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What are the major type of tectonic plates?
Divergent, convergent, transform
Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
convection, sedimentary, metamorphic
Stationary, lithosphere, volcanoes
2
What gets trapped in the atmosphere causing global warming?
Carbon dioxide
Food
Water
Oxygen
3
Why are aquifers vulnerable to pollution?
Travel long distances underground
Animals drink from them
Humans touch them
Carbon can get into them
4
What percent of Earth is covered in water?
71%
50%
65%
90%
5
What 3 types of freshwater sources are their?
Runoff, icebergs, lakes
Frozen, running, standing
All freshwater comes from lakes
Cold, hot, lukewarm
6
What are the climate zones?
polar, temperate, tropical
north pole, equator, tropic of cancer
latitude and longitude
northern and southern hemisphere
7
What are the base quantities in the international system of measurement?
weight,mass,length,width
width,height,depth,length
kilo,hecto,deci
Length,mass,volume,temperature
8
When do spring tides occur?
Sun and moon for a right angle with Earth
Sun and moon are aligned
Midnight
Spring
9
Why was Wegner's theory of continental drift not accepted?
Facts didn't make sense
Albert Einstein said it was wrong
Didn't have enough facts
Didn't have a reasonable explanation
10
What are the 4 mechanism that lift air?
Orographic lifting, Frontal wedging stationary front, occluded front
Orographic lifting, Frontal wedging, convergence, convective lifting
Warm front,cold front, frontal wedging, convergence
Stationary front, occluded front, cold front, warm front
11
When did the Big Bang happen?
100 billion years ago
14 billion years ago
29 billion years ago
100 million year ago
12
How does someone locate and earthquake?
Impossible to locate one
Using tectonic plates
Earthquake waves
Triangulation
13
What are the tools used to measure base quantities?
metric ruler, balance, graduated cylinder, thermometer
scale, yardstick, protractor, ruler
metric ruler, balance beam, measuring cup, thermometer
inclinometer, thermometer, graduated cylinder, compass
14
What is one type of convergent boundary?
Continental rift
Oceanic-Oceanic
Oceanic rift
Convergent boundary has none
15
What are independent variables?
factor that is controlled by the people watching the experiment
Factor that is being manipulated by the experimenter
factors that do not change during the experiment
factor the can change if the independent variable changes
16
What is climate?
How the weather is like for 1000 years
Temporary weather conditions
How the weather is like for a hour
Weather conditions over a long time period
17
What is Kepler's 3rd law?
The planet is closest at perihelion and furthest away at aphelion
A planet travels fastest at perihelion and slowest at aphelion
Earth has the longest year of any planet
Further the planet from the sun, the longer it takes to revolve the sun
18
How do metamorphic rocks form?
Solidification
Depostion and cememtation
Heat and pressure
Weathering and erosion
19
What organisms in the food web are herbivores or omnivores?
Secondary consumers
Tertiary consumers
Primary consumers
Decomposers
20
What is evidence of the Big Bang?
blueshifts
unshifted
microwaves
Redshift
21
What does HIPPO stand for?
Habitat loss, invasive species, population, pollution, overuse
Heliology, ichnology, protons, positive, oxygen
Stands for nothing just a animal
Hands, ink, people, problems, over
22
What is the 3rd step in the scientific method?
organize data
experiment
research
make an educated guess
23
What are endangered animals species?
Animals that have gone extinct
Animals that are super close to extinction
Animals that have a steady population
Animals that are getting close to endangered species
24
What is ecology?
The economy of a city or state
How living things interact with each other and their environment
The study of plants and animals
How people interact with each other in a city
25
What type of biome is dry and has little rainfall?
Savanna
Grassland
Desert
Taiga
26
What are the different wind patterns?
northern, southern, westerlies
Easterlies, trade winds, southernies
Polar easterlies, trade winds, westerlies
polar westerlies, easterlies, trade winds
27
What is region is along the water in NC?
Mountains
Tidewater/outer coastal plain
Inner coastal plain
Fall line
28
How are climates classified?
Tropical, dry, temperate, polar, continental
Wet, icy, oceanic, dry
Hot and cold
Rainy and sunny
29
What 2 types of weathering are there?
Physical and chemical weathering
Polar and tropical weathering
Hot and cold weathering
Oceanic and continental weathering
30
What layer of soil has the most organic matter?
Organic layer (O)
Top soil (A)
Subsoils (B)
Transition (C)
31
What zone of the ocean layers take up the most space?
End zone
Surface zone
Transition zone
Deep zone
32
What is an example of a carbon source?
Agriculture
Soil
Atmosphere
Oceans
33
What are the main branches of Earth Science?
ecosphere, biology, analogy, ideology
Geology, astronomy, meteorology, oceanography
atmosphere, hydrosphere, meteorology, biosphere
Biosphere, geology, oceanography, lithosphere
34
What are the 4 different air mass classifications?
Warm air, cold air, moist air, dry air
Polar, tropical, continental, maritime
temperate, tropical, polar, shoreline
maritime inner land, outer land, poles
35
What river has a V shape?
Mature river
empty river
Old age river
Youthful river
36
How do you find relative humidity?
content/capacity x 100
content/capacity x 10
capacity/content x 10
capacity/content x 100
37
What is the formula for density?
v=d/m
d=v/m
t=d/s
d=m/v
38
How are oil and natural gases formed?
Plants and animals that lived in ocean million of years ago
Dinosaurs
Plants and animals that live on the surface currently
Plants that lived in swampy areas
39
What are main factors that affect earthquake damage?
Tsunamis and tides
Where the earthquake takes place and why
Duration and intensity of the earthquake
What caused the earthquake
40
What is the formula for Kepler's 3rd Law Calculations?
T=a^2
T^2=a^3
T^1=a^2
T^4=a
41
What is the ocean water a mix of?
Ash and rocks
minerals and water
oxygen and carbon dioxide
Gases and solids
42
What process increases salinity?
Runoff
evaporation
precipitation
sea ice melting
43
What is the longest wave length?
Gamma rays
Radio Waves
Ultra Violet Rays
X Rays
44
What does CMBR stand for?
Cost, Master, broke, rides
Condensation, Mesoscale, bacteria, radiation
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Cosmic Money Background Radiation
45
What are 2 factors that affect density?
Cimate and weather
Water and icebergs
Salinity and temperature
low and high pressure systems
46
What percent of the world fresh water is actually available to us?
2%
3%
15%
100%
47
What are 4 agents of erosion?
Water, ice, gravity, wind
Water currents, seasons, wild life, housing
Humans, food, paper, oil
Natural gas, plants, animals, wood
48
What rock type has intrusive and extrusive process?
All rock types
Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
49
What is a example of alternative energy sources?
Solar energy
Burning fossil fuels
Deforestation
nuclear energy
50
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
Core, mantle, crust
lithosphere, asthenosphere, outer core, inner core
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere
exosphere, magnetosphere, thermosphere, troposhere
