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Worksheets13.5 Weeks Exam Review
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
This word is a synonym for "melted".
a)
What is molten?
b)
What is solidified?
c)
What is evaporated?
d)
What is eroded?
2.
The original source of energy for wind power.
a)
What is water?
b)
What is the sun?
c)
What is electricity?
d)
What is air?
3.
The term that describes saving or protecting Earth’s natural resources.
a)
What is Recycling?
b)
What is Reservation?
c)
What is Deforestation?
d)
What is Conservation?
4.
The type of natural resource that is replaced more quickly than it is used up.
a)
What is a natural resource?
b)
What is a fossil fuel?
c)
What is a renewable resource?
d)
What is a nonrenewable resource?
5.
What petroleum, coal, and natural gas are all classified as.
a)
What are renewable resources?
b)
What are fossil fuels?
c)
What are alternative resources?
d)
What are rocks?
6.
The name for the longest division of time in Earth’s geologic history.
a)
What is Precambrian Time?
b)
What is the Cenozoic era?
c)
What is the Mesozoic era?
d)
What is the Paleozoic era?
7.
The principle that says that most geologic change happens gradually.
a)
What is Superposition?
b)
What is Original Horizontality?
c)
What is Uniformitarianism?
d)
What is Catastrophism?
8.
Finding this on a mountain would be evidence that the area was once covered by water.
a)
What is a bone?
b)
What is a tree?
c)
What is a sedimentary rock?
d)
What is a seashell fossil?
9.
The principle that states that older rock layers are usually found below younger rock layers.
a)
What is Superposition?
b)
What is Catastrophism?
c)
What is Uniformitarianism?
d)
What is Original Horizontality?
10.
Paleontologists use index fossils, original horizontality, and superposition to find this.
a)
What is absolute age?
b)
What is rock composition?
c)
What is relative age?
d)
What are caves?
11.
The thickest of the Earth’s three main layers.
a)
What is the mantle?
b)
What is the crust?
c)
What is the lithosphere?
d)
What is the core?
12.
The only layer of the Earth that we have been able to actually dig into.
a)
What is the inner core?
b)
What is the outer core?
c)
What is the mantle?
d)
What is the crust?
13.
The reason why Earth’s inner core is a solid and not a liquid.
a)
What is temperature?
b)
What is pressure?
c)
What is density?
d)
What is composition?
14.
How scientists know about the interior of the Earth.
a)
What is by talking to worms?
b)
What is by digging deep into the earth?
c)
What is by studying seismic waves (earthquake waves)?
d)
What is by studying the movement of electromagnetic waves?
15.
Three things that increase as you travel inward toward the Earth’s core.
a)
What are temperature, density, and pressure?
b)
What are density, mass, and layer thickness?
c)
What are volume, temperature, and depth?
d)
What are pressure, crime, and punishment?
16.
The name of the scientist who proposed the hypothesis that the continents drift.
a)
Who is Richard Wagner?
b)
Who is Harry Henderson?
c)
Who is Harry Hess?
d)
Who is Alfred Wegener?
17.
This was not explained by the hypothesis of continental drift.
a)
Why do the continents drift?
b)
What evidence is there that the continents drift?
c)
What is Pangaea?
d)
Why do mountain ranges appear to cross oceans?
18.
New oceanic crust forms here.
a)
What are subduction zones?
b)
What are mid-ocean ridges?
c)
What are deep sea trenches?
d)
What are transform boundaries?
19.
Symmetrical magnetic stripes in the rocks at the bottom of the ocean support this idea.
a)
What is continental drift?
b)
What is deep geologic time?
c)
What is seafloor spreading?
d)
What is superposition?
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