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WorksheetsUnit II Practice Test: The Physical Earth
Total questions: 49
Worksheet time: 43mins
Water that moves across the ground.
Runoff
Precipitation
Accumulation
(a) creates fresh water lakes. Most lakes are (b) water. A large body of water surrounded by land. Most of them are freshwater.
Water makes up (a) of the surface of the Earth. (b) of that water is salt water, and the remaining (c) is fresh water.
A porous area between two layers of rock where water can flow. Wells are dug into this water feature.
Runoff
Aquifer
Accumulation
The Great Rift Valley in eastern Africa and the country of Iceland were created by (a) tectonic plates.
The rigid outer shell of the Earth, including the ocean bed, is part of which sphere?
Geosphere / Lithosphere
Hydrosphere
Atmosphere
Biosphere
(a) are features on the Earth's surface created by internal and external (b) . Mountains, hills and beaches are landforms, and trees are (c) !
All air (oxygen, nitrogen, water vapor, zone, wind) is part of which sphere?
Geosphere / Lithosphere
Hydrosphere
Atmosphere
Biosphere
All life (plants, animals, insects, fungus, bacteria, humans) makes up which sphere?
Geosphere / Lithosphere
Hydrosphere
Atmosphere
Biosphere
The country of Iceland was created by ______ tectonic plates.
Colliding
Spreading
Grinding
Subducting
The Himalayas were created by ________ tectonic plates.
subducting
spreading
colliding
faulting
What geologic process formed the Himalayas?
two continental plates colliding
an earthquake in a subduction zone
a tectonic plate moving over a hot spot
movement at a transform fault boundary
As you travel from the inner core to the crust, how would temperature, pressure and density of the material change?
They would all increase
They would all decrease.
They would stay the same.
Temperature would decrease, but pressure and density would increase.
What do we call the center of the Earth?
Mantle
Crust
Lithosphere
Core
What is the outermost layer of the Earth that consists of the continents and the ocean floor?
Mantle
Outer Core
Crust
Inner Core
What is the layer of hot, moving rock between the Earth's core and crust?
Inner Core
Mantle
Crust
Core
The Earth's crust is divided into a number of large, SLOWLY moving pieces called
Plate margins
Tectonic plates
Continents
Countries
The hottest layer of the Earth is:
Mantle
Core
Crust
The (a) in eastern Africa was created by (b) tectonic plates.
Most fresh water on the planet is the result of
melting ice caps and glaciers
precipitation
condensation
desalination
(a) is the process of removing salt from water. It is important because only (b) of the fresh water on the planet is accessible by humans.
The lithosphere consists of the upper most part of the mantle and the..
Crust
Asthenosphere
Core
Continents
Any natural feature of the earth's surface
Landforms
Rivers
Sand Dune
Mountain
A vent in the crust of the earth from which usually molten or hot rock and steam is released
Mountain
Delta
Volcano
Fault
Study of plates, their movement, and Earth’s features that they affect
Plate boundaries
Plate Tectonics
Major mountains
Geology
The region where two lithospheric plates meet
Continental Drift
Plate tectonics
Plate Boundaries
Continental Shelf
The idea that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart and
moved.
Continental Drift
Tectonic Plates
Transform
Lithosphere Movement
Boundary between two plates where the plates are sliding past each other
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Transpiration
Forms where plates are moving away from each other
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Transpiration
Formed where two sections of Earth’s crust are colliding
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Collision
Which of the following (2) jobs would a Geologist go?
Studying rocks
deep-sea diving
help find buried resources, like coal, oil and metals
study the human brain
A landform at the mouth of a river--shaped like a triangle.
Lake
Delta
River
Swamp
What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
Tehran
Baghdad
Riyadh
Jerusalem
New Delhi
What is the capital of Iraq?
Tehran
Baghdad
Riyadh
Jerusalem
New Delhi
What causes the magnetosphere?
The movement of molten iron in the outer core.
The movement of molten copper in the upper mantle.
The movement of lava between tectonic plates.
Observe this diagram of a plate boundary. One statement BEST describes what is happening.
the oceanic crust is melting.
the denser oceanic crust is subducting under the less dense continental crust
volcanic islands are forming.
the tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
Match the landform/process with the correct tectonic plate movement.
Himalayan Mountains
Great Rift Valley, Africa
San Andreas Fault, California
Accretion
Iceland
Ridges on the ocean floor
Rocky Mountains
Volcanoes
Arrange the following in the correct order!
Get up in the morning with a good attitude!
Go to School
Listen carefully, take notes and ask questions.
Go home, do homework, eat supper and relax.
Tell the adults in your life that you appreciate them and get a good night's sleep!
Water gathering in lakes and ponds is called
(a)
Water moving across the ground is called
(a)
A heavier ocean plate diving under a continental plate is called
(a)
