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A science quiz for review for our midterm
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1
Mountain top removal, subsurface mining and strip mining are all methods of removing
Coal
Oil Shale
Natural Gas
2
Give an example of a transform boundary
San Andreas fault
The Himalayas
North American plate
3
Independent variable
The factors that are changed by the independent variable
A group that represents a standard for other groups
The factors that you would change during your experiment.
4
Subsoil would be which layer of the soil profile?
The Z layer
The B layer
The organic layer
5
What is the main advantage of nuclear energy
No advantages
No air pollution
No radioactive stuff spewing everywhere
6
True or False: Experiments should measure only one variable
True
False
7
What is a conclusion?
The data taken in the experiment
The beginning of your experiment
The end result of the experiment
8
What was the original supercontinent called?
Pangaea
Eukaryote
Supercontinent
9
What is the main ingredient of natural gas?
Oil
Hydrogen
Methane
10
Interfering with bird migrations is a disadvantage of what type of renewable energy?
Wind energy
Geothermal energy
Solar energy
11
What are the layers of the Earth from inner to outer?
Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust
Crust, Mantle, outer Core, Inner Core
Lithosphere, crust, atmosphere
12
What is intrusive igneous?
Rock formed in the surface
Rock formed below surface
Rock formed above surface
13
Which fossil fuel contains kerogen?
Natural Gas
Tar Sands
Oil Shale
14
Name 3 examples of physical weathering:
Wind, gravity, and glaciers
Temperature, Frost Action, and Rainfall
Carbonation, Oxidation, and glaciers
15
Dependent Variable
The factors that are changed by the independent variable
A group that represents a standard for other groups
The factors that you would change during your experiment.
16
What is the scientific method?
Time consuming
A valuable approach to asking a question
A logical, systematic approach to solving a problem
17
What are the 4 branches of Earth Science
Biology, Anthropology, Architecture, and Physics
Astronomy, Oceanography, Meteorology, and Geology
Oceanography, Topography, Ophthalmology, and Fakeography
18
List the 3 types of rocks in the rock cycle:
Intrusive, extrusive, igneous
Sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic
Metamorphic and igneous
19
What is the top layer of the soil profile?
The organic layer
The A layer
The Z layer
20
Acid mine drainage comes from which type of mining?
Subsurface mining
Strip mining
Mountaintop removal
21
Which fossil fuel is found in plastics and other items?
Oil
Natural Gas
Tar
22
Where does the energy for geothermal come from?
The earth's heat
The sun's heat
Space
23
Burning which fossil fuel is a major cause of acid rain?
Coal
Natural gas
Oil
24
Name 3 agents of erosion
Wind, gravity, and glaciers
Oxidation, gravity, wind
Chemical Weathering, Physical Weathering, and Subsoil
25
What is always the first step of the scientific method?
Ask a question
Make a hypothesis
Record data
26
What are the 3 soil particles?
Sand, silt, clay
Worms, dirt, seeds
Sand, soil, water
27
Uranium, the fuel for nuclear energy, is a non-renewable but not a fossil fuel, why?
It is a fossil fuel
It makes no pollution
It is limited but it doesn’t come from fossils.
28
Which fossil fuel must be cooled and compressed for transport?
Coal
Oil
Natural Gas
29
A puzzle like fit and similar fossils are all evidence of what?
Continental Drift
Tectonic movement
They are no evidence
30
What is the jet stream?
Huge masses of air moving above the earth’s surface
Something that provides rain to the U.S
An ocean current
31
What is the difference between Divergent, Convergent and Transform boundaries?
Divergent=away, Transform=sliding, convergent=together
Divergent=sliding, transform=together, convergent=away
No difference
32
Which fossil fuel can be used to make synthetic oil
Tar Sands
Natural Gas
Liquid coal
33
What does the term “fission” pertain to?
Splitting Hydrogen atoms
Combining Uranium atoms
Splitting Uranium atoms
34
Cinder cone volcanoes are made of?
Sediment
Pyroclastic material
Soil and sand
35
What theory did Wegener come up with
Alternative energy
Stages of the Apocalypse
Continental Drift
36
Control
The factors that are changed by the independent variable
A group that represents a standard for other groups
The factors that you would change during your experiment.
37
Of all the fossil fuels, which one is the cleanest burning?
Natural Gas
Kerogen
Propane
38
What is the main disadvantage of nuclear?
People dislike it
No disadvantages
Leaks and Explosions
39
Carbonation would be an example of which type of weathering?
Chemical Weathering
Physical Weathering
It is not a type of weathering
40
Fly ash, sulfuric dioxide and nitrogen oxide are pollutants released from?
Burning natural gas
Burning Coal
Burning Hydrogen
41
Fossils would be found in which type of rock
Igneous rock
Metamorphic rock
Sedimentary Rock
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What makes a good hypothesis?
One you can test
One that can be easily answered
One that is impossible to test
