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WorksheetsEarth Review
Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 3hrs 47mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the outermost layer of the Earth?
a)
crust
b)
mantle
c)
outer core
d)
inner core
2.
What two metals make up the core?
a)
aluminum and silver
b)
iron and nickel
3.
What layer is the thickest?
a)
crust
b)
mantle
c)
inner core
d)
outer core
4.
What is the name of the supercontinent theorized by Wegener?
a)
Atlantis
b)
Pangaea
5.
What did Wegener notice about the continents?
a)
they end in the letter "a"
b)
they fit together like a puzzle
6.
True or False. The Earth's crust is made of rock
a)
True
b)
False
7.
True or False. The Earth's crust is thick melted rock
a)
True
b)
False
8.
True or False. The Earth's land forms are found on Earth's crust.
a)
True
b)
False
9.
True or False. The mantle is a solid piece of rock.
a)
True
b)
False
10.
What layer is 1?
a)
Crust
b)
Mantel
c)
Outer Core
d)
Inner Core
11.
What layer is 2?
a)
Crust
b)
Mantel
c)
Outer Core
d)
Inner Core
12.
What Layer is 3?
a)
Crust
b)
Mantle
c)
Outer Core
d)
Inner Core
13.
What layer is 4?
a)
Crust
b)
Mantel
c)
Outer Core
d)
Inner Core
14.
What layer is 5?
a)
Crust
b)
Mantle
c)
Outer Core
d)
Inner Core
15.
Which layer of Earth is located above the outer core?
a)
crust
b)
inner core
c)
mantle
d)
lithosphere
16.
Which of these two layers is a solid?
a)
innercore
b)
Outercore
17.
Temperature _____________________ as you go deeper into the earth.
a)
increases
b)
decreases
c)
goes up and down depending on the layer
d)
stays the same
18.
Pressure ______________________ as you go deeper into the Earth
a)
increases
b)
decreases
c)
goes up or down depending on the layer
d)
stays the same
19.
The ____ is the largest layer of the Earth
a)
inner core
b)
crust
c)
mantle
d)
outer core
20.
What layer of Earth do we live on?
a)
Crust
b)
Core
c)
Mantle
21.
This is part of the....
a)
Geosphere
b)
Biosphere
c)
Hydrosphere
d)
Cryosphere
22.
All living things on earth are part of the....
a)
Biosphere
b)
Geosphere
c)
Hydrosphere
d)
Cryosphere
23.
Hydro =
a)
Sphere
b)
Earth
c)
Life
d)
Water
24.
This is part of the....
a)
Geosphere
b)
Atmosphere
c)
Biosphere
d)
Hydrosphere
25.
This is part of the....
a)
Geosphere
b)
Biosphere
c)
Hydrosphere
d)
Atmosphere
26.
This is part of the....
a)
Geosphere
b)
Atmosphere
c)
Hydrosphere
d)
Cryosphere
27.
This is part of the....
a)
Geosphere
b)
Atmosphere
c)
Cryosphere
d)
Hydrosphere
28.
This sphere includes the continents, the ocean floor, all the rocks on the surface, and all of the sand in the deserts.
a)
Hydrosphere
b)
Biosphere
c)
Atmosphere
d)
Geosphere
29.
Composed of all the water on or near the earth
a)
Hydrosphere
b)
Biosphere
c)
Atmosphere
d)
Geosphere
30.
When dead plants decompose and nitrogen is returned to the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres?
a)
The biosphere and atmosphere
b)
The atmosphere and geosphere
c)
The geosphere and atmosphere
d)
The biosphere and geosphere
31.
What might happen if the earth didn't have an atmosphere?
a)
Everything would go flying off into space
b)
The seasons would be longer
c)
The earth's rotation would stop
d)
We wouldn't be able to breathe
32.
When carbon dioxide dissolves from the air into the ocean- the interaction is between...
a)
The atmosphere and geosphere
b)
The atmosphere and hydrosphere
c)
The atmosphere and biosphere
d)
The atmosphere and atmosphere
33.
