2025 ESH CFE Review 1

Despite being 93 million miles from the sun, we feel its warmth. This is an example of which kind of heat transfer?

• Convection

• Radiation

• Conduction

Which of these is NOT evidence that an ice age occurred in a particular area?

• extreme variations in sea levels

• boulders moved far from their source

• glacial striations on desert bedrock

• ocean current salinity changes

What kind of heat transfer is happening in the mantle within Earth?

• Conduction

• Radiation

• Convection

A girl grabs the panhandle and burns her hand. What kind of heat transfer is this?

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

Which type of weather front produces the worst weather (bad thunderstorms, etc.) as it approaches an area?

• warm front

• cold front

• occluded front

• stationary front

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

During the last ice age, was the center of Florida drier or wetter than it is today?

• drier, because ocean levels rose.

• drier, because ocean levels dropped

• wetter, because ocean levels rose.

• wetter, because ocean levels dropped.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Half of California is sliding by the other half on different plates. Which type of plate boundary is this?

• transform

• convergent

• divergent

A scientist built a small tornado in a wind tunnel in his lab. Which type of scientific model is this?

• visual

• computer

• conceptual

• physical

An air mass is being pushed up and over another air mass. The air mass being pushed upwards is a __________.

• cold air mass

• warm air mass

• stationary mass

• jet stream

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

_____ occurs in our oceans as warm water rises to the surface, cools off and sinks, then heats up and rises again.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6