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Earth Science

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 2hrs 30mins

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1.

Which of the following defines what a valley is?

a)

High, uplifted area with steep slopes?

b)

Land that gets covered by water when a stream or river when floods

c)

A low area between hills or mountains often where a stream or river flows

d)

fan shaped deposit at the mouth of a river

2.

Blank rocks are formed under the surface of the earth's crust.

(a)  

3.

What kind of rock is the one shown here?

a)

Igneous

b)

Sedimentary

c)

Metamorphic

d)

Fraggle

4.

What are the three types of plate boundaries?

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5.

What conditions were supposed to help in the crystallization of sugar in the lab we did?

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6.

Which of the following is a type of convergent plate boundary? (Hint: May be more than one answer!)

a)

crust-country convergence

b)

continental-continental

c)

oceanic-continental

d)

subduction-subduction

7.

Briefly explain what the theory of plate tectonics states.

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8.

Which rocks have the ability to house fossils?

a)

Metamorphic

b)

Sediments

c)

Igneous

d)

Sedimentary

9.

Which of the definitions is that of a canyon?

a)

V-Shaped valley eroded by a stream

b)

Mound, ridge, or hill of windblown sand

c)

Nearly level area that has been eroded or where material has been deposited

d)

gently sloping shore next to a body of water

10.

In geology what is a "fault"?

a)

a piece of land surrounded by water

b)

A round shape formed in a mountain

c)

break in earth's surface in which movement has occured

d)

when the blame gets shifted to someone

11.

Explain the difference between magma and lava?

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12.

The process of sediment sticking together to form new rocks is called?

a)

concretion

b)

cementation

c)

fraction

d)

sanitation

13.

What two things happen in the process of metamorphism?

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14.

Crystals are capable of forming in which of the following type of rocks?

a)

fossils

b)

intrusive igneous

c)

sedimentary

d)

extrusive igneous

15.

Blank is the midpoint horizontal line that marks "0" in latitude.

(a)  

16.

Which of the following sounds like a glacier to you?

a)

A round shape formed when rocks like granite peel away at the Earth's surface

b)

A medium-to-large body of water surrounded by land

c)

A bank along a stream that may stop land from flooding

d)

A large mass of ice moving slowly over land

17.

Which one of the following is the definition of a mountain?

a)

Unsorted rocks and soil carried and deposited by a glacier in a mound or ridge

b)

A large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak Must be at least 305m in elevation above their base

c)

pile of earth materials that results from the rapid movement of material down a slope

d)

The sand deposited by wind in ridges, mounds, or hills

18.

A blank is a mountain made of lava, cinders, ash, and gases that have poured out through an opening in Earth's crust

(a)