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Env. Science: Earth Systems
Env. Science: Earth Systems
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What are divergent plate boundaries?
Plates that move past each other
Plates that move apart
Plates that don't move at all
Plates that move together
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This imaginary line splits the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Prime Meridian
Longitudinal
Vertical
Equator
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On a map, Latitude lines move in which direction?
Diagonal
Up and down
Horizontal
Vertical
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What is Erosion?
When rock sediments are transformed into another rock.
The breaking down of rocks.
The wearing down of rocks.
The movement of sediments or rock to one place or another.
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History of the theory of plate tectonics
Sea floor scanning found sea floor spreading
Click here for natural selection
Satellite imaging shows continent movement
Wegener: continents match, same things on different lands
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What Causes Plate Tectonics?
Weather
Volcanoes
Convection
Earthquakes
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Igneous rock...
A rock formed by heat and pressure.
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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How many time zones cover the Earth?
48
6
12
24
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Intrusive igneous rock...
cools quickly and the crystals are small
cools slowly and the crystals are small
cools quickly and the crystals are large
cools slowly and the crystals are large
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This type of wave does not travel through liquid, thus showing that the Earth has a liquid core.
Water wave
P Wave
S Wave
Standing Wave
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This imaginary line splits the Eastern and Western Hemispheres and is the beginning of the time zones.
Prime meridian
Longitudinal
Equator
Horizontal
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In an Earthquake, which wave travels the fastest?
Standing Wave
P Wave
S Wave
Water Wave
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What is a sedimentary rock?
formed from pieces of other rocks that are cemented together
crust
composition
heat and pressure
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This instrument lets you know what direction you are facing.
A straight edge
A Anemometer
A Protractor
A Compass
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Top to bottom, a soil horizon:
O horizon, A horizon, B horizon, C horizon
C horizon, B horizon, A horizon, O horizon
A horizon, O horizon, B horizon, C horizon
A horizon, B horizon, O horizon C horizon
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Click the definition of: Extrusive Igneous Rock
An Igneous rock that is not under ground.
A rock that blows up from the inside.
A rock that rides a bike.
An Igneous rock that forms, and stays under ground.
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Damage to soil as a result of deforestation or removal of topsoil from bare land
Soil Degredation
Terracing
Oil Spill
Soil Erosion
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Most Earthquakes happen along...
Fracking zones
Plate interiors
Water ways
Plate Boundaries
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What are the three main layers of the Earth?
Rock, Minerals, Soil
Crust, Manatee, Core
Sky, Land, Water
Crust, Mantle, Core
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How many MAIN rocks are in the rock cycle.?
100
3
5
7
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Define: Rock Cycle
A process that slowly change rocks from one kind to another
Only happens to igneous rocks
Happens to only chemical rocks
A process that quickly change rocks from one kind to another
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What is pangea...?
Water
Volcano
Land
Super continent
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What is Weathering?
A process where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.
None of the above
A process where rocks stay the same shape.
The weather changes drastically.
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Metamorphic rock
created from previously existing rock by intense heat+Pressure
A plate Boundary
Young
A Fossil
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Movement of this creates the Earth's magnetic field.
Liquid Core
Magma
Solid Core
Water
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This is the location on the Earth's crust directly above an Earthquake.
Mantle
Ring of Fire
Focus
Epicenter
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What are transform plate boundaries?
Plates that don't move at all
Plates that move together
Plates that move past each other
Plates that move apart
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This is the location of an Earthquake.
Epicenter
Focus
Ring of Fire
Mantle
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Plate Tectonics
gave rise to today's continents
Are convection currents deep with in the Earth's crust.
The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion
States that the Earth is completely stable and unchanging.
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What are convergent plate boundaries?
Plates that move apart
Plates that don't move around at all
Plates that move past each other
Plates the move together
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This is the layer that connects the crust and mantle.
Hemisphere
Lithosphere
Core
Asthenosphere
