Final Exam Review - Earth Science Part 1- Patuxent High School - Yurko

Question 1

When the elastic limit is passed rocks will break and move along surfaces called faults.

Accepted Answer

earthquakes

Question 2

Which of the following processes cause sediments

Accepted Answer

weathering and erosion

Question 3

Ice wedging is caused by:

Accepted Answer

water freezing and thawing

Question 4

The molten material deep inside the Earth that igneous rocks form from is called

Accepted Answer

magma

Question 5

an atom with the same number of protons, but different number of neutrons

Accepted Answer

isotope

Question 6

Rocks that form from volcanic activity are?

Accepted Answer

igneous

Question 7

Dinoasurs lived during what Era:

Accepted Answer

Mesozoic

Question 8

Erosion can best be described by which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A river carries silt to the ocean

Question 9

What is thought to be responsible for crustal plate motion?

Accepted Answer

convection

Question 10

Chemical weathering occurs faster in what kinds of climates?

Accepted Answer

warm and moist

Question 11

Many active volcanoes form around the edge of the Pacific Plate forming:

Accepted Answer

Pacific Ring of Fire

Question 12

A sample mineral breaks along a smooth flat surface; what physical property is present?

Accepted Answer

cleavage

Question 13

Earth formed about ____________ years ago?

Accepted Answer

4.6 billion

Question 14

A rock layer must be younger than all the layers through which it cuts...this is called

Accepted Answer

law of cross cutting relationships

Question 15

Whose theory of Continental Drift set up the theory of plate tectonics?

Accepted Answer

Alfred Wegner

Question 16

Magma can melt through the crust to form many landforms. What is an example of this?

Accepted Answer

Hawaiian Islands

Question 17

Humans appeared in the:

Accepted Answer

Cenozoic Era

Question 18

A layer of rock that stores water:

Accepted Answer

aquifer

Question 19

Seafloor spreading is further evidence that:

Accepted Answer

plate tectonics may be true

Question 20

Magma can melt through the crust to form landforms such as:

Accepted Answer

Hawaiian Islands

Questions 20