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1
What is a water table?
The highest level that water reaches in an aquifer
A table full of water
Area of porous rock that is filled with water
Where water flows off a mountain
2
What are Aquafiers?
Drinking water
Underground water
Underground Resivors
Dirty water
3
The scientist that hypothesized that the continents were once joined together in a single large land mass.
Samual Schwartz
Schleiden
Henry Hess
Alfred Wegner
4
A watershed is
an area of land that channels rainfall, snowmelt, and runoff into a common body of water
False
True
5
Which best describes heat transfer by radiation?
a hot air balloon
a slice of bacon frying in a pan
a camp fire warming hands
a pot of stove boiling water
6
What happens to the energy in an energy pyramid?
energy stays the same
energy decreases as it flows through
Energy increases as it flows through
Energy does not flow
7
Chemical or Physical change?
Physical change
Chemical change
8
What is the skunk’s trophic level in the energy pyramid?
Producer
Primary Consumer
Secondary Consumer
Tertiary
9
Which of these are negative effects humans have on ecosystems? More than one answer
deforestation
pollution
habitat restoration
recycling
10
When plate boundaries form mountains this is an example of which boundary?
divergent
transform
convergent
subduction zone
11
The frog is the _____________ in this energy pyramid.
tertiary consumer
primary consumer
herbivore
secondary consumer
12
Chemical or physical change?
physical change
chemical change
13
A watershed is all the land where runoff goes into a specific body of water.
False
True
14
Which level of the energy pyramid has the most energy?
consumers
decomposers
apex predators
producers
15
Mountain Ranges are formed when
plates transform
you dig a trench
plates divide
plates converge
16
Seafloor spreading is a process that...
destroys oceanic crust
I still don't know
occurs at the mid-ocean ridges
causes continents to plow through the seafloor
17
Conduction is defined as...
42.
heat transfer through the air
thermal energy travelling in a cycle
heat transfer through touch
18
What is the job of a producer?
to provide tertiary consumers with 20% of initial energy
To act as the primary or initial source of food and energy.
All of the above
to eat the primary consumer by producing food for the chain
19
By what percentage does the energy decrease in an energy pyramid?
50%
100%
10%
1%
20
What plate boundaries are responsible for earthquakes?
Transform
All three
Divergent
Convergent
21
New crust is created at ___________boundaries.
Convergent
Surface Water
Divergent
Transform
22
What causes the Earth orbit the Sun, and not orbit the Moon?
Inertia
Gravity
23
As energy moves through the pyramid, the amount of available energy..
increases as the size of the organism increases
decreases because it is released as heat in the environment
doubles as it moves up each trophic level
remains the same as it is transferred to the next level
24
Motion Graphs
A
C
D
B
25
Does moon orbit the earth?
True
False
26
Chemical or physical change?
Physical
Chemical
27
What are Aquafiers?
Large stores of water held underground
Liquid Sludge absorbed by rocks held uderground
Underground Mucus held underground
Water stored in rocks
28
Energy increases as it goes up to the next trophic level.
True
False
29
Chemical or physical change?
Chemical Change
Physical change
30
Why does the moon orbit the Earth not the sun?
why not
idk
it is closer to the earth
sun is not that strong
31
Convection currents in the mantle are caused by differences in what?
Temperature and Density
Mass
Size
Composition
32
Convection transfers energy through...
a vacuum (in space)
air and liquid (fluids)
a solid
33
What is a water table?
A table full of water
The highest level that water reaches in an aquifer
Where water flows off a mountain
Area of porous rock that is filled with water
34
Which organism shown in the pyramid receives the highest percentage of energy from the sun?
Grasses
They all get the same amount of energy
Prairie Dogs
Coyotes
35
What is the job of producers?
To mix Carbon Dioxide in the air
To allow energy to enter the ecosystem in a usable form
They deny any food molecules from entering the ecosystem
36
In the pyramid below, if the plants absorb 100,000J of energy from the sun, the the frogs will gain ______ of energy?
100J
10,000J
10J
1000J
37
Which of these natural disasters tend to occur near plate boundaries?
volcanoes
none of these
both of these
earthquakes
38
_________is the driving force behind seafloor spreading.
Surface Water
Convection Currents
The water table
Water Cycle
39
Evidence of Continental Drift
Seafloor spreading of Atlantic Ocean
matching fossils on West Africa and East South America
All of above
jigsaw shape of continents
40
Why does the moon orbit Earth, not the sun?
The Earth has more inertia
The Earth has life
The Earth has more gravity
The Earth is closer
41
What is the job of a mushroom in an ecosystem?
Decomposer
Consumer
Producer
Omnivore
42
Chemical or physical change?
Physical
Chemical
Neither
43
What is the main job of producers?
To make food for carnivores.
To make food for consumers.
To make food for other producers
To break down dead plants and animals
44
Old crust is destroyed at_______________boundaries
Convergent
Sea Shore
Transform
Divergent
45
Excessive pumping of groundwater in a drought will cause:
a nearby river to go dry
the well to go dry
the water table to decline
all of the above
46
What is an energy pyramid?
has few organisms at the top
has more organisms at the bottom
all the above
shows the flow of energy in an ecosystem
47
negative effects humans have on environment
protecting endangered animals
water pollution
global warming
air pollution
48
Chemical or physical change?
Neither
Physical
Chemical
49
Evidence of continental drift
Africa and South America are like two perfect puzzle pieces.
all of the above
Animal fossils that could not swim found on both sides of the Atlantic.
The same rocks were found on the coast of Eastern S America and W. Africa
50
Pollutants that get into runoff & groundwater in a watershed could harm organisms living in ponds & streams.
False
True
51
Does pollution affect surface water, ground water or both?
just surface water
surface water and groundwater
52
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
convergent, transverse, divergent
divergent, transform, transverse
convergent, transverse, transform
convergent, divergent, transform
53
Seafloor spreading occurs when two plates
are colliding into each other
When one plate subducts beneath another less dense one
slip passed each other creating earthquakes
are moving away from each other creating ridges
54
Why do so many volcanoes and earthquakes happen along plate boundaries?
coincidence
bad weather in these areas
plates move and shift
none of these
55
The region along plate boundaries where one plate is sinking beneath another is called
Rift valley
convergent boundary
subduction zone
transform boundary
56
At transform plate boundaries.....
The plates slide past eachother
The plates divide
None of the above
The plates collide
57
Which convergent plate boundaries form deep ocean trenches?
Oceanic-Oceanic Convergent
Continental-Oceanic Convergent
Continental-Continental Convergent
58
The process of the continents slowly spreading.
Pangea Drift
Continental Drift
Pangaea
Convection
59
Factories to dump waste into rivers/streams can also have a negative effect on oceans/environment
True
False
60
How does the producers of the energy pyramid benefit other orgasnisms
Carbon dioxide and dirt
Oxygen and food
Love and shelter
Water and sunlight
61
What could be the effects of human activities on the watershed?
paving over areas for buildings and roads
flushing a toilet
spilling gasoline when filling a car
all of the above
62
How much energy will the bee receive from the tulips?
35
350,000
3500
350
63
Using the energy pyramid, who has the most energy?
Algae
Snake
Minnow
Duck
64
Why does the Moon orbit Earth and NOT the sun?
Earth's atmosphere gives Earth more gravitational pull than the Sun
Earth is closer to the moon than the Sun. Shorter distance is greater pull
Moon would burn up from the Sun's extreme heat if it were to orbit the Sun
Earth has more mass than the Sun so greater gravitational pull
