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WorksheetsSemester 1 final ESS
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 1hrs 29mins
Studying how mountains erode and how rivers flow into drainage basins?
Geology
Oceanography
Meteorology
Plumbing
Which of the following is NOT a reason to study the earth sciences and the environment around us?
We Get All Our Natural Resources from The Earth
World Population Growth And Food Requirements Are Major Considerations For The Future
To Prove That the Moon Is Not Made Of Cheese
To Better Understand And Prepare Against Nature’s Disasters Such As Earthquakes And Volcanoes
The Earth’s core is made of ________.
Liquid metal around an inner solid core
Solid rock around an inner liquid core
Liquid metal around an inner liquid core
A giant gold nugget protected by gremlins
The mantle transfers heat by a process known as ________.
Conduction
Radiation
Congestion
Convection
Compared to oceanic crust, continental crust is ________.
Thinner and less dense
Thicker and less dense
Thinner and more dense
Thick and not too bright
The earth’s magnetic field is created by the interaction between the ____________.
Government and citizens
Lithosphere and Asthenosphere
Core and mantle
Inner and outer core
The characteristic that distinguishes P-waves from S-waves is that _____________.
P-waves only travel through solids
P-waves travel through both solids & liquids
P-waves only travel through liquids
P-waves are a type of x-ray
The definition of a mineral includes words such as ___________
Foliated and amorphous
Naturally occurring and crystalline
Emotional and moody
Organic and solution
Rocks are composed of aggregates of minerals?
True
False
All of the above
The most unreliable (Variable) diagnostic property of minerals such as quartz is___________
Color
Crystal Form
Luster
Specific Gravity
The man who pioneered the continental drift hypothesis was _____________.
Nicolaus Steno
Fred Vine
James Hutton
Alfred Wegener
Pangaea is ____________.
A portion of the mid-Atlantic ridge
A German word for “Plate tectonics”
A name of a fossil found in both Africa and South America
The name of a supercontinent
The fossils of the Mesosaurus, being in south america and africa both, provides evidence that __________.
England was covered by a shallow sea during the late Paleozoic
Migration between North American and England was possible
South America and Africa were once joined
A land bridge existed between Australia and India
In the plate tectonics model, Earth’s outer shell consists of about _________ individual plates.
3
5
22
63
New oceanic crust is formed at ______________.
Divergent plate boundaries
Convergent plate boundaries
Transform fault boundaries
All of these
The Himalayan Mountains were produced along a ____________ boundary.
Divergent
Convergent (ocean-ocean)
Convergent (continent-ocean)
Convergent (continent-continent)
The point of origin of an earthquake is known as the _____________. Most of the time it is located below the earth’s surface and it will always be associated with a fault.
Epicenter
Focus
Breaking point
Shock zone
Which of the seismic waves listed below travels the fastest?
P-wave
S-wave
L-wave
Microwave
We know that the outer core is molten because _________________.
P-waves travel all the way through the earth
R-waves roll along the surface of the earth
There is a S-wave shadow zone on the far side of the earth from the epicenter
Seismic waves bend as they travel through solid rock
Which of the following is NOT a factor in determining if a volcano is explosive or not?
The depth of the magma
The magma’s chemistry
The magma’s temperature
The amount of gases dissolved in the magma
What is the definition of viscosity?
A fluid’s ability to flow
A fluid’s resistance to flow
A fluid flowing freely
The cooling of magma
A large volcanic mountain with steep slopes is known as a __________. Mt. St. Helens is an example.
Cinder cone
Pointy cone
Shield cone
Composite cone
When a volcano has not erupted recently, but has erupted during historical times we classify it as being ___. It is entirely possible that these volcanoes will indeed erupt again.
Extinct
Dormant
Active
Worthless
Pahoehoe lava can best be described as ________________.
Very hot and thin like honey
Cool, chunky, and explosive
Very slow
A funny word
A hot ash cloud travelling over 800 km/hr down a volcano is known as a ___.
