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WorksheetsTrimester Review Honors
Total questions: 78
Worksheet time: 39mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is absolute dating?
a)
Tells an age in numbers
b)
Which rock layer is older or younger
c)
To tell how old your cousin is.
d)
To conirm is the couple is actually dating
2.
What evidence is there that tectonic plates move?
a)
Fossils
b)
Someone told us
c)
You can feel them move
d)
They are still together
3.
What do divergent boundaries cause?
a)
Sea Floor Spreding
b)
They dont cause anything
c)
mountains
d)
guyotes
4.
What is the way minerals shine in light?
a)
color
b)
streak
c)
luster
d)
hardness
5.
What is a mineral's resistance to being scratched?
a)
hardness
b)
luster
c)
streak
d)
color
6.
What is color?
a)
the way the mineral shines in light
b)
the outward appearence hue of the mineral
c)
a minerals resistance to be scratched
d)
the color of the powder if the mineral when scratched on a porrcelain tile
7.
What is double refraction?
a)
When minerals "glow" under UV light
b)
when minerals react to a magnet
c)
When a mineral continues to glow after the UV light has been turned off.
d)
when a mineral splits an image into two images,when you look through it
8.
What is the color of a mineral that you can taste?
a)
clear
b)
brown
c)
black
d)
dark grey
9.
Which one is not a cause for an earthquake?
a)
Impact of meteor
b)
Eruption of volcanoes
c)
Tsunamis
d)
Stress caused by friction during plate movement
10.
What instrument is used to measure the intensity of an earthquake wave?
a)
Siesmogram
b)
Siesmograph
c)
Siesmoscale
d)
geiger counter
11.
What is the record of movement that is recorded by a device used to measure the intensity of earthquakes?
a)
Siesmograph
b)
Siesmoscale
c)
electronic message
d)
Siesmogram
12.
At what plate boundries do earthquakes accur?
a)
Transform
b)
Convergent
c)
Divergent
d)
All of the above
13.
True or False: A collapsing cavern can create an earthquake?
a)
true
b)
false
c)
DO NOT PICK THIS
d)
DO NOT PICK THIS
14.
What is it called when soil acts like water causing building foundations to fail?
a)
The Earthquake Effect
b)
foundation failure
c)
liquefaction
d)
none of the above
15.
What is the only material S-waves can travel through?
a)
S-waves can travel through all materials
b)
S-waves can't travel through any materials
c)
gases
d)
solids
16.
What is the scale used to measure Earthquake Magnitude?
a)
Richter Scale
b)
Seismograph
c)
Hardy Scale
d)
Lennord Scale
17.
In which state do the most earthquakes occur?
a)
California
b)
Alaska
c)
Texas
d)
Oklahoma
18.
Which of these states has an average of zero earthquakes?
a)
Alaska
b)
Pennsylvania
c)
Hawaii
d)
All of the above
19.
What are minerals?
a)
A solid
b)
has definte chemical compound
c)
occurs naturally
d)
all of the above
20.
How does a mineral form?
a)
Solidifying from magma or lava
b)
Being left behind after water evaporates
c)
Changed by heat and pressure
d)
All of the above
21.
What is a mineral that is non native?
a)
gold
b)
salt
c)
diamond
d)
copper
22.
What are some hazards of earthquakes?
a)
Explosions and fires
b)
Tsunamis/Flooding
c)
Collapsing of buildings
d)
all of the above
23.
What is the focus of an earthquake?
a)
When people think the earthquake's going to stop
b)
The safe place to go during an earthquake
c)
The place where it is happening above ground
d)
The point on the faut plane at which the earthquake occurs
24.
What is moment magnitude?
a)
measures of the size of the earthquake in terms of energy released
b)
how fast the earthquake is moving
c)
The aftermath of the earthquake
d)
When the earthquake occurs
25.
What plate boundary causes the most volcanoes and earthquakes?
a)
Subduction boundaries
b)
Transform
c)
Divergent
d)
Collision
26.
