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Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 41mins
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Class
Date
1.
A triangular area where a major river divides into several smaller parts that usually flow into a large body of water.
a)
barrier island
b)
erosion
c)
dredge
d)
delta
2.
The process or state of being eroded.
a)
levee
b)
dredge
c)
storm surge
d)
erosion
3.
A deep valley with steep walls that cut into the earth caused by erosion from running water.
a)
Valley
b)
Canyon
c)
Gulf
d)
River
4.
Glaciers scraping rocks across the earth’s surface
a)
Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
Deposition
5.
Wind blasting sand at rock and carving out arches
a)
Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
Deposition
6.
Water getting into cracks, freezing, and breaking the rocks or pavement apart
a)
Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
Deposition
7.
A deep valley with steep walls that cut into the earth caused by erosion from running water.
a)
Valley
b)
Canyon
c)
Gulf
d)
River
8.
A landmass with an elevation higher than a hill.
a)
Ocean
b)
Gulf
c)
Mountain
d)
Valley
9.
Waves dropping sand on the beach
a)
Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
Deposition
10.
Agents of weathering
a)
living things, water, wind, ice, and heat
b)
formed from the remains of once-living things
11.
What is a shape or feature on the Earth's surface?
a)
landform
b)
geography
c)
natural resources
d)
environment
12.
What is this landform?
a)
mountain
b)
canyon
c)
coast
d)
cliff
13.
What is this landform?
a)
valley
b)
hills
c)
river
d)
lake
14.
What is weathering?
a)
A type of climate
b)
A transport of sediment
c)
The breakdown of rock
d)
The aging of rock
15.
a)
A. Ocean
b)
B. Hills
c)
C. Plains
d)
D. Canyon
16.
What is EROSION?
a)
the movement of sediments
b)
the breaking down of sediments
c)
the dropping of sediments
d)
squeeze
17.
What is DEPOSITION?
a)
hold
b)
the breaking down of sediments
c)
the movement of sediments
d)
the dropping of sediments
18.
What is this landform?
a)
Plain
b)
Delta
c)
Canyon
d)
Valley
19.
What is this landform?
a)
canyon
b)
hills
c)
mountain
d)
delta
20.
Coal is
a)
living things
b)
a rock which can be burned to produce energy
21.
Agents of weathering
a)
living things, water, wind, ice, and heat
b)
formed from the remains of once-living things
22.
Sedimentary rocks...
a)
layered rocks
b)
volcano rocks
c)
heat and pressure rocks
23.
The study of the Earth's features
a)
Geopgraphy
b)
Plain
c)
Coast
24.
Which of the following is an example of a trace fossil?
a)
A skeleton preserved in a tar pit
b)
A footprint of an extinct animal
c)
A mummy buried in ice
d)
An insect preserved in amber
25.
What two forces can turn fossils into fossil fuels?
a)
Lift and thrust
b)
Wind and rain
c)
Temperature and pressure
d)
Motion and time
26.
Where can you find a fossil?
a)
They are rare
b)
Anywhere
c)
My backyard
d)
In an airplane
27.
What is a Fossil?
a)
A Bone
b)
Nasty
c)
the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past
d)
The Bone of a dead thing
28.
What can we learn from fossils
a)
Nothing
b)
How past environments have changed overtime
c)
Water
d)
land
29.
Can there be a fish fossil on a desert mountain and why
a)
Yes
b)
No
c)
Yes because the climate could have changed overtime
d)
No because the earth always stays the same
30.
what can fossils teach us
a)
Rawr Im a dinsore
b)
How climate has changed overtime
c)
How earths surface has changed and how past environments have changed
d)
Both B and C
31.
Which statement is true about the fossil record?
a)
It is a record of all living things
b)
It shows how our climate has remained the same over time
c)
It provides evidence for history of life on Earth
d)
It does not support the theory of evolution
32.
Fossils are usually found in
a)
igneous rock
b)
extrusions
c)
intrusions
d)
sedimentary rock
33.
Scientists who study fossils are called
a)
Geologists
b)
Paleontologists
c)
Fossil Scientists
d)
Meteorologists
34.
Which of the following is NOT something you could learn from a fossil?
a)
The size of the animal
b)
What the animal ate
c)
The color of the animal
d)
Where the animal lived
35.
_____ is any living thing, plant or animal, even you!
a)
A paleontologist
b)
An organism
c)
A fossil
d)
A rock
36.
Why do bones and teeth remain as part of some fossils?
a)
they are white
b)
bones are large
c)
the parts are hard
d)
bones decay easily
37.
Which of the following events happens FIRST?
a)
Slowly, minerals in the water replace the bone.
b)
Sediment covers the bone.
c)
An animal dies.
d)
The bone is no longer a bone, but a rock copy.
38.
A fossil is ____.
a)
a dead rotten animal
b)
the remains of things that lived a long, long time ago
c)
a plant that dried up
39.
A student is planning an experiment to find out how the height from which he drops a ball affects how high the ball bounces. The dependent variable is the _____.
a)
Diameter of the ball
b)
Force acting on the ball
c)
Height that the ball bounces
d)
Height from which the ball is dropped
42.
This variable in an experiment is the one being deliberately changed by the scientist.
a)
dependent variable
b)
independent variable
c)
data
d)
control group
41.
If a student thinks an apple a day keeps the doctor away what are some constants they need to consider?
a)
the number of apples eaten by test subject, who eats them, amount of sleep testing subjects recieve
b)
the apples
c)
the number of doctors visits
d)
the age of the test subjects, the general sleep and meals eaten by test subjects
42.
This variable in an experiment is the one being deliberately changed by the scientist.
a)
dependent variable
b)
independent variable
c)
data
d)
control group
43.
A comprehension test was given to students after they had studied textbook material either in silence or working together.
What is a possible control variable?
What is a possible control variable?
a)
Comprehension Test Results
b)
The thickness of the text book
c)
All students working in Silence
d)
Number of students working together and in Silence
44.
How many students spent 7 hours doing homework that week?
a)
1
b)
3
c)
5
d)
6
45.
What length of the worm is most common?
a)
6.5 cm
b)
7.0 cm
c)
6.75 cm
d)
7.75 cm
46.
Based on the graph, the plant grows best with what amount of sunlight?
a)
1 hour
b)
3 hours
c)
6 hours
d)
9 hours
47.
Takes millions of years to form.
a)
hydroelectric
b)
renewable
c)
solar
d)
fossil fuels
48.
Energy source used to replace fossil fuels.
a)
alternative
b)
renewable
c)
nonrenewable
d)
recyclable
49.
Solid fossil fuel formed from ancient plants.
a)
coal
b)
oil
c)
petroleum
d)
natural gas
50.
Type of fuel formed by once living things.
a)
biofuel
b)
fossil fuel
c)
alternative
d)
renewable
57.
Most plastic is made from oil.
a)
True
b)
False
56.
Another name for oil.
a)
coal
b)
natural gas
c)
petroleum
d)
alternative
53.
Type of rock formed by compaction and cementation.
a)
igneous
b)
sedimentary
c)
metamorphic
d)
natural gas
54.
When sediment is pressed or squeezed together.
a)
cementation
b)
compost
c)
celebration
d)
compaction
55.
One advantage of solar energy is that it is nonpolluting and a free energy source.
a)
True
b)
False
56.
Another name for oil.
a)
coal
b)
natural gas
c)
petroleum
d)
alternative
57.
Most plastic is made from oil.
a)
True
b)
False
58.
Main disadvantage to solar energy.
a)
Produce too much energy.
b)
Causes wind.
c)
Expensive.
d)
Causes heat.
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