islands in the ocean along the south coast of Long Island were deposited by

• wind

• streams

• glacial ice

• wave action

Arrangement of sediment in moraines

• unsorted, un layered sediments

• Sorted, layered

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

arrangement of sediment in outwash plain

• unsorted, unlayered

• sorted, layered

An increase in the transparency of Earth's atmosphere is often caused by

• a decrease in cloud cover

• a decrease in solar radiation

• an increase in airborne dust particles

• an increase in the duration of insolation

Which hot spot location on Earth’s surface

usually receives the greatest intensity of insolation

on June 21?

• Iceland

• Hawaii

• Easter Island

• Yellowstone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Monsoons develop as a result of

• large changes between the temperatures of a continent and neighboring oceans

• a continent and neighboring oceans having nearly the same temperatures

• air rising over Earth's equatorial region

• air sinking over Earth's polar regions

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Sandstone, limestone, and conglomerate cobbles

are found in a streambed in New York State

where the surrounding bedrock is composed of

shales and siltstones. The most likely explanation

for the presence of these cobbles is that they

were

• weathered from the surrounding bedorck

• formed when shale and silt stone bedrock were eroded

• transported to this area from another region

• metamorphosed from shale and siltstone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The narrow sandy barrier islands in the ocean along the south coast of Long Island were deposited by

• wind

• streams

• glacial ice

• wave action