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Standard X: Earth Science (EC-6th)

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1
_________ consists of the movement of water between the Earth's surface and the atmosphere?
Accumulation
Acid Rain
Precipitation
Water Cycle
2
Theory that all the land masses were once joined together as a single unit called Pangaea?
Continental drift
Manny, Sid, & Diego's journey
Weathering
Plate tectonics
3
What is the uppermost atmospheric layer?
Troposphere
Exosphere
Thermosphere
Stratosphere
4
Choose the planets known as the "inner planets", also known as the terrestrial planets.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, & Mars
Pluto, Mars, Venus
Sun, Moon, Earth
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
5
The sudden release of energy created when rocks break is called?
Weathering
Plate tectonics
Earthquake
Seismic waves
6
What are the three (3) types of plate boundaries?
Moons, Asteroids, & Comets
Inner core, Mantle, & Crust
Convergent, Divergent, & Transform Boundaries
Stratosphere, Mesosphere, & Thermosphere
7
In which of these ways can volcanoes build up new land?
Add lava to the Earth's surface
Change the type of rock on the Earth
Add heat to expand the Earth's surface
Create gases and water vapor
8
Which of the following factors causes seasons on Earth?
The Earth's rotation on its axis and size of the Sun
The size of the solar system in relation to the Sun
The tilt of the Earth's axis and its orbit around the Sun
The Earth's magnetic field and distance from the Sun
9
Earth's Mantle ...
formed from cooled magma such as granite
is the thin outer layer which life exhists
is the inner core
consists mainly of rock
10
Sandstone is an example of which type of rock?
Luster
Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary