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Earth and Space quiz

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the planets in order (including Pluto), starting at the sun?

a)

Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

b)

Venus, Sun, Earth, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, Neptune.

c)

Sun, Mercury, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

d)

Sun, Mercury, Earth, Saturn, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Venus, Pluto.

2.

What holds the planets together?

a)

Sedimentary Rocks

b)

Waning Gibus

c)

Gravity

d)

Tectonic Plates

3.

What is a rotation?

a)

When a planet or moon spins around the sun once.

b)

When a planet or moon spins around and object once.

4.

What is a revolution?

a)

When a planet or moon travels around the sun once.

b)

When a planet or moon travels around an object once.

5.

What are the layers of the earth in order?

a)

Crust, Mantle, Inner core, Outer Core

b)

Mantle, Crust, Outer Core, Inner Core

c)

Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust

d)

Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core

6.

Describe the Crust

a)

Thick and made of rock.

b)

Thin and made of rock

c)

Thick and made of magma

d)

Thin and made of tectonic plates.

7.

Describe the Mantle

a)

Thick and made of earthquakes

b)

Thin and made of magma

c)

Thick and made of magma

d)

Thin and made of rocks

8.

Describe the Outer Core

a)

Thick and made of the inner core

b)

Thin and made of the crust

c)

Thin and made of solid Iron

d)

Thick and made of liquid iron

9.

Describe the Inner Core

a)

Thin and made of iron

b)

Thick and made of solid iron

c)

Super thin and made of magma

d)

Super thick and made of the outer core

10.

What is the theory of continental drift?

a)

The idea of the plates moving on the convecting mantle slowly

b)

Plates moving in the outer core

c)

Earthquakes happening in the inner core

d)

Plates moving on the cold crust

11.

What is Pangea?

a)

A small continent made of a few counties

b)

What Europe used to be before it was Europe

c)

The supercontinent that existed long ago

d)

The sections of the world before the continents

12.

What are tectonic plates? How fast do they move?

a)

Pieces of crust moving around the surface: cm per year (as fast as your nail grows)

b)

Pieces of crust moving around the surface: meters per year (as fast as your hair grows)

c)

Pieces of the inner core moving in the mantle: cm per year (as fast as your nail grows)

d)

Pieces of the inner core moving in the mantle: meters per year (as fast as your hair grows)

13.

List 3 types of plate boundaries

a)

Divergent, Advergent, Transform

b)

Convergent, Divergent, Transform

c)

Convergent, Allegiant, Divergent

d)

Plate, Convergent, Transform

14.

What is an earthquake and why does it happen?

a)

Volcanic eruptions caused by earthquakes

b)

Shaking ground from sedimentary rocks

c)

Ground shaking caused by volcanic eruptions

d)

Shaking of ground caused by tectonic plate mountains/ transform plate boundaries

15.

What instrument is used to measure earthquakes

a)

Seismogram

b)

Seismograph

c)

Epicenter

d)

Centimeter Measurer

16.

What is an epicenter and how is it found?

a)

An epicenter is where the tectonic plates move around.

b)

Epicenter is the location of an earthquake, found by triangulation using three seismographs

c)

And epicenter is the center of a volcano found using earthquakes

d)

Epicenter is the location of an earthquake, found by triangulation using three seismograms

17.

What is the rock cycle?

a)

The water cycling happening in a rock

b)

Crushing rocks until they are powder

c)

People cycling over rocks

d)

The cycling of earth's materials

18.

What are the three types of rocks and how do they become other rocks?

a)

Igneos = Melting , Sedimentary= Weathering, Metamorphic=Heat + pressue

b)

Booty

c)

Bootyy

d)

Booootyyyy

19.

Do you think you are going to do well on this test?

a)

Yes

b)

No

20.

List the moon phases in order

a)

New Moon, First Quarter, Waning Crescent, Last Quarter, Waxing Crescent.

b)

New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Waning Crescent.

c)

New moon, waxing crescent, full moon, waning crescent,

d)

Waxing Crescent, new moon, First quarter, waning gibbous, waxing gibbous, full moon.

21.

What are three pieces of evidence for tectonic plate movement? Choose 3 answers!

a)

Continents fit together and Distribution of Fossils

b)

Wildfires spreading easily because of dead and dry trees.

c)

Rock types and ancient climate zones

d)

Locations of earthquakes, volcanos, and mid-ocean ridges.