Science State Test

When oceanic lithosphere descends into the asthenosphere and creates trenches

• subduction

• divergent boundary

• seafloor spreading

• continental rifting

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

How do we know that all seven continents were once connected by a landmass?

• The continents were surrounded by oceans.

• Dinosaur fossils are found on all seven continents.

• The North and South Poles are the coldest places on Earth and are frozen.

• There is different weather on the continents.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Someone discovered a saltwater fish fossil on the shore of a freshwater lake. Why could the fossils be found there?

• The fish was left there by a fisherman.

• The fish moved across the land to get to the lake long ago.

• The fish lived in the area long ago when it was covered by an ocean.

• The fish was left there long ago by a storm.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of event usually marks the end of an Era

• A Mass Extinction

• A Quinceanera

• An earthquake

• A Volcanic Eruption

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

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?

• 25 years

• 200 years

• 400 years

• 800 years

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

What percent of carbon-14 would be left after 11,460 years? (2 half lives)

• 100%

• 75%

• 50%

• 25%

The % of the parent isotope remaining after 1 Half Life.

• 50%

• 25%

• 12.5%

• 6.25%

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Ice cores can trap gases, like carbon dioxide. And increased concentration of carbon dioxide found in a layer of ice is one piece of evidence for ____________.

• climate change

• cell theory

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

What is the Independent Variable?

• amount of fertilizer

• type of fertilizer

• grass growth

• type of grass

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Based on your observations of the prism, select the true statements.

• When light travels through a prism, the light is separated by wavelength.

• Humans see the different wavelengths of visible light as different colors.

• The prism is being used to combine different colors of light.

• The light bends when it enters the prism and again when it leaves the prism.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2