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WorksheetsEarth and Space quiz
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
What are the planets in order (including Pluto), starting at the sun?
Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
Venus, Sun, Earth, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, Neptune.
Sun, Mercury, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
Sun, Mercury, Earth, Saturn, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Venus, Pluto.
What holds the planets together?
Sedimentary Rocks
Waning Gibus
Gravity
Tectonic Plates
What is a rotation?
When a planet or moon spins around the sun once.
When a planet or moon spins around and object once.
What is a revolution?
When a planet or moon travels around the sun once.
When a planet or moon travels around an object once.
What are the layers of the earth in order?
Crust, Mantle, Inner core, Outer Core
Mantle, Crust, Outer Core, Inner Core
Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
Describe the Crust
Thick and made of rock.
Thin and made of rock
Thick and made of magma
Thin and made of tectonic plates.
Describe the Mantle
Thick and made of earthquakes
Thin and made of magma
Thick and made of magma
Thin and made of rocks
Describe the Outer Core
Thick and made of the inner core
Thin and made of the crust
Thin and made of solid Iron
Thick and made of liquid iron
Describe the Inner Core
Thin and made of iron
Thick and made of solid iron
Super thin and made of magma
Super thick and made of the outer core
What is the theory of continental drift?
The idea of the plates moving on the convecting mantle slowly
Plates moving in the outer core
Earthquakes happening in the inner core
Plates moving on the cold crust
What is Pangea?
A small continent made of a few counties
What Europe used to be before it was Europe
The supercontinent that existed long ago
The sections of the world before the continents
What are tectonic plates? How fast do they move?
Pieces of crust moving around the surface: cm per year (as fast as your nail grows)
Pieces of crust moving around the surface: meters per year (as fast as your hair grows)
Pieces of the inner core moving in the mantle: cm per year (as fast as your nail grows)
Pieces of the inner core moving in the mantle: meters per year (as fast as your hair grows)
List 3 types of plate boundaries
Divergent, Advergent, Transform
Convergent, Divergent, Transform
Convergent, Allegiant, Divergent
Plate, Convergent, Transform
What is an earthquake and why does it happen?
Volcanic eruptions caused by earthquakes
Shaking ground from sedimentary rocks
Ground shaking caused by volcanic eruptions
Shaking of ground caused by tectonic plate mountains/ transform plate boundaries
What instrument is used to measure earthquakes
Seismogram
Seismograph
Epicenter
Centimeter Measurer
What is an epicenter and how is it found?
An epicenter is where the tectonic plates move around.
Epicenter is the location of an earthquake, found by triangulation using three seismographs
And epicenter is the center of a volcano found using earthquakes
Epicenter is the location of an earthquake, found by triangulation using three seismograms
What is the rock cycle?
The water cycling happening in a rock
Crushing rocks until they are powder
People cycling over rocks
The cycling of earth's materials
What are the three types of rocks and how do they become other rocks?
Igneos = Melting , Sedimentary= Weathering, Metamorphic=Heat + pressue
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Bootyy
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Do you think you are going to do well on this test?
Yes
No
List the moon phases in order
New Moon, First Quarter, Waning Crescent, Last Quarter, Waxing Crescent.
New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Waning Crescent.
New moon, waxing crescent, full moon, waning crescent,
Waxing Crescent, new moon, First quarter, waning gibbous, waxing gibbous, full moon.
What are three pieces of evidence for tectonic plate movement? Choose 3 answers!
Continents fit together and Distribution of Fossils
Wildfires spreading easily because of dead and dry trees.
Rock types and ancient climate zones
Locations of earthquakes, volcanos, and mid-ocean ridges.
