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Earth Science Final Review Part 2
Earth Science Final Review Part 2
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What is the hardness of a glass plate
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3
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Which is an example of divergent boundaries
Himalaya Mountains
California
Red Sea
Japan
3
The most common mineral group in Earth's Crust?
Carbonates
Oxides
Sulfates
Silicates
4
What is the process of number 7
Weather & Erosion
Melting
Heat and Pressure
Cooling and Hardening
5
Which is an example of a transform boundary
California
Red Sea
Iceland
Japan
6
True or False: A lithospheric plate can be made up of both oceanic & continental
False
True
7
What is the process of number 1
Heat and Pressure
Cooling and Hardening
Melting
Weather & Erosion
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The Doppler Effect is caused by
Earth's Rotation
Objects Motion
Revolution
Big Bang
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If the rate of cooling increase, the size of crystal (texture of rock)
decreases
is not affected
cannot be determined
increase
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Minerals form from a hot water source is known as the process of
Hydrothermal
Constructive forces
Crystallization
Destructive forces
11
A fault or igneous intrusion is younger than the rock it intrudes into
Original horizontality
Fossil Succession
Cross-cutting relationships
Superpositioning
12
Convection takes place in which of Earth's layers
Outer Core and Asthenosphere
Inner Core and Asthenosphere
Outer Core and Inner Core
Outer Core and Crust
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Why do plates move?
all are correct
transfer of energy due to density differences
unequal distribution of heat in asthenosphere
Convection
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Minerals are classified by
Composition
Color
how they form
Luster
15
Who discovered Venus goes through phases?
Copernicus
Newton
Galileo
Brahe
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The study of the atmosphere & the process that produce weather & climate?
Geology
Oceanography
Astronomy
Meteorology
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What is the process of number 5
Cooling and Hardening
Compaction & Cementation
Heat and Pressure
Weather & Erosion
18
What happens to the wavelength, if an object moves away from you
it stays the same
it gets shorter - blue shift
it gets longer - red shift
19
An unconformity is
a gap in the rock record
a depositional event
caused by compression and cementing
melting of rock
20
Who had the 3 laws of planetary motion?
Galileo
Newton
Kepler
Brahe
21
What type of plate boundary is where 2 plates move together?
Hot Spot
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
22
Which is an energy source for Earth's interior
Pressure
Friction
Sun
Radioactive decay
23
Fossil record shows
mammals lived before fish
fish occurred before lizards
humans lived with the dinosaurs
older rocks are more complex than today
24
Star distance is measured in
Parsecs
Miles
Light-Years
Astronomical Units
25
50% of the Sun's radiation is absorbed by Earth's surface, it is then remitted
in the same wavelength
it does not get remitted into the atmosphere
in a shorter wavelength
in a longer wavelength
26
How do we know the MASS of stars?
Composition of Stars
Temperature of the Star
binary star systems
Black Hole
27
20% of the Sun's energy is
reflected back into space
absorbed by the atmosphere
absorbed in space
absorbed by Earth's surface
28
In the United States the leeward coast is
the Pacific Coast
the Atlantic Coast
29
Which is an example of Earth being a system?
Cold Front
The North American Plate
The International Space Station
Inner Core
30
Earth's plates consist of which layers of Earth
Upper mantle only
Crust only
Crust and upper most mantle
Inner and outer core
31
Describe the Asthenosphere
Solid
Source of Earth's heat
Silly Putty like
Ridges
32
Which of Kepler's laws states: Planets orbits sweep out equal area over equal time intervals
1st law of planetary motion
3rd law of planetary motion
2nd law of planetary motion
33
What is the process of number 2
Heat and Pressure
Cooling and Hardening
Compaction & Cementation
Weather & Erosion
34
What is the least useful property when identifying minerals?
Streak
Hardness
Cleavage
Color
35
Where does the energy come from to create sedimentary rocks?
Photosynethesis
Radioactive decay
Heat left over from when Earth formed
Sun
36
Earth's North star changes because of Earth's axis slowly/continuously changing-this is know as
rotation
precession
revolution
retrograde motion
37
The resistance to a mineral being scratched
Hardness
Streak
Luster
Fracture
38
What is the process of number 4
Heat and Pressure
Weather & Erosion
Cooling and Hardening
Compaction & Cementation
39
Which layer of the Sun does light originate from?
chromosphere
Photosphere
Corona
Convection Zone
40
Which mineral reacts to HCl (acid)?
Marble
Calcite
Limestone
Quartz
41
Which type of spectrum is associated with white light?
Dark-line/Absorption Spectrum
Bright-line/Emission Spectrum
Visible/Continuous Spectrum
42
Radioactive age dating allows geologist to determine
the half-life of the rock
age of the atoms in the rock
the relative age
the absolute age
43
What element mainly comprises the Sun?
Helium
Oxygen
Hydrogen
Carbon
44
True of False - Ice is a mineral
True
False
45
The SUN is at the center of the universe in which model?
Geocentric
Solar System
Heliocentric
Big Bang
46
Rocks are classified by
Composition
Color
How they form
Luster
47
Relative age of rocks are
exact
absolute
sequenced
definitive
48
Which motion is responsible for causing Day & Night?
Retrograde motion
Revolution
Rotation
Precession
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Fossils of organisms that were widely distributed but only lived for a short period of time
Cast
Trace Fossil
Mold
Index Fossil
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Kepler's first law of motion states - Planets orbits are
Ellipses
Eclipses
Ovals
Circles