Oceans, rivers, lakes, and the moisture in the air are all part of which of Earth's spheres?
a)
Hydrosphere
b)
Biosphere
c)
Atmosphere
d)
Geosphere
34.
When a plants takes carbon dioxide from the air which two spheres are interacting?
a)
Biosphere and atmosphere
b)
Geosphere and atmosphere
c)
Hydrosphere and atmosphere
d)
Atmosphere and atmosphere
35.
Energy from the sun is stored by plants. When animals eat the plants, they acquire the energy originally captured by the plants. Between which two spheres is the above interaction?
a)
Hydrosphere and biosphere
b)
Atmosphere and biosphere
c)
Biosphere and biosphere
d)
Geosphere and biosphere
36.
When plants draw nutrients from the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres?
a)
The atmosphere and the geosphere
b)
The geosphere and the hydrosphere
c)
The hydrosphere and atmosphere
d)
The biosphere and the geosphere
37.
Name the boundary
a)
convergent boundary
b)
divergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
sergent boundary
38.
Which type of boundary is known for causing big earthquakes?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
subduction
39.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
strike slip
40.
In which type of boundary do the plates go away from each other?
a)
convergent
b)
normal
c)
divergent
d)
transform
41.
What is Magma when it reaches the surface of Earth?
a)
Lava
b)
Mafic Magma
c)
Felsic Magma
d)
None of these
42.
This is the name for the chain of volcanos around the edge of the Pacific Plate.
a)
Circle of Fire
b)
Ring of Lava
c)
Ring of Fire
d)
Circle of Magma
43.
Volcanoes are found...
a)
on land
b)
under water
c)
on islands
d)
all of the above
44.
What are the 4 main agents of erosion?
a)
Ice, Snow, Rocks
b)
Landslides, Erosion, Volcanoes, Flooding
c)
Wind, Water, Ice, Gravity
45.
What is likely to cause cracks on the sidewalk?
a)
Repeated freezing and thawing of water
b)
Tree roots or plant roots growing bigger
c)
Both and A and B
d)
Neither A or B
46.
Weathering is the process of -
a)
Moving sediment from one place to another
b)
Dropping or leaving sediment in a location
c)
Breaking down rocks into sediment
47.
The process by which water, ice, wind or gravity moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another.
a)
weathering
b)
erosion
c)
deposition
d)
dumptruck
48.
Which of these is an example of erosion?
a)
Light shinning onto a mountain
b)
Rain breaking down rock
c)
Wind blowing away sediment
d)
All of the above
49.
What is erosion?
a)
The movement of sediment
b)
The breaking of sediment
c)
The dropping of sediment
50.
A flat area or land.
a)
Ocean
b)
Island
c)
Peninsula
d)
Plain
51.
A body of salt water that covers almost 71% of Earth's surface.
a)
Lake
b)
Valley
c)
Mountain
d)
Ocean
52.
Land that is completely surrounded by water.
a)
Island
b)
Plain
c)
River
d)
Valley
53.
Land that is surrounded by water on three sides.
a)
Peninsula
b)
Ocean
c)
Mountain
d)
Valley
54.
I am a/an
a)
Lake
b)
Ocean
c)
Island
d)
Valley
55.
Which layer is composed mostly of iron?
a)
Z
b)
Y
c)
V
d)
X
56.
Are layers X and Z cooler than V?
a)
Yes
b)
No
c)
They are the same temperature.
57.
Why is the inner core believed to be solid?
a)
because iron and nickel are always solid
b)
because nickel is not dense
c)
because it has immense pressure on it by all the layers above it and cannot expand or flow
d)
because it is mostly made of granite and basalt, two solid substances
58.
Which is the only entirely liquid layer of the Earth?
a)
the upper mantle
b)
the outer core
c)
the inner core
d)
the lower mantle
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