402 and 401 Final Review

Question 1

Fossils providing evidence an organism once existed, such as footprints or trails, are called

Accepted Answer

trace fossils

Question 2

Where do stars spend most of their lives

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Main sequence

Question 3

How much of the parent and daughter material is left after 2 half lives

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parent 25% daughter 75 %

Question 4

What destroys good ozone

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Chlorine

Question 5

Which group of fossils make the best index fossils

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A

Question 6

Subduction zones create the following features

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Trenches and Volcanoes

Question 7

Evidence of the Big Bang Theory

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cosmic background radiation

Question 8

Relative age of rocks based on their position in sedimentary layers.

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Superposition

Question 9

An interaction between biosphere and biosphere would be

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the grass provides energy for the sheep when they consume it

Question 10

Which event is younger given principles of relative dating?

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A is younger than D

Question 11

Season the sun hits the tropic of Cancer directly and the northern hemisphere has longer days

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Summer

Question 12

What marks the end of an era?

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mass extinction

Question 13

The two most abundant gases in our atmosphere are

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Nitrogen and Oxygen

Question 14

Which type of graph is best for displaying parts of a whole or percentages

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Pie chart

Question 15

The season we would experience when the Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun.

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Winter

Question 16

The type of rock in which we are most likely to find fossils would be __________

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Sedimentary

Question 17

Convection is the method of heat transfer that occurs in

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Liquids and Gases

Question 18

According to Kepler where would a planet have the greatest speed.

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between A and B

Question 19

When a rock is exposed to intense heat and pressure it will be come a ______________

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Metamorphic Rock

Question 20

All of the following are factors that affect climate except.

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Frontal boundaries

Question 21

As altitude increases, the density of atmospheric air _____________

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Decreases

Question 22

What branch of science involves movement and energy?

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Physics

Question 23

Different parts of Earth receive different amounts of solar energy. This causes Earth to have

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Winds

Question 24

Why does Earth's tilted axis cause summer to be warmer than winter in New Jersey?

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The Sun's rays strike more directly in the summer.

Question 25

In what ways does Carbon move from plants to animals

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Plants produce Carbon eaten by animals

Question 26

Type of rock that forms when sediments are compacted, cemented and buried.

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Sedimentary

Question 27

Scientists believe the force that moves the lithospheric plates is caused by

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Convection currents

Question 28

The gas present in our atmosphere that protects us from the Sun’s Ultra Violet radiation is

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Ozone

Question 29

Which piece of evidence was not NEWLY discovered with the plate tectonic theory.

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Fossil evidence in Antarctica

Question 30

What process occurs when one plate sinks beneath another and is forced back into the mantle?

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Subduction

Question 31

Place where stars spend most of their lives

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Main Sequence

Question 32

In which of Earth's atmospheric sub layers do artificial satellites orbit?

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Exosphere

Question 33

The method of energy transfer through waves (Sun heats the Earth through this method)

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Radiation

Question 34

What two factors influence Newton's law of Universal Gravitation?

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distance and mass

Question 35

Which step of the water cycle involves a state change from gas to liquid

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condensation

Question 36

The type of plate boundaries that are constructive and occur near a mid ocean ridge

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Divergent

Question 37

What is the half-life of Mercury-203

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48 days

Question 38

How is good ozone created

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sun splits oxygen gas molecules

Question 39

The major layers of the Earth’s atmosphere in order from lowermost to uppermost are

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Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere

Question 40

Wegener's theory included the following evidence except

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evidence from sea floor spreading

Question 41

Which type of graph is best for displaying variables to show a trend or pattern

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Line graph

Question 42

What is the main order of the progression of life from earliest to latest.

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bacteria, fish, reptiles, mammals

Question 43

Which type of graph is best to compare data in a common category

Accepted Answer

bar graph

Question 44

The layer of Earth’s atmosphere where weather occurs is the ____________

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Troposphere

Question 45

The movement of broken down rock from one place to another is called _________________

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Erosion

Question 46

What is responsible for creating an oxygen rich atmosphere?

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photosynthesis

Question 47

What causes groundwater recharge

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precipitation and infiltration

Question 48

Seafloor spreading provides evidence of which of the following Earth processes?

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Movement of crustal plates

Question 49

The temperature of a star can be found if you know it's ...

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Color

Question 50

Warm air rises and cool air sinks because

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Cool air is denser than warm air

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