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ESS Intro Unit Review

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does GPS stand for?

a)

Glacial Positioning System

b)

Global Placement System

c)

Global Positioning System

d)

Global Placement Satellites

2.

What is the goal of Science?

a)

To provide answers to all questions

b)

To Collect Data

c)

To better understand the natural world

d)

All of these choices

3.

What symbol do we use to indicate a basin on a topographic map?

a)

Contour Intervals

b)

Map Legends

c)

Hatch lines pointing inward

d)

Index Contours

4.

The equator, and lines that run parallel to it are called...

a)

lines of borealis

b)

lines of longitude

c)

lines of latitude

d)

lines of contour

5.

A satellite in geostationary orbit...

a)

is not as good for communications as satellites in other types of orbits.

b)

appears to stay in the sky over the same spot.

c)

makes one complete orbit around Earth every 90 minutes.

d)

is best for observing polar regions.

6.

What do constructive forces do?

a)

create streams

b)

cause landforms to build up

c)

cause landforms to wear down

d)

create faults

7.

The oldest ocean basin's crust is _________ old.

a)

65 million years

b)

180 million years

c)

180 thousand years

d)

4.4 billion years

8.

Which of the following is NOT an important force of erosion?

a)

heat

b)

wind

c)

water

d)

ice

9.

A feature would appear bigger on a map with a scale of 1:24,000 than on one with a scale of 1:100,000.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Maps are ____ representations of a _____ Earth.

a)

1D, 2D

b)

3D, 4D

c)

3D, 2D

d)

2D, 3D

11.

An Arc is _______ between two points on a sphere or circle

a)

the shortest distance

b)

the longest distance

c)

a random distance

12.

If a hypothesis explains all the data, there is a whole of data, and none of the data contradicts the hypothesis, that hypothesis becomes...

a)

A Theory

b)

A Secondary Hypothesis

c)

A Law

d)

A Conclusion