Earth Science SOL Review

The average salinity of oceans is 3.5%, what will cause an INCREASE in this salinity?

Wind flows in what direction?

What type of rock are most fossils found in?

The Sun (and other stars) convert Hydrogen into Helium through what process?

Deposition is greatest in what areas?

The water table is located where?

Which of the following is NOT true of the terrestrial planets?

Which location gets the most direct sunlight?

What is NOT true of index fossils?

What causes the Earth to have seasons?

Materials made up of rounded well sorted pieces will have

Carbon-14 is used to determine the absolute age of what material?

What type of pressure system produces fair weather, circulates CW, and air sinks

What is the most abundant mineral group?

What type of eclipse is shown below?

What type of solar system debris originates in the Oort Cloud?

How many seismographs are need to locate the epicenter?

Which of the following Eras are matched correctly?

Which Virginia province has abundant coal?

Solar eclipses will only happen during what moon phase?

Which of the following is NOT an example of an extrusive igneous rock?

What type of clouds are light, thin, and wispy

Which soil horizon contains humus?

Which of the following is true of Cold Fronts?

In order for clouds to form, the air has to be cooled to what temperature?

Which of the following are true according to Kepler's Laws?

200 grams of radioactive Polonium with half life of 50 years.  How manygrams left after 50 yrs

Which of the following is not true of all minerals?

Which of the following is an example of POINT source pollution?

The inner core is made up of Iron and 

The location where the rock breaks or moves causing an earthquake is known as the 

The geocentric model places what at the center of the solar system?

What type of rocks is formed from cementation and compaction?

Intrusive igneous rocks have what type of texture?

Who challenged the view of Ptolemy's and proposed the heliocentric model?

What is the following phase of the moon?

Using the representative scale below, 1 cm on the map equals how many cm on the ground?

Which is YOUNGER, rock layer 3 or 4?

What type of tides have the greatest tidal range (Earth, Sun, Moon all aligned)

Which of the following are true of OCEAN crust compared to CONTINENTAL crust?

What weather instrument measures air pressure?

Earths atmosphere is made up of 78%: 

What type of sediment will settle out first?

The weather in the US is controlled by what wind belt?

This theory explains the formation of the Sun and the planets.

What is the metric unit of measurement for length?

What evidence supports the dinosaur extinction theory (65 myo)

What type of metamorphism affects a large area and typically occurs during mountain building?

Which lines measure North and South of the Equator?

Fusion takes place in what part of the Sun?

What type of mountains are the Appalachian?

The deflection of air in the atmosphere is caused by what?

A star that is actively fusing hydrogen to helium is what type of star?

What type of weathering occurs without a chemical change?

Which plate boundary will trenches occur at? (select all that are true)

Which of the following are not true of oceans?

What is the density of a rock that has a mass of 20 g and volume of 10?

What characteristic determines the life cycle of a star?

What is the greatest agent of erosion?

What type of materials make the best aquifers?

What is the banding or layering within metamorphic rocks called?

As the temperature of an object INCREASES, what will happen to its density?

What is the approximate distance between Cominotto and Valletta on the map below?

Estuaries occur when freshwater rivers meet ocean water, what is an example of an estuary?

According to the Impact Theory, the moon formed as result of what?

What 2 planets is the asteroid belt located between?

Which of the following is not true of topographic maps?

Which is YOUNGER, 6 (intrusion)or 7 (fault)?

What is the pressure of the location below?

What type of waves are P-waves