Earth Science Comprehensive Exam

Electric current is measured in ______?

Which mineral has a hardness scale number of 10?

What is the Earth's period of rotation?

Which mountain range is located in Asia?

Which of these atmospheric layers includes the ionosphere?

Which is the brightest star?

What is the chemical symbol for ozone?

Which is one way scientists discover what Earth's interior is like?

Which bodies of water are partly or completely encircled by land?

What is the largest object in the solar system?

The prime meridian separates the Earth into the ____ and ____ hemispheres.

Which is the current eon?

What is the name of Jupiter's four largest moons?

This gas gives Neptune and Uranus its blue color.

The Earth is divided into ____ time zones.

What is the mean in this data set? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

In which layer of the Sun does light become heat?

The inner planets all have a core made of iron and nickel. Which are the correct symbols for iron and nickel?

Which mountain range extend Canada to New Mexico?

This scientist used the evidence of seafloor spreading to explain what moved continents.

What is the Earth's period of revolution?

Latitude is represented by ______ lines.

The solar system is located in which galaxy?

________ ________ occurs when warm air mass moves into an area where cooler air is already present.

Which type of cloud is known as a thundercloud?

This is the symbol for a ______ ______

Where is the reference point for the prime meridian

Which is the hottest planet?

Which body of water contains the Hawaiian Islands?

Longitude is represented by _____ lines.

Which Earth layer is the least dense?

Which term means packed close together?

What is the median in this data set? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Which type of scientist studies fossils

Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?

Which layer gives the Sun its color?

Which is a natural, solid mixture of minerals or grains?

What is science?

The Earth spins on an imaginary axis that is tilted ______.

What is the mode in this data set? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 2, 5

Which direction does Venus rotate?

____ _____ is the theory that suggests the Earth's surface is divided into large plates of rigid rock.

The second largest moon in the solar system (Titan) belongs to this planet.

What is the chemical symbol for methane?

Where is most of Earth's freshwater found?

What percentage of Earth water is salt water?

Earth's atmosphere is made of ______ nitrogen.

Which is the current epoch?

Which is not a physical property of minerals?

Under the right temperature and pressure limestone becomes _____.

Which two planets are composed primarily of hydrogen and helium?

The Moon rotates and revolves ______.

The edge of air masses are called ________.

A _______ is used to measure distance outside the solar system.

The series of natural processes by which water continually moves among oceans and the atmosphere is called _____.

Which is the third largest ocean?

The equator separates the Earth into the _____ and ______ hemispheres.

Which is the current period?

How does the Sun create energy?

Which is the largest moon in our solar system?

What are the three major types of rocks?

_______ describes the short-term conditions of the atmosphere over a short period of time.

Which is located in the Pacific Ocean?

In the troposphere temperature _____ as altitude increases.

Which mountain range extend from Maine to Alabama?

When two plates separate it is known as a _______ plate boundary.

Alabama is located in the ______ time zone.

A process that uses a set of skills to answer questions or test ideas about the natural world is called ________.

In which atmospheric layer do satellites orbit the Earth?

______ _______ occurs when the colder air is replacing the warmer air.

What is the name of the large volcano found on Mars?

During an earthquake where is the epicenter located?

Which word is associated with earthquakes?

The softest mineral is _________.

This is the symbol for a _____ _____.

The United States is part of the _________ climate zone.

What is the SI base unit for length?

The boundary between the crust and mantle is called the ______.

Which is not a type of plate boundary?

Where does most metamorphic rocks form?

Which body of water contains Puerto Rico?

Which is the current era?

What is the name of the adopted measurement system scientists use to share scientific information?

Which is the north star?

When does spring occur in the northern hemisphere?

What percentage of oxygen makes up Earth's atmosphere?

The German scientist who proposed the hypothesis of continental drift was named ____ ____.

An astronomical unit is used to measure distance _____ the solar system.

Which is the largest Earth system?

________ are the preserved remains of plants and animals whose bodies were buried in sediments.

Under the right temperature and pressure shale becomes _____.

What is a mineral?

Which variable does a scientist change in an experiment?

Humans live in which layer of the atmosphere?

What is the range in this data set? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

The hottest layer of the sun is the ___________.

What is the name of the phase directly after the full Moon?

In which direction does the Earth rotate?

In the stratosphere temperature ________ as altitude increases.

The long-term average weather conditions that occur in particular region is called ______.