How do you calculate specific gravity?
a)
Weight of Mineral in Water/Weight of Mineral in Air
b)
Weight of Mineral in Air/ Weight of Mineral in Water
c)
(Weight of Mineral in Air minus Weight of Mineral in Water)/Weight of Mineral in Air
d)
Weight of mineral in air- Weight of mineral in water
27.
What mineral below has a smell?
a)
Calcite
b)
Sulfur
c)
Granite
d)
Limestone
28.
What is the scale to measure hardness?
a)
Moh's Scale
b)
Scalabrine's Scale
c)
Yeudah Scale
d)
Ricther Scale
29.
What mineral is magnetic?
a)
Gold
b)
Lithium
c)
Graphite
d)
magnetite
30.
What are the two classifications for metamorphic rocks?
a)
Foliated and Non-foliated
b)
Felsic and Mafic
c)
Coarse and Fine
d)
Hard and Soft
31.
What are spheres of silica filled with crystals that are often found in limestone formations?
a)
Felsic
b)
Geode
c)
Clastic
d)
Nodules
32.
Which is not a foliated metamorphic rock?
a)
Slate
b)
Schist
c)
Gneiss
d)
Limestone
33.
Halite, gypsum and limestone are examples of...
a)
Chemical Sedimentary Rock
b)
Foliated Rock
c)
Non-foliated
d)
Felsic Rock
34.
What is the arrangement of layers in a sedimentary rock?
a)
Foliation
b)
Stratification
c)
Clastic
d)
Mafic
35.
Which is NOT a major rock type?
a)
Igneous
b)
Metamorphic
c)
Foliated
d)
Sedimentary
36.
What is the difference between lava and magma?
a)
Magma is below the surface and lava is above the surface
b)
Lava is hotter than magma
c)
Lava is yellow and magma is orange
d)
Magma has bits of minerals and lava has bits of rocks
37.
What are the two classifications that are formed by magma and lava?
a)
Felsic and Mafic
b)
Intrusive and extrusive
c)
Light and Dark
d)
rocks and minerals
38.
What lava is smooth and ropey and is non-explosive?
a)
Pahoehoe
b)
ash
c)
AA
d)
Lapilli
39.
What is tephra?
a)
Solid pieces erupted from magma
b)
groundwater heated by magma
c)
solid framents of lava produced in eruptions
d)
clouds of tephra mixed with gases
40.
What is the difference between a caldera and a crator?
a)
Caldera is smaller than a crator
b)
caldera is larger than a crator
c)
Caldera blows steam then expands
d)
opening from lava and tephra
41.
What is a vent?
a)
Solid pieces of tephra
b)
opening from lava and tephra flows
c)
water and magma come into contact like a hottub
d)
very explosive eruptions
42.
What is the law of Superposition?
a)
The law in which Layers of rock lay on top of eachother, where the youngest is on the bottom and the oldest is on the top.
b)
The law in which rocks are placed in it's natural position, where is can be erodoed easily.
c)
The law in which Layers of rock lay on top of each other, where the youngest is on the top, and the oldest on the bottom.
d)
The law in which construction workers lay rocks to put them in their natural position.
43.
what is the diffrence between independent and dependent variables?
a)
inependent variables you change in an experiment
b)
there is no difference
c)
dependent variables you change in an experiment, independent variable stay the same
d)
the scientist controls the dependent variable
44.
what is NOT a step in the scientific method?
a)
ask a question
b)
do background reaserch
c)
draw a conclusion
d)
complete multiple experiments
45.
what is a dependent variable?
a)
a variable whose value depends on that of another
b)
a variable that is not dependent on others
c)
a variable that is a whole number
d)
none of the above
46.
what was the name of the super continent?
a)
pangea
b)
america
c)
noblea
d)
thordeal
47.
how do transform boundries move?
a)
slide past each other
b)
move apart
c)
move together
d)
one over top of the other
48.
how do convergent boundries move?
a)
move apart
b)
move together
c)
slide past each other
d)
one goes over the other
49.
what do transform boundries make?
a)
faults
b)
volcanoes
c)
mountains
d)
oceans
50.
what does NOT form from a subducting boundry?
a)
mountains
b)
earthquakes
c)
volcanoes
d)
subduction zone
51.
