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