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Review of Earth Science Topics
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1
When Earth is not leaning towards or away from the sun but climate is slowly warming.
Winter
Summer
Spring
Fall
2
The long-term average weather conditions of an area is referred to as its?
Seasons
Climate
Weather
Solar Intensity
3
Divergent boundaries create what geologic feature?
Mountains and Volcanoes
Super Volcanoes
Trenches and Valleys
Earthquakes
4
The changes in the _ of rock due to heat and pressure is what powers convection currents.
Density
Weight
Composition
Mass
5
When the hemisphere you live in is tilted away from the sun causing cooler climates.
Fall
Winter
Summer
Spring
6
What plate boundary forces plates together, causing them to rise or sink under one another?
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
Inverted
7
When Earth is not leaning towards or away from the sun but climate is slowly cooling.
Spring
Summer
Winter
Fall
8
The geologic time scale is a scientific model of what?
Layers of Earth.
Age of rocks based on carbon dating.
Age of rock layers based on the fossils in them.
Types of rocks present in Earth's crust.
9
The farther away from Earth's ___you travel, the more drastic the seasonal climate changes are.
Surface
Atmosphere
Core
Equator
10
Scientists developed the geologic time scale for what purpose or function?
To identify rock types.
measure or track time based on extinctions and speciations
To identify when evolution is occurring.
create visual of layers of Earth b/c they cant be seen
11
What plate boundary rubs alongside one another in opposite directions?
transform
divergent
convergent
inverted
12
What plate boundary pulls plates away from one another?
divergent
convergent
inverted
transform
13
When the hemisphere you live in is tilted towards the sun causing warmer climates.
Fall
Summer
Winter
Spring
14
Transform boundaries form what geologic events?
Supervolcanoes
Earthquakes and Fault Lines
Mountains and Volcanoes
Trenches and Valleys
15
Current atmospheric conditions such as temperature, humidity and precipitation in a given area.
Weather
Climate
Seasons
Solar Intensity
16
Convergent boundaries form what geologic features?
Valleys and Trenches
Earthquakes
Mountains and Volcanoes and Tsunamis
Super Volcanoes
17
What two factors cause temperature to increase as you go deeper into Earth’s layers?
Satan and his demons.
Collisions of rock and atmospheric pressure.
Chemical reactions with sulfur and CO2 in the mantle.
Pressure and friction from Earth spinning on its axis.
18
Which of the following choices best describe what seasons are and why they occur?
Changes in weather due to changes in the calendar.
Regular changes in climate b/c Earth sits on a tilted axis.
Changes in daily weather due to proximity to the sun.
Changes in climate due to atmospheric chemical reactions.
19
_ currents are the driving force behind plate movement.
Contraction
Confection
Constriction
Convection
20
Solar intensity increases or decreases with?
latitude
longitude
aptitude
attitude
21
A _ is the hardened remains of a once living organisms.
Imprint
Rock
Fossil
Bone
22
Plate tectonic theory states the Earth’s crust is broken up into numerous____.
Parts
Pieces
Groups
Plates
23
The closer to the equator you live, the darker your skin is likely to be.
False
True
24
_is when a large percentage of organisms cease to exist, marking change in geologic time.
Armageddon
Annilation
Extinction
Speciation
25
_is when a large percentage of new organisms appear, also marking geological time.
Extinction
Speciation
Flourishing
Reproducing
