WorksheetsEarth Science STAAR Review
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 43mins
Choose the list that best describes how fossil fuels are formed.
Organism growth, burial, volcanic eruptions
Faults in Earth's crust, burial, glacier formation
Organism growth, burial, compaction
Erosion burial, earthquakes
Which diagram shows compaction which leads to the formation of sedimentary rock?
Erosion is major process in the formation of sedimentary rock. What is erosion?
Rocks are broken into smaller pieces that remain the in same location.
Pressure compacts layers of sediment and turns them into rock.
Pieces of soil or rock are carried from one place to another.
Sediment falls to the bottom of a lake to form sedimentary layers.
Plants are growing on the surface of this pond. How do plants like these form fossil fuels?
Dead plants sink to the bottom and get buried by sediment for millions of years.
Dead plants sink to the bottom and get consumed by decomposers.
Dead plants produce carbon dioxide for the fish, which form fossil fuels.
Dead plants get buried for millions of years and form fossils that attract carbon.
Students pour 2 centimeters of light colored sand into a clear container. Then pour in 1 cm of gravel. Finally they pour 2 cm of colored sand. What characteristic of sedimentary rock does this model show?
Sedimentary rock is cemented bits of rock.
Sedimentary rock is made of layers.
Limestone is a type of sedimentary rock.
Sedimentary rock is found in Texas.
The model below shows layers of sediment on the floor of an ocean. Which is the best explanation of how these layers can become rock over years?
Sand in the sediment melts and turns into rock.
The weight of the water compacts the sediment into rock.
Changing water temperatures turn sand in the sediment into rock.
Pollution caused by humans turns the sediment into rock.
Monahans Sandhills State Park in Texas has 4,000 acres of sand dunes. Some as tall as a 6 story building. Which is the most likely way that sand dunes were formed?
rainstorms
tornadoes
earthquakes
strong winds
The shape of a delta can change over time. The size and shape of this delta over time are NOT likely to be changed by -
The amount and size of tides along the shore
The amount and size of sediments carried by the river and streams.
The amount of fishing in the delta
The amount and size of waves from the ocean that reach the shore.
The picture below shows a canyon in Northern Arizona. Which best describes how this canyon was most likely formed?
Floods eroded the sandstone away from the canyon walls.
Glaciers eroded the canyon rock as they melted and moved.
Ice wedged into cracks in the rock and weathered the canyon.
Wind blew large rocks that smashed against the canyon walls.
This wide U-shaped valley is shown in the picture. It was most likely formed by -
Floods eroded the sediment away.
Glaciers eroded the sediment as it melted and moved.
Wind blew large rocks that smashed against the canyon walls.
A hurricane carried away sediment
Some buildings and homes are heated by energy produced from an alternative to fossil fuels. Which is an example of a building or home heated by using an alternative energy source?
A home heated by energy generated by a hydroelectric dam.
A building that has emergency electric generators that run on gasoline.
A home heated by energy produced from a coal power plant.
A building that has furnaces powered by natural gas.
Which shows a person using an alternative energy source to perform a task?
Citizens in a community were surveyed about the type of energy resource they like for a new power plant. The results are shown below. How many citizens chose alternative energy resources?
850
485
365
687
An energy company wants to build a hydroelectric power plant. Which of these characteristics of an area is most important to the development of a hydroelectric power plant?
The area has a cool, rainy climate.
The area is located in a valley with very little wind and frequent heavy fog.
The area has a river that flows rapidly from nearby mountains through a valley.
The area has no geysers or hot springs.
Which alternative energy source is generated beneath Earth's crust and can be used to heat buildings?
Hydroelectric energy
Geothermal Energy
Wind Energy
Solar energy
The diagram below shows rock layers next to a road. Layer 3 contains many plant fossils. Layer 3 most likely formed in which of these environments?
Desert
Forest
Ocean
Tundra
