Earth Science GMAS Quiz Extravaganza

This layer is a solid because of the massive amount of pressure being exerted on it.

What are the two most abundant gases in our atmosphere?

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a mineral?

What percentage of all water is freshwater?

Which of the following is NOT an example of mechanical weathering?

What causes seasons?

Two main metals that make-up the outer and inner core.

Which is more dense:  cold water or warm water?

Least dense layer

Type of igneous rock that cools slowly inside the earth allowing the mineral crystal to grow.

Which of the following is NOT an example of chemical weathering?

The mass movement of water caused by an underwater earthquake is called a ________________.

Rock formed from sediment that has been weathered and then compacted and cemented together.

Which is more dense:  freshwater or saltwater?

What happens to the salt in seawater when it evaporates?

This layer contains convection currents which flow and move the tectonic plates on the surface.

What scale is used to measure the hardness of a mineral based on a scale of 1-10?

Process of water soaking into the ground that does not runoff.

Process of the water cycle that forms clouds...water changes from a gas to a liquid.

What percentage of water is located in the oceans?

The evaporation of water from plants/trees.

What causes surface currents to form?

The Coriolis Effect is caused by the Earth's _____________.

Type of boundary where two plate pull apart.

Which heats up fast and cools off fast?

Rock type formed from cooled and hardened lava/magma.

Gneiss is an example of a  __________________ metamorphic rocks because it has bands/layers.

The layer of the atmosphere that contains our weather.

Where is the majority of Earth's water located?

Which of the following is not a factor that can change the density of a current?

What percentage of water is drinkable?

The Ring of Fire is an active area of volcanoes around which ocean.

Type of boundary where two plates slide past each other.

Name of Wegener's super continent that once existed about 245 million years ago.

A loose mixture of rock fragments, organic material (humus), water and air.

Type of igneous rock that cools quickly outside of the Earth allowing for no crystals to form.

What are the two most abundant minerals in salt water?

Which of the following is not one of the oceans of the world?

When water changes from a liquid to a gas.

All of the following occur at a divergent boundary except for which of the following.

Where is the majority of freshwater located?

Which of the following is not a type of plate boundary?

Layer of the atmosphere where meteors burn up.

Rain, hail, sleet, or snow

The densest layer of the Earth.

Type of convergent boundary where oceanic crust sinks beneath oceanic crust.

When the oldest rock layers are on the bottom and younger are on top.

Type of rock that forms from heat and pressure.

Weathering breaks down rock into sediment and erosion ____________ it.