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WorksheetsSecond Semester Exam Review
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
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Class
Date
1.
What should you do during a tornado?
a)
go to the lowest level in the building
b)
lay out in the middle of an open field
c)
hide under an overpass
d)
climb a tree and hold on for dear life
2.
What type of front is this?
a)
warm
b)
cold
c)
occluded
d)
stationary
3.
What is the most common form of solid precipitation?
a)
snow
b)
sleet
c)
hail
d)
rain
4.
What type of cloud is a cirrocumulus?
a)
whispy, puffy
b)
rainy, puffy
c)
tall, layered
d)
rainy, layered
5.
What type of air mass is dry and tropical?
a)
cT
b)
mP
c)
cP
d)
mT
6.
What device is used to measure wind direction?
a)
wind sock
b)
anemometer
c)
thermometer
d)
barometer
7.
What are isotherms?
a)
lines of equal temperature
b)
lines of equal pressure
c)
lines of equal wind speed
d)
lines of wind direction
8.
What is the pressure?
a)
987
b)
75
c)
61
d)
east
9.
What is the pressure like at the equator?
a)
low
b)
high
10.
When is wind speed the highest?
a)
La Nina
b)
El Nino
c)
Normal Conditions
d)
Always the same
11.
Which type of current is the most dense?
a)
cold and increased salinity
b)
cold and decreased salinity
c)
warm and increased salinity
d)
warm and decreased salinity
12.
What would seasons be like in Michigan if there was less tilt than there is now?
a)
less seasonal variation
b)
colder winters
c)
warmer summers
d)
extreme seasonal variation
13.
When are carbon levels highest?
a)
winter
b)
summer
14.
Which of the following is true of mammals at the end of the Cretaceous?
a)
small size
b)
breathe underwater
c)
ate large quantities of food
d)
were cold blooded
15.
Which of the following is an example of coevolution?
a)
life and Earth
b)
whales and trees
c)
fish and flowers
d)
cats and grass
16.
What has given us information about the layers, thickness, and composition of Earth's interior?
a)
earthquakes
b)
tsunamis
c)
volcanoes
d)
gysers
17.
Which type of wave travels through liquids and solids?
a)
p waves
b)
s waves
c)
l waves
d)
r waves
18.
At which type of boundary would a tsunami form?
a)
convergent
b)
divergent
c)
transform
19.
What process lays down material?
a)
deposition
b)
erosion
c)
weathering
20.
Which of the following is not a component of soil?
a)
rock fragments
b)
organic material
c)
water
d)
plastic
21.
What type of weathering changes the composition of a material?
a)
chemical
b)
mechanical
22.
On the pH scale, what is weaker?
a)
1
b)
3
c)
5
d)
7
23.
What is it called when the ground cannot absorb precipitation?
a)
infiltration
b)
runoff
c)
percolation
d)
condensation
24.
What is evaporation from plants called?
a)
transpiration
b)
evaporation
c)
condensation
d)
percolation
25.
What type of surface would be most permeable?
a)
gravel
b)
sand
c)
concrete
d)
solid rock
26.
Which of the following is true of wetlands?
a)
increase flooding
b)
decrease flooding
c)
adds pollutants to soil
d)
increases erosion
27.
What does heat do the the speed of the particles?
a)
speeds them up
b)
slows them down
c)
stays the same
28.
What direction did the glacier that carved out Michigan come from?
a)
north
b)
south
c)
east
d)
west
29.
What layer of the earth is a liquid?
a)
outer core
b)
inner core
c)
crust
d)
mantle
30.
Where does the magnetic field come from?
a)
the Sun
b)
the core
c)
the crust
d)
the Moon
31.
Most of the water on Earth is freshwater.
a)
true
b)
false
32.
95% of the Earth is covered in water.
a)
true
b)
false
33.
How does carbon enter the atmosphere?
a)
burning fossil fuels
b)
subducting plates
c)
precipitation
34.
What is the biosphere?
a)
life
b)
earth
c)
water
d)
air
35.
What time period are most of our fossil fuels from?
a)
carboniferous
b)
cretaceous
c)
archean
d)
holocene
36.
When was the largest mass extinction?
a)
permian
b)
cretaceous
c)
devonian
d)
triassic
37.
Which of the following are considered hard parts?
a)
teeth
b)
eyes
c)
skin
d)
organs
38.
Which type of volcano erupts violently?
a)
composite
b)
shield
39.
Which type of boundary forms when two plates separate?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent o-o
c)
transform
d)
convergent c-c
40.
Which type of plate is more dense?
a)
oceanic
b)
continental
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