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Y8 Earth Science
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What is the thickest layer of the earth's structure?
Outer Core
Inner Core
Crust
Mantle
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Plate boundaries are where
continents meet
where plates are moving apart
tectonic plates meet
where the oceans meet the continents
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Mechanical/Physical or Chemical Weathering
Mechanical-Physical
Chemical
Neither
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Which of these does NOT come out of a volcanoe
Lava
Volcanic bombs
Ash
Magma chamber
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How did Tane separate Rangi and Papa?
He pushed them apart with his legs
He killed them
He left them in peace
He cut them with a knife
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What is Erosion?
When rock sediments are transformed into another rock.
The movement of sediments or rock to one place or another.
The wearing down of rocks.
The breaking down of rocks.
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What is a fossil?
all of the above
organism or imprint that was buried and turned to stone
an imprint from an organism that has been preserved
part of an organism that has been preserved
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Sedimentary rock is
A rock formed by cooling magma.
A rock formed by layers of sediments, compacted and cemented
A rock that formed by heat and pressure
A rock that falls from the sky.
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What are convergent plate boundaries?
Plates the move together
Plates that move past each other
Plates that move apart
Plates that don't move around at all
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You would most likely find this rock near a volcano.
sedimentary
metamorphic
igneous
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Mechanical/Physical or Chemical Weathering
Neither
Mechanical-Physical
Chemical
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The Outer Core is...
A Liquid
A Solid
A Gas
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Which of these are not in the rock cycle?
evaporation
heat and pressure
uplifting
melting
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The Inner Core is...
A solid
A liquid
A Gas
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Define: Rock Cycle
Only happens to igneous rocks
A process that slowly change rocks from one kind to another
Happens to only chemical rocks
A process that quickly change rocks from one kind to another
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what are the three types rock.
sedimentary, limestone, metamorphic
sedimentary,igneous,metamorphic
igneous,metamorphic,limestone
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Example of Sedimentary rock?
Sandstone, limestone, mudstone
Stone
Marble
Sand, limes, mud
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Who came up with continental drift theory?
Charles Darwin
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Wegener
Georges Lemaitre
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what are the 3 types of plate boundaries
congruent, diverse, translate
divergent, convergent, transform
divergent, convert, transparent
separate, closed, dilated
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Which are fossil fuels?
coal
oil
All of the above
natural gas
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What is Continental Drift?
The theory that the continents move
large sections of the earth crust
the boundary of continents colliding
the cycle of heating, rising, cooling and sinking
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What are transform plate boundaries?
Plates that slide past each other
Plates that move together
Plates that move apart
Plates that don't move at all
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What does convection in the mantle create?
Volcanoes
All of the above
Subduction zones
Mountains
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Fossils are often found in this rock.
igneous
metamorphic
sedimentary
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Scientists can predict earthquakes
True
False
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Which statement is true about the structure of Earth?
Earth is made up of several layers.
Earth is all liquid rock under the surface.
Earth's surface is a solid sheet of rock.
Earth's surface always stays the same.
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Igneous rock...
A rock formed by heat and pressure then cooled by magma.
Rock formed by cooling magma.
A rock that falls from the sky.
A rock formed by layers of sediments, compacted and cemented.
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What part of the volcanoe is this
magma chamber
volcanic bombs
vents
ash
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What layer of the Earth does convection take place?
Crust
Mantle
Outer core
Inner core
