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Mrs Eve's 1st Semester Review Earth Science
Mrs Eve's 1st Semester Review Earth Science
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1
The tilt of the earth creates
365 days of the eyar
seasons
night and day
climate
2
The ocean covers how much of the planet?
65%
66-76%
Little OF THE PLANET
72-74%
3
Most of the evolutionists believe that the earth is:
7,000 years old
4.5 billion years old
older then dirt
4.5 million years old
4
Shear is the type of stress that is most significant in causing earthquakes
False
True
5
As scientists we look for
all of the answers
connections
Patterns
relationships
6
S waves are secondary waves
False
True
7
The engineering process includes:
engineering notebook
a model
all of these
retesting
8
Perfect cleavage
feldspar
rocks
Mica
quartz
9
Rock strata may occur
1. horizontally
none of the answers
3. both answers
2. tilted
10
P waves go through the planet
True
False
11
Both Evolution and Biblical Creation are based on faith according to science
True
False
Not really sure!
12
The "o" horizon contains
grass
All of the above!
dead insects
Humus
13
Pangea is a theory that there used to be one continent.
False
True
14
Qualitative data is the observations of the experiment.
True
False
15
The Geological Time Scale is
based on deeptime
uses evolution
All of the answers
is a theory
16
The Large Hedron collider at Cern Institute is trying to recreate the Big Bang.
False
True
17
Major fault lines in the USA are found in mountain ranges
False
True
18
NASA Engineering process includes
listing constraints
all of the answers
engineering note book
making a model
19
What feature on Earth point to a creator?
Just the right distance away form the sun
Just enough Oxygen to support human life
72-74% universal solvent water
I'll take all of these
20
Sedimentary Rock is formed by
heat and pressure
Fire
wind, water compaction
trash compactor
21
A 7.2 to an 8.2 is 32 times great magnitude
True
False
22
Fossils can include:
organisms in amber
corprolites
all of the above
frozen organisms
23
Polystrate Fossils
2. are dinosaur fossils
1. go through multiple strata levels
3. are not from living organisms
1 & 3
24
Igneous Rocks
Both answers
No answers
volcanic rocks
are fire rocks
25
Most Geologists believe coal was made form plants
True
False
26
Elevation is
height
height from the ocean bottom
height from sea level
a long way up
27
Building a model environmentally friendly city would include:
All of these sound good!
renewable resources
sustainable energy
sustainable biological organisms
28
The Rock Cycle is call Unitarianism because
Sedimentary rock formation is never been observed
I don't know????
They all look alike
Might take thousands of years to create metamorphic rocks
29
Which cause an earthquake:
slipping fault
eruption of a volcano
Landslide
all of these sound good
30
An example of compression is pulling something apart.
False
True
31
An example of tension is pulling a string
False
True
32
science bias might affect a conclusion
true
false
33
Sound, light and water travel in:
energy
What?
Waves
a straight line
34
Sedimentary rocks are made
water
wind
compaction
all answers
35
Atoms are smallest building blocks of matter.
False
True
36
strategraphy is the study of
Chemical weathering
strata layers
Karst Topography
soil profile
37
Big Bang Theory or explosion that instantaneously created the universe
False
True
38
Strip mining is not a real problem for the environment.
False
True
39
Historical science is studying the past to help the future!
True
False
40
Index fossil age based on rock strata age is an example of
circular saw
circular reasoning
41
The interior of the earth is a theory
True
False
42
Secular scientists do not believe in creation by God or a world wide flood.
False
True
43
"The present is the key to the past" are the saying for which Theory?
I Law of Thermodynamics
II law of Thermodynamics
Doctrine of Uniformity
Doctrine of the Nerds
44
The Geologic Time scale shows evolution and 4.5 billion years are a fact.
True
False
45
Creation theories include:
Cosmic Inflation
Biblical Creation
Big Bang
These are all creation theories!
46
Gold is measured in
None of these
whats up DOC?
karats
carats
47
Mass can be measured by
mass
volume
weight
all of these
48
Earth Science is the study of the earth and the space around it!
True
False
49
The trace remains of an organism is a
fossil
carpolite
rock
mineral
50
T triangulate GPS I must have_______ satellites
2
4
3
1
51
Liquid Natural energy resource
Natural gas
Crude oil
Coal
All of the above
52
Geologic Time Scale is
example of circular reasoning
all of these answers
age of rock strata
age of index fossils
53
Matter can be found in what following states:
A. gas/ solid
A & B
None of these
B. Liquid/ plasma
54
Nebular Hypothesis shows how the universe could have been created.
True
False
55
Topographical maps display elevation and landforms
False
True
56
Bible derived framework for Genesis includes:
1. Creation and fall
None of the above
2. Flood
1 & 2
57
In the soil profile the ___________ is made of dead matter:
Bedrock
C Horizon
B Horizon
Humus
58
Cosmic Inflation not Big Bang is taught at MIT
True
False
59
The ocean is
salt water
Many names, one ocean
72-74% of the planet
all of the above
60
The deepest hole we have dug is
3 MI.
12 KM.
10 KM.
Not sure????
61
The effort to oversee and control natural resources is called resource management.
False
True
62
The life sustaining area in our solar system is called
Goldilocks Zone
Both of these answers
Habitable Zone
None of these answers
63
Seattle has magma under the ocean with a high buoyancy that might create a tsunamis if it releases.
False
True
64
Molten rock in the earth
magma
minerals
lava
Lithosphere
65
Energy is the ability to do work.
True
False
66
MMI is the magnitude of the earthquake
False
True
67
A code one includes:
ring the nurse/office
all of the answers
MSDS Book
a quiet class
68
Maps are always very complicated representations of part of the earths surface.
False
True
69
Measuring mountain elevation means:
measuring from sea level
measuring from the sea bottom
70
An ice age requires the water cycle to work adding water vapor for snow to form.
False
True
71
The Rock cycle is
Occurs in and on the earth
the whole cycle is on the earth' surface
the whole cycle takes 12 months
the whole cycle can be observed
72
Dendrochonology
Study of plants
Study of soil profile
Study of tree rings
Study of rocks
73
Pangea could be true do to:
continents fit together as a puzzle
all of these are true
glacier scratches match
same type of mountain ranges found on many continents
74
The focus is the actual earthquake underground.
True
False
75
A mistake in reasoning is called a
Fallacy
Truth
hypothesis
Universal negative
76
Coal is
a heavy gas
1. fossil fuel
1&3 are correct
3. a solid fuel