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Pathways to the Geosciences - Day 3

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The element symbol for Oxygen is:

a)

O

b)

Ox

c)

On

d)

Xy

2.

Outermost electrons are called:

a)

shell electrons

b)

charged electrons

c)

valence electrons

d)

cadence electrons

3.

Water, a molecule that has a slightly positive end and a slightly negative end, is a _____ molecule.

a)

regular

b)

polar

c)

organic

d)

charged

4.

Sodium ions (Na+) and chloride atoms (Cl-) form table salt, NaCl. The atoms in NaCl are held together by:

a)

an ionic bond

b)

a covalent bond

c)

a metallic bond

d)

an ironic bond

5.

What is geochemistry?

a)

The study of chemicals.

b)

The study of dirt.

c)

The study of the chemical composition of the Earth.

d)

The study of chemical solutions.

6.

Breathing into calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH2)) solution and what happened?

a)

Nothing

b)

It became cloudy white

c)

Adding CO2 by breathing created the reaction

d)

It exploded

7.

When adding kitchen salt (NaCl) to soda, what happened?

a)

Bubbles were created

b)

Nothing

c)

It exploded

d)

A chemical reaction

8.

What is geology?

a)

the study of rocks

b)

the study of history

c)

the study of maps

d)

the study of earth

9.

Rocks formed as sediment is deposited and pressed together.

a)

metamorphic

b)

igneous

c)

sedimentary

10.

Remains or evidence that plants and animals live long ago are preserved as?

a)

fossils

b)

rocks

c)

minerals

d)

sediment

11.

What is an unconformity in geology?

a)

A fold

b)

A fault

c)

When you do not wear the right uniform in school

d)

A break in time in an otherwise continuous rock record

12.

A contact in geology is:

a)

When we speak with space aliens

b)

A boundary which separates one rock body from another

c)

When two rocks high-five each other

d)

A continuous layer of rock

13.

The Principle of Original Horizontality is:

a)

Where folding occurs

b)

A methods to get relative dates

c)

A method to buy a mattress

d)

Where layers of sediment are originally deposited horizontally under the action of gravity

14.

The law of cross cutting relationships in geology:

a)

Allows for Texas citizens to own large cross-cut saws

b)

Allows for inter-racial marriages to be legal in Texas

c)

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

d)

States that the geologic feature which cuts another is the younger of the two features

15.

Life on Mars:

a)

Has been discovered

b)

Can be studied by a geomicrobiologist

c)

Might have existed if plate tectonics was occurring

d)

Has not been discovered yet