WorksheetsPathways to the Geosciences - Day 3
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The element symbol for Oxygen is:
O
Ox
On
Xy
Outermost electrons are called:
shell electrons
charged electrons
valence electrons
cadence electrons
Water, a molecule that has a slightly positive end and a slightly negative end, is a _____ molecule.
regular
polar
organic
charged
Sodium ions (Na+) and chloride atoms (Cl-) form table salt, NaCl. The atoms in NaCl are held together by:
an ionic bond
a covalent bond
a metallic bond
an ironic bond
What is geochemistry?
The study of chemicals.
The study of dirt.
The study of the chemical composition of the Earth.
The study of chemical solutions.
Breathing into calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH2)) solution and what happened?
Nothing
It became cloudy white
Adding CO2 by breathing created the reaction
It exploded
When adding kitchen salt (NaCl) to soda, what happened?
Bubbles were created
Nothing
It exploded
A chemical reaction
What is geology?
the study of rocks
the study of history
the study of maps
the study of earth
Rocks formed as sediment is deposited and pressed together.
metamorphic
igneous
sedimentary
Remains or evidence that plants and animals live long ago are preserved as?
fossils
rocks
minerals
sediment
What is an unconformity in geology?
A fold
A fault
When you do not wear the right uniform in school
A break in time in an otherwise continuous rock record
A contact in geology is:
When we speak with space aliens
A boundary which separates one rock body from another
When two rocks high-five each other
A continuous layer of rock
The Principle of Original Horizontality is:
Where folding occurs
A methods to get relative dates
A method to buy a mattress
Where layers of sediment are originally deposited horizontally under the action of gravity
The law of cross cutting relationships in geology:
Allows for Texas citizens to own large cross-cut saws
Allows for inter-racial marriages to be legal in Texas
States that if a fault or other body of rock cuts through another body of rock then it must be younger in age than the rock through which it cuts and displaces
States that the geologic feature which cuts another is the younger of the two features
Life on Mars:
Has been discovered
Can be studied by a geomicrobiologist
Might have existed if plate tectonics was occurring
Has not been discovered yet
