WorksheetsEARTH SCIENCE MID TERM REVIEW
Total questions: 93
Worksheet time: 56mins
The commandment to study and use the earth and its resources for God's glory and ma's benefit is called?
Glorify
Creation mandate
Study of Scientific
use
Secular scientist
Which of the following is not an example of applying the Creation Mandate?
Ridiculing a secular scientist because he believes that the earth is 4.5 billion years old
Launching a satellite to improve communication
Creating a device to measure earthquakes
Building a dan to reduce flooding
A hypothesis should be as long and complicated as possible.
True
False
What is a scientific model?
A describe of something in the world
Represents a model of an object
A paper that shows
model
A model that explain how an object looks
Which of the following typically comes first in the scientific process?
Publishing findings
Building a theory
Stating a hypothesis
Experimenting
If scientific information is collected with an instrument containing a numerical scale, it is most likely (a) data
What is operational and historical science
Operational controls objects
Operational the operate the present
Historical
study the dinosaur
Historical the studying the pass
According to an important presupposition of science, for every observable result of a process, there must be an adequate _____.
Effect
Hypothesis
Cause
Inference
Is a model used as a framework to explain many observation
law
theory
inference
plasma
Is a description that may include an equation with symbols
theory
redemption
law
mixture
New information that a scientist obtains from analyzing date is called ___ date
presupposition
drived
measured
granite
The process by which God restores all things to their original purpose of glorifying Him.
Science
Inference
Presupposition
Redemption
Matter is defined as anything that...
(a)
sweetened tea would be an examine of a
Pure substance
Condensation
Mixture
Plasma
Which of the following is a pure substance
Aluminum
Air
Granite
Whipped cream
if a substance has a constant volume but changes shape ,it is a
plasma
solid
liquid
Gas
In which state of matter do particles posses the most energy
plasma
temperature
melting
freezing
A substance's state of matter is most directly affected by its
temperature
plasma
condensation
deposition
The force exerted by a stalactite on the roof of the cave where it hangs is an example of
friction
Energy
Mixture
tension
Which force is responsible for the grinding and wearing away of rock as a glacier moves over it?
tension
friction
energy
mixture
energy is the
(a)
which of the following is a field force
compression
magnetism
friction
shear
For an object to have kinetic energy, it must be
standing still
pushed
moving
tension
The flow of thermal energy from a warmer to a cooler place is called ...
(a)
Which of the following is a type of light energy
ultrasonic
thermodynamic
infrared
thermal
which particle is in the nucleus of every atom?
electron
proton
neutron
Ion
Water is a ____
Compound
A pure substance
A molecule
All of the above
Which of the following may be ultrasonic
Thermal energy
Chemical energy
Sound energy
Electrical energy
Which of the following causes the aurora borealis, aka the northern lights
Thermal energy
Magnetic energy
Light energy
Electrical energy
The atomic number of an element tells you how many ___ are in its nucleus
protons
ion
electron
neutron
What is a Map scale
(a)
someone who creates map
map maker
cartographer
cardinal direction
paper
what is the invisible system that takes place of visible landmarks.
cartographer
3D model
cardinal direction
equator
What are latitude lines? Which way do they "run"?
Flat lines running north to south
Flat lines running
east to west
parallel lines running north to south
parallel line running east to west
What is the latitude line that measures 0 degrees??
flat line
map
cardinal direction
equator
what are ranges of possible values (including directions)
0-90 north
0-90 west
0-90 south
0-90 east
what are longitude lines?
lines
semicircle
flat lines
sources
Why is the prime meridian important
Divided the north and south
divided the east and the west
What is another word we can use for "longitude"
parallel
meridians
long
map
what are ranges of possible values(including direction)?
0-180 west
0-180 north
0-180 south
0-180 east
together, latitude and longitude are called
cooridinates
geographic projections
geographic coordinates
geographic angles
One degree of latitude or longitude is equal to how many nautical miles
75
18
60
90
What invention(s) helped sailors determine their latitude?
astrolabs
sextants
maps
seagoing clocks
What invention(s) helped sailors determine their longitude
astrolabs
seagoing clocks
sextants
map
Which one (latitude or longitude) were sailors able to accurately tell first?
Latitude
Longitude
How are coordinates written in?
miles
degree
hours
minute/sec
direction
What does GPS stand for?
