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UNIT 1 Early Atmosphere and Ocean 2025s

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What produced oxygen within the early stages of our atmosphere?
a)
Plants
b)
Volcanos
c)
Galactic Debris
d)

cyanobacteria

2.

What was the effect of volcanoes on the Earth's early atmosphere?

a)

Volcanoes released gases to form the atmosphere

b)

Volcanoes released water vapour

c)

Volcanoes released gases and water vapour

d)

Volcanoes changed the landscape

3.

What was the Earth's early atmosphere like ?

a)

Similar to Mars and Venus. A large amount of carbon dioxide,little or no oxygen small amounts of other gases, such as ammonia and methane

b)

Similar to Mercury. A large amount of oxygen, sodium and hydrogen.

c)

Similar to Jupiter. A large amount of hydrogen and helium.

d)

Similar to Pluto. A large amount of nitrogen.

4.
What gas needed to be established within the Earth's atmosphere before the atmosphere was able to absorb and maintain heat?
a)
Hydrogen
b)
Oxygen
c)
Nitrogen
d)
Carbon dioxide
5.
Where did the oxygen in the early atmosphere come from?
a)
bolide impacts
b)
early plant photo-synthesis
c)
seafloor spreading
d)
volcanic activity
6.

Earth's Haden (2nd) atmospheric composition resulted from ____.

a)
volcanic eruptions
b)
crustal rebound
c)
Evapo-transpiration
d)
physical weathering
7.
What form of energy transfer causes ocean currents, air circulation, and plate tectonics?
a)
Conduction
b)
Radiant
c)
Convection
d)
Luminosity
8.
This gas was in high concentrations in the early atmosphere, and later condensed to form Earth's oceans. 
a)
oxygen
b)
carbon dioxide
c)
sulfur oxides
d)
water vapor
9.

Which of these gases come from erupting volcanoes?

a)

water vapour and carbon dioxide

b)

ethane and carbon monoxide

c)

oxygen and sulphur dioxide

d)

hydrogen and helium

10.

The air we breathe is made mostly of:

a)

argon

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

nitrogen

d)

oxygen

11.

The atmosphere of the early Earth had all of the following gases except _____________________

a)

carbon dioxide

b)

carbon monoxide

c)

oxygen

d)

water vapor

12.

What happened to the Earth at about 4 billion years ago?

a)

oceans first formed

b)

solid rock started to form

c)

volcanoes showed up

d)

continents started to drift

13.
Around 2.2 billion years ago, bacteria started producing ________ by photosynthesis.
a)
oxygen
b)
nitrogen
c)
carbon dioxide
d)
iron oxide
14.
The early earth formed by
a)
all of the above
b)
volcanic eruptions
c)
cosmic collions
d)
comets and asteroids
15.

Young Earth formed a core, mantle, and crust in a process called

a)

dispersion

b)

settling

c)

differentiation

d)

accretion

16.

What is the process that is responsible for plate movement on the surface of the Earth?

a)

convection

b)

conduction

c)

isostasy

d)

radioactive decay

17.

Earth's magnetosphere is most likely evidence for:

a)

convection in the Earth's mantle

b)

earths spinning, liquid metallic outer core

c)

climate change

d)

plate tectonics

18.

Use this picture identifying the layers from outer to inner

a)

Inner Core

Crust

Mantle

Outer Core

b)

Crust

Inner Core

Mantle

Outer Core

c)

Outer Core

Inner Core

Crust

Mantle

 

d)

Crust

Mantle

Outer Core

Inner Core

 

 

19.

The image to the right shows what process by which heat drives plate tectonics?

a)
  1. equilibrium

b)
  1. convection

c)
  1. isostasy

d)

conduction

20.

Based on the information provided in the chart, evidence for Earth's liquid, metallic, outer core presented is based on:

a)
  1. Both S & P waves travel through the Core

b)
  1. P waves travel slower in liquids

c)
  1. S waves don't travel though liquids

d)

Both B & C