Escape Middle School Science

The diagram represents materials and processes that form three rock types. The rock cycle is a model that shows how all rocks are

• transformed into other rock types

• unchanging and remain the same

• formed from magma

• made from buried sediments

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The graphs show some selected properties of Earth’s atmosphere. Identify the air temperature at the stratopause and the mesopause.

• Stratopause = 0 °C

  Mesopause = -90 °C

• Stratopause = 50 °C

  Mesopause = 80 °C

• Stratopause = 15 °C

  Mesopause = -100 °C

• Stratopause = 40 °C

  Mesopause = 12 °C

The diagrams, labeled A through C, represent enlarged sections of three different types of tectonic plate boundaries. Match the main type of plate motion represented by the arrows to the diagrams A, B, and C.

• Plates Moving Apart

• B

• Plates Sliding Past Each Other

• C

• Plates Colliding

• A

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Moon phases are caused by the

• revolution of the Moon around Earth

• revolution of Earth around the Moon

• daily rotation of Earth on its axis

• daily rotation of the Moon on its axis

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For an observer in New York State, the Sun appears to move across the sky in a general path from

• west to east

• east to west

• north to south

• south to north

During which process in the water cycle is moisture lost from land surfaces?

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

• runoff

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What type of air mass is most likely to form over an ocean near the Equator?

• warm and humid

• warm and dry

• cold and humid

• cold and dry

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The map below shows a portion of Earth. The dots on the map represent areas of earthquake activity. In general, if Earth’s most active volcanic areas were indicated on the same map, where would these volcanic areas be located?

• at the North and South Poles

• mainly in the centers of the continents

• evenly distributed over Earth’s surface

• in the same areas as active earthquakes

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The diagram represents materials and processes that form three rock types. Two processes that change metamorphic rock to igneous rock are

• uplift and erosion

• heat and pressure

• melting and solidification

• burial and cementation

The graph below shows the mass and volume of three different samples of the same mineral, X, Y, and Z. Based on the graph, the volume of a 120-gram sample of this mineral is

• 40 cm3

• 50 cm3

• 60 cm3

• 70 cm3