STAAR review Earth and Space

The folded mountains in this model form at which type of plate boundary?

• transform boundary
• divergent boundary
• subduction boundary
• convergent boundary

What is one condition that is necessary for a hurricane to form?

• Warm ocean water
• A strong cold front
• Cold ocean water
• A strong warm front

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• peninsula
• volcano
• delta
• plateau

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• the mass of a the plates
• the weight of the plates
• unbalanced force
• gravitational force

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• Barnard’s Star is less bright than the sun, has a surface temperature below 3,800 K, and is red.
• Barnard’s Star is less bright than the sun, has a surface temperature above 3,800 K, and is red.
• Barnard’s Star is brighter than the sun, has a surface temperature below 5,300 K, and is yellow.
• Barnard’s Star is brighter than the sun, has a surface temperature above 5,300 K, and is yellow

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• no longer tilted on its axis
• stopped rotating on its axis
• took an additional month to orbit the sun
• revolved around the sun in the opposite direction

Using the weather map shown, which city has most likely seen an increase in temperature? 

• Houston
• Oklahoma City 
• Boston
• Los Angeles

a slightly oval shaped galaxy

• elliptical
• milky way
• irregular
• spiral

when the tilt of the Earth causes the longest and shortest days of the year

• solstice
• equinox

Process that forms new oceanic crust and moves it.

• seafloor spreading
• convergent plate 
• divergent plate
• mid-ocean ridge