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Mrs Eve's 1st Semester Review Earth Science
Mrs Eve's 1st Semester Review Earth Science
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1
Creation theories include:
Biblical Creation
Cosmic Inflation
Big Bang
These are all creation theories!
2
Sedimentary rocks are made
compaction
all answers
wind
water
3
What feature on Earth point to a creator?
Just enough Oxygen to support human life
Just the right distance away form the sun
I'll take all of these
72-74% universal solvent water
4
T triangulate GPS I must have_______ satellites
2
3
4
1
5
A 7.2 to an 8.2 is 32 times great magnitude
True
False
6
The life sustaining area in our solar system is called
Both of these answers
None of these answers
Goldilocks Zone
Habitable Zone
7
Most Geologists believe coal was made form plants
False
True
8
Dendrochonology
Study of rocks
Study of plants
Study of soil profile
Study of tree rings
9
The Geologic Time scale shows evolution and 4.5 billion years are a fact.
True
False
10
Fossils can include:
organisms in amber
frozen organisms
corprolites
all of the above
11
P waves go through the planet
True
False
12
The deepest hole we have dug is
Not sure????
3 MI.
10 KM.
12 KM.
13
Seattle has magma under the ocean with a high buoyancy that might create a tsunamis if it releases.
True
False
14
An example of compression is pulling something apart.
True
False
15
Pangea could be true do to:
continents fit together as a puzzle
same type of mountain ranges found on many continents
all of these are true
glacier scratches match
16
A mistake in reasoning is called a
hypothesis
Universal negative
Truth
Fallacy
17
Igneous Rocks
Both answers
No answers
are fire rocks
volcanic rocks
18
Bible derived framework for Genesis includes:
None of the above
1. Creation and fall
1 & 2
2. Flood
19
Liquid Natural energy resource
Coal
Crude oil
Natural gas
All of the above
20
The "o" horizon contains
dead insects
All of the above!
grass
Humus
21
MMI is the magnitude of the earthquake
False
True
22
Molten rock in the earth
Lithosphere
magma
lava
minerals
23
An example of tension is pulling a string
False
True
24
Shear is the type of stress that is most significant in causing earthquakes
False
True
25
Most of the evolutionists believe that the earth is:
4.5 billion years old
4.5 million years old
7,000 years old
older then dirt
26
Perfect cleavage
rocks
quartz
Mica
feldspar
27
Measuring mountain elevation means:
measuring from sea level
measuring from the sea bottom
28
Building a model environmentally friendly city would include:
All of these sound good!
sustainable biological organisms
sustainable energy
renewable resources
29
Polystrate Fossils
1 & 3
3. are not from living organisms
2. are dinosaur fossils
1. go through multiple strata levels
30
science bias might affect a conclusion
false
true
31
Geologic Time Scale is
example of circular reasoning
all of these answers
age of rock strata
age of index fossils
32
The focus is the actual earthquake underground.
False
True
33
The Geological Time Scale is
All of the answers
based on deeptime
uses evolution
is a theory
34
Secular scientists do not believe in creation by God or a world wide flood.
False
True
35
An ice age requires the water cycle to work adding water vapor for snow to form.
True
False
36
The tilt of the earth creates
night and day
climate
365 days of the eyar
seasons
37
Coal is
a heavy gas
1&3 are correct
1. fossil fuel
3. a solid fuel
38
The engineering process includes:
retesting
a model
all of these
engineering notebook
39
Matter can be found in what following states:
None of these
A. gas/ solid
B. Liquid/ plasma
A & B
40
In the soil profile the ___________ is made of dead matter:
Bedrock
B Horizon
Humus
C Horizon
41
Topographical maps display elevation and landforms
True
False
42
Earth Science is the study of the earth and the space around it!
True
False
43
Gold is