Pyroclastic Cloud
Pyroclastic Fan
Pyroclastic Flow
Cheese omelet
How old is the earth currently believed to be by geologists?
46,000 years
90,000,000 years
7
4.6 billion years
Of 5 undeformed horizontal beds of sedimentary rock, we can say that ____________.
The one on the top is the oldest
The second one from the bottom has been cut by a fault
The one on the top is the youngest
The layer on the bottom is the youngest
A ____________ is any remains or traces of prehistoric life.
Coal seam
Geologic time unit
Mr G
Fossil
The resistance of a mineral to abrasion is known as ____________ .
Cleavage
Hardness
Resistance
Conchoidal
Most fossils are not preserved; to preserve fossils we need ________ & _________.
Water: wind
Rapid burial: possession of hard parts
Dinosaurs: slow burial
Slow burial: internal skeletons
The history of the earth and its life has been cataloged by scientists and organized into what we call ____________.
The Great Book
The Geologic Time Scale
Too many words
Organized time
The largest division of geologic time is a unit called a(n) ___________. These cover the longest spans of time. The Archean is an example.
Epoch
Era
Eon
Period
The study of hurricanes is ___________________.
Geology
Oceanography
Meteorology
Astronomy
Oceanic crust is destroyed and recycled along ____________.
Divergent plate boundaries
Convergent plate boundaries
Transform fault boundaries
Emotional boundaries
Much of the information about the internal structure of the earth was learned by ________.
Drilling deep into the earth
Using x-ray technology
Examining seismic waves (seismology)
Using temperature probes
The Most Abundant Element in Earth’s Crust is ____________
Titanium
Silicon
Snacks
Both Oxygen and Silicon
The Appearance or Quality of Light Reflected from the Surface of a Mineral is called___________
Sheen
Fluorescence
Color
Luster
Plates slide and grind past one another at ____________.
Divergent plate boundaries
Convergent plate boundaries
Transform fault boundaries
All of these
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of a ___________ boundary.
Divergent
Convergent (continent-ocean)
Convergent (continent-continent)
International
The 5 main types of fossils are
Petrified, casts and molds, carbon films, trace fossils, and preserved remains
Petrified, casts and molds, carbon films, trace fossils, and preserved jellies
Petrified, casts and molds, carbon dating, trace fossils, and preserved remains
Petrified, casts and molds, carbon films, trace fossils, and Mr. Gueldner
The age of fish and the age of dinosaurs were called
The Devonian and the Jurassic
The Cambrian and the holocene
The Mississippian and the french revolution
Yesterday and today
?
Which of the following is NOT an example of a trace fossil?
Footprint
Burrow
Bone
Coprolite
A sequence of processes that can change a rock from one form to another is called
The boring cycle
The carbon cycle
The nitrogen cycle
The rock cycle
The two process for forming metamorphic rock are
heat and pressure
waves and water
stress and strain
push and pull
To make an igneous rock it must be ______ and then __________.
gets mad, chills out
molten, crystallize
pressurized, heated
sediments, compacted
Most fossils will be found in ________________ rock.
igneous
metamorphic
sedimentary
diamonds
Weathering is the _________ of the rock and erosion ________ the rock.
breaking down, moving
heating, pressurizing,
moving, breaking down
buying, selling
Storms occur in ____ pressure zones.
High
Low
Emotional
Social
High pressure zones make the sky ______.
Cloudy
Orange
Clear
Cry
Hurricanes, tornadoes, and cyclones rotate _______________ in the northern hemisphere.
Counter clockwise
Clockwise
Vertically
Like a ballerina (don't pick this one)
What does this weather symbol mean?
Warm front
Ice sickles
Blue pointy thing
Cold Front
What does this weather symbol mean?
Warm front
Cold Front
Clown noses in a row
Occluded front
The Coriolis effect is caused by the Earth's ____________.
Color
Pollution
Rotation
Velocity
Which is stormier?
A warm front
A cold front
An occluded front
A store front
When a hurricane hits land it will _______________.
Slow down and die
Speed up and grow
Circle around and around for months
Cry and file an insurance claim