Gravity pulling solar
Global people series
Global Positioning System
What are 3 main parts of a map
title & copyright
scale
compass
direction
key
What are the 3 kinds of projection surfaces commonly used for map making
plane
cone
cylinder
trylinger
A map projection with its point of contact in the center of other American would be a(n) _____ projection
Polar
oblique
equatorial
gnomic
Maps of the polar regions often use a(n) _____ projection
polar
gnomic
oblique
equatorial
What are thematic maps?
a theme
non geographic data
colorful map
weather maps
What does GIS stand for
Global Positioning System
geographic coordinates
geographic information system
What are the 3 ways GIS data can be stored?
Point
line
polygon
phone
technology
What makes GIS special
(a)
What are some ways GIS date is collected?
firestation location
surveying
testing
radar
acoustic sensing
Earth's axis is not _____ to its orbital plane
away
aline
perpendicular
close
It is angled ___ from the vertical and our season are caused by its....
23.5
32.5
tilt
angled
Earth atmosphere is ____, which is different from the other planets and moons in our solar system that have dense atmosphere
cloudy
clear
foggy
sunny
What space is threats dangerous location in a large galaxy like ours?
the moon
next to mars
the galaxy
spaces between spiral arms
do geologist learn about the presence of layers in the rather interior by studying earthquakes waves
true
false
The earth outer layer is made out of the ___
iron
crust
core
liquid
The earth crust is made up of large divisions know as ....
tectonic plates
crust
magnet field
thinner
The outer core is ..... ,and scientist believe that is possibly the source of either ....
(a)
These 3 obersavtions of the solar system give us clues about its history:
composition and movement of the planets
sun's gravitational pulls of orbiting body
Geologic column of the rocks layers
movement of the moon and other's
direction of the rotation
Which 2 planets raise major questions about the validity of the commonly accepted model for the origin of the solar system because of the way they rotate?
mars
venus
Jupiter
uranus
What are 2 way that geologists can date a rock stratum
ratiometric dating
relative dating
superposition
stratum
Geologists determine the relative date of rock layer by applying the principle 12 week
(a)
The principle of superposition states
lower layers of rocks formed before the top
multiples layers of rock
one layer of rocks
The Continental .... Theory is the theory that continents have...
close
drift
slowly drifted to their current positions
many theory of how they got to their current locations
Geologists discovered that the rock on opposite ides of underwater mountain ranges - mid-ocean -ridges- contained the same...
lithosphere
rifts
magma
magnetic pattern
Which of the following has been used to hypothesize which contents were at one time joined?
Climates
Magnetic crystals
Glaciers
Mountains
Sea-floor spreading is...
formation of new ocean crust at the mid ocean ridge
new crust
sea of the floor spread apart
Tectonics is the study of....
earth shaping processes and the structures they form
earth's oceanic and continental plates
earth's lithosphere
glaciers
How many tectonic plates does Earth have?
16
10
7
15
Most tectonic plates contain both
continental & oceanic crust
magma
magnetic patterns
rifts
When does subduction happen?
when oceanic plates slide underneath continental plates
never
when there is an explosion
when continental plates slide underneath oceanic plates
A glacier is..
a mass of ice produced when snow builds up and compacts
water that has melted
magma that rises until they hit the bottom of earth's lithosphere
2 examples of evidence of glaciers that no longer exists
glacial ridges
u-shaped valleys
nebular hypothesis
planetesimals
Who suggested that our solar system and its planets formed slowly from a cloud of dust and gas called a nebula?
immanuel can
immanuel kant
George Washington
how many years ago did earth start forming according to secular scientists?
4.5 billion years ago
2 million years ago
7000 years ago
100 years ago
which hypothesis has been developed by secular scientists to describe how our solar system came into existence?
nebular hypothesis
continental drift hypothesis
According to the nebular hypothesis ,all planets began as
a planet
a small dot
a gas
planetesimals
Secular scientist believe an explanation for our solar system's organ called the
plaensimal
nebular
the moon
nebular hypothesis
Which of the following features that exist today do secular scientists believe formed first?
Atmospheric oxygen
continents
the moon
oceans
Which events came last in the old-earth story?
ice ages
the formation of the earth from dust an gases
the hardening of the earth crust
the formation of the moon
Secular geologist believe that Pangea was made of many ... plates that broke apart and eventually formed ... that we see today
contental
land
continents
surf
Palentologists study the ...
contental
glacial period
evolution of life
continents
An ice age, or a ....... Is a period when deep continental glaciers covered a large part of ...
cooled
glacial
crust
earth surface
According to old-earth geologists,a gradual____ of both continents and oceans was necessary for a glacial period to begin
cooling
hot
cold
warm
A world view is based on
(a)
do scientists not like controlled experiments
True
False
What is planetesimals
Gas to turn into plants
small bodies of rock
Particles into a planet
rocks combined
