Unit E: Planet Earth Review

Question 1

What is the name of the solid layer made up of the crust and mantle?

Accepted Answer

lithosphere

Question 2

What is the name of a fossil formed from the cavity an organism leaves behind?

Accepted Answer

Cast

Question 3

The picture shows someone testing which property?

Accepted Answer

streak

Question 4

What is lava called when it is underground?

Accepted Answer

magma

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT one of the 5 most common minerals on Earth?

Accepted Answer

diamond

Question 6

Which of the following is ONLY underground during an earthquake?

Accepted Answer

focus

Question 7

What causes any rock to become an igneous rock?

Accepted Answer

melting and cooling

Question 8

A landslide is an example of what?

Accepted Answer

erosion

Question 9

What are two formations you would expect to see in mountain building?

Accepted Answer

folds and faults

Question 10

What events are common along plate boundaries?

Accepted Answer

All Three

Question 11

What is the name of a scientist who studies fossils?

Accepted Answer

Paleontologist

Question 12

What is the name for a rock formed from heat or pressure changing another rock?

Accepted Answer

metamorphic rock

Question 13

What is the name for drilling cylindrical cores to examine rock?

Accepted Answer

exploration

Question 14

Which type of boundary is shown in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Question 15

What type of rock can you find fossils in?

Accepted Answer

Sedimentary

Question 16

What are the layers in sedimentary rock called?

Accepted Answer

strata

Question 17

As you go deeper in rock layers, fossils become...

Accepted Answer

older

Question 18

Which of the following boundaries would create the TALLEST mountains?

Accepted Answer

Continent-Continent Convergent

Question 19

What is it called when one plate is forced DOWN beneath another tectonic plate?

Accepted Answer

subduction

Question 20

What is the name of the solid layer of rock beneath the topsoil layer?

Accepted Answer

bedrock

Questions 20