Earth's Patterns

Cooling & crystalization produce

• igneous rocks

• metamorphic rocks

• sedimentary rocks

what is the rock cycle.

• molten rock that is stored underground.

• rock material that forms where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.

• a process that changes one type of rock into another type of rock.

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Each rock type can follow only one pathway of the rock cycle.

• True

• False

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An avalanche is an example of which process?

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Volcanic Eruption

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Layers of sediment forming at the bottom of the ocean floor is an example of

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

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This layer includes all dry land and the Ocean floor.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

The ___________ rotation causes day to turn into night and night into day.

• Sun's

• Earth's

• Star's

• Moon's

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The _______ of the Earth on its axis causes the position and length of the shadow to change.

• rotation

• revolution

• spin

• tilt

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Which of the following causes

seasons on Earth?

• the rotation of Earth on its axis

• the orbit of the moon around Earth

• Earth’s tilted axis as it revolves

  around the sun

• the sun’s revolution around Earth

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Why do shadows made by the Sun move over the course of a day?

• because the weather changes

• because someone moves the object

• because the Sun appears to move across the sky each day

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