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Earth Science review for 3rd quarter cumulative test
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1
What are the type of waves which cause the ground to move in an elliptical rolling motion?
Rayleigh waves
S waves
P waves
Love waves
2
Sedimentary rocks that weather the fastest contain what type of ingredient?
Calcium
Clay
Carbon
Quartz
3
Which of the following is not a type of air mass?
Maritime tropical
Continental polar
Maritime polar
Maritime continental
4
Which of the following is not considered a contributor of inorganic sediment?
Rivers
Ooze
Meteorites
Glaciers
5
Which law relates to a rock being younger than the other rocks it cuts through?
The law of averages
The law of uniformitarianism
The law of Superposition
The law of crosscutting relationships
6
What is the point on Earth's surface directly above the Earthquake's starting point called?
Elastic rebound
Focus
Fault
Epicenter
7
What are two processes that happen to all landforms?
Hydrolysis and carbonation
Uplift and erosion
Exfoliation and erosion
Exfoliation and oxidation
8
How many half lives must occur for a daughter isotope to become 1/4 of the parent isotope?
3
4
1
2
9
What type of sedimentary rock is formed from minerals dissolved in water?
Cemented
Clastic
Compacted
Chemical
10
Which of the following is not a part of the requirements necessary to be an index fossil?
Clearly distinguishable features
Occurred in fairly large numbers
Lived in a large geologic area
Lived for a long span of geologic time
11
Which of the following statements is correct in regards to specific heat?
Water and land cool at the same rate
Land warms more slowly than water does
Land and water warm at the same rate
Water warms more slowly than land does
12
What type of boundary causes mountains to form?
Divergent boundary
Hot spot
Transform boundary
Convergent boundary
13
What is the force exerted by the leading edge of a subducting plate called?
Tectonic dragging
Ridge push
Slab pull
mantle convection
14
What happens when oceanic and continental plates collide?
Sea floor spreading occurrs
Mountains form
The continental plate subducts under the oceanic plate
The oceanic plate subducts under the continental plate
15
What is the area of low pressure seen by rotating wind that moves toward the central low area?
Stationary front
Midlatitude cyclone
Occluded front
Anticyclone
16
What occurs between oppositely charged ions because of the transfer of electrons from atoms?
Covalent bonding
Chemical bonding
Polar bonding
Ionic bonding
17
What two factors are used to describe climate?
Precipitation and latitude
Topography and precipitation
Latitude and topography
Temperature and precipitation
18
The epicenter of an earthquake can be determined by examining what part of P and S waves?
Departure time
Sleep time
Awake time
Arrival time
19
What method of getting absolute age is it which compares parent and daughter isotopes?
Radioactive decay
Carbon dating
Radiometric dating
Half-life
20
What is movement of heated material caused by differences in density from temperature called?
Convection
Magnetism
Radiation
Conduction
21
What is the name of the active volcanic area usually not found near a tectonic plate boundary?
Atoll
Plume
Guyot
Hot spot
22
What does silica mainly come from?
Nodules
Foraminifera
Diatoms and radiolarians
Calcium carbonates
23
Why are there fault zones at plate boundaries?
Because there are shadow zones there
Because there is not a lot of stress there
Because seismic gaps are there
Because of intense stress that occurs there
24
What type of weathering happens because of high mountains and steep slopes?
Chemical weathering
Neither chemical or mechanical weathering
Mechanical weathering
Chemical and mechanical weathering
25
What is the sum of the number of protons and neutrons in an atom called?
Atomic number
Mass number
Isotope
Electron cloud
26
What is sea-floor spreading final evidence of?
The roundness of the Earth
Continental drift
Law of superposition
The theory of plate tectonics
27
Areas with low, rolling hills formed from mountains are called what?
Peneplains
Plains
Peaks
Plateaus
28
What type of rock movement is described when an unstable portion moves downhill?
Landslide
Slump
Creep
Rockfall
29
What type of metamorphic rock has mineral grains which are arranged into light and dark bands?
NonFoliated
Mafic
Felsic
Foliated
30
Which of the following is not an example of chemical weathering
Acid precipitation
Exfoliation
Hydrolysis
Oxidation
31
What is the gravitational and buoyant equilibrium of the lithosphere and asthenosphere called??
Deformation
Stress
Strain
Isostasy
32
Which of the following is not a part of the compositional structure of the Earth?
Lithosphere
Mantle
Crust
Core
33
Lichens and mosses cause what type of weathering agents to grow on rocks?
Exfoliating
Carbonating
Organic acids
Oxidating
34
What is the series of changes that describe how geologic forces cause rock to change called?
The Wegener hypothesis
Bowen's reaction series
The Milankovitch theory
The law of thermodynamics
35
What is the primary compression wave that causes rock to move parallel with the traveling wave?
Love wave
P Wave
S Wave
Raleigh wave
36
Why is sonar used in oceanography?
To calculate the depth of the ocean floor
To find the temperature of the ocean water
To locate ocean current movement
To identify when earthquakes will occur
37
Which of the following is not a type of mountain?
Dome
Volcano
Rocky
Fault-block
38
In what type of location are seamounts likely to form?
in divergent boundaries
in cold spots
in convergent boundaries
in hot spots
39
Which of the following is not a characteristic of minerals?
Orderly internal structure
Characteristic set of physical properies
Uncharacteristic chemical composition
Natural
40
What is the sudden return of deformed rock to its undeformed shape?
Elastic rebound
Superposition
Uniformitarianism
Shadow zone
41
What part of the Milankovitch theory causes a "wobble" in Earth's axis?
Eccentricity
Tilt
Precession
Seasonal
42
What is an idea supported by evidence acquired through scientific investigation?
Theory
Law
Hypothesis
Observation
43
What is the crystallization and removal of different minerals from cooling magma called?
Partial crystallization
Fractional melting
Fractional crystallization
Partial melting
44
What is a sunken in area that forms from the collapsing of the chamber above it called?
A caldera
A cone
A crater
A cryptic
45
What type of magma or igneous rock is rich in feldspar and silica and usually light in color?
Mafic
Nonfoliated
Felsic
Foliated
46
Which type of farming method conserves topsoil?
Gullying
Mudflowing
Strip-cropping
Sheet erosion
47
What is the mountain called that forms from blocks dropping down relative to each other?
Folded mountains
Fault-block mountains
Dome mountains
Volcanic mountains
48
Which of the following is not a type of stress?
Compresion
Shear
Collision
Tension
49
What is the time half the mass of a parent isotope becoming a daughter isotope called?
radiometric dating
radioactive decay
half-life
carbon dating
50
What holds atoms together because of an attraction between positive and negative charges?
Ionic bonds
Chemical bonds
Valence bonds
Chemical equations