What lava is rough and jagged?
a)
ash
b)
Aa
c)
pahoehoe
d)
lava
52.
What is a block?
a)
solid piece of tephra eurupted from volcano
b)
liquid that hardens and falls
c)
a cone chaped vaolcano
d)
a type of lave
53.
what is lava?
a)
Above ground
b)
below ground
c)
the solid piece of rock from volvano
d)
the largest volcano
54.
what is a caldera?
a)
a crator larger than 1 mile
b)
the smallest crator ever
c)
the biggest crator ever
d)
a form of lava
55.
what is used to date plants?
a)
Carbon 14
b)
Carbon 17
c)
Uranium 238
d)
Uranium 14
56.
Which one is a classification of metamorphic rock?
a)
Foliated
b)
Detrital
c)
Chemical
d)
Organic
57.
A mineral's resistance to being scratched is?
a)
Streak
b)
Luster
c)
Hardness
d)
None of the above
58.
What kind of rock forms when lava or magma cools?
a)
Igneous
b)
Metamorphic
c)
Sedimentary
d)
All of the above
59.
What type of lava is thin and high in metal content?
a)
Felsic
b)
Clastic
c)
Sedimentary
d)
Mafic
60.
What does the crust float on that allows it to move?
a)
Asthenosphere
b)
Lithosphere
c)
Mantle
d)
Inner core
61.
Which one is NOT a cause of plate movement?
a)
Slab Pull
b)
Ridge Push
c)
Mantle Convection
d)
Gravity
62.
What is an example of a transform boundry?
a)
Clarence Fault
b)
San Andreas Fault
c)
Alpine Fault
d)
All of The Above
63.
What is a hypothesis?
a)
a random guess to a question
b)
a random guess to the question that is based on current knoweledge
c)
an educated guess to the question that is based on proir scientific knoweledge
d)
none of the above
64.
What is a variable?
a)
a variable is something that can change either naturally or on purpose
b)
something that never changes
c)
what the scientist kept the same in both the control group and the experimental group.
d)
none of the above
65.
What is an independent variable?
a)
The effect of what you change in the experiment
b)
What you change in an experiment
c)
The group you change nothing in
d)
None of the above
66.
What is a control group?
a)
The thing you change in an experiment
b)
the group that the experimental group is compared to
c)
Things that stay constant in an experiment
d)
The effect of what you change in an experiment
67.
which of these partial lists of the scientific method steps are in the correct order?
a)
Question, Research, Test, Conclude
b)
Data, Question, Analyze, Conclude
c)
Conclude, Data, Question, Research
d)
Research, Test, Analyze, Conclude
68.
What is composed of minerals, glass, and organic matter.
a)
Minerals
b)
Rocks
c)
Sediments
d)
all of the above
69.
What rock is composed of layers?
a)
Igneous
b)
Sedimentary
c)
Metamorphic
d)
Minerals
70.
What rock is composed of cooling lava or magma.
a)
Metamorphic
b)
Igneous
c)
Sedimentary
d)
Minerals
71.
What is Molten rock beneath the earths surface?
a)
Magma
b)
Lava
c)
Rocks
d)
Minerals
72.
What type of rock is granite?
a)
Intrusive Igneous rock
b)
Extrusive Igneous rock
c)
Non- Foliated metamorhic rock
d)
Foliated metamorphic rock
73.
What is molten rock above the surface?
a)
Magma
b)
Lava
c)
Gases
d)
Pyroclastic flow
74.
What is NOT an important gas in magma?
a)
water vapor
b)
carbon dioxide
c)
sulfer
d)
nitrogen
75.
Is a shield volcano...
a)
the largest volcano
b)
have non-explosive eruptions
c)
was built up from numerous lava flows
d)
all the above
76.
What is the common rock type of a composite volcano?
a)
andesite
b)
basalt
c)
silica
d)
limestone
77.
Which one is a hazard associated with volcanoes?
a)
Ashfall
b)
Ashflow
c)
Mudflow
d)
All of the these
78.
What is an example of a hot spot?
a)
Alppalachian Mountains
b)
lava tube
c)
Hawaiian Islands
d)
A mid-ocean-ridge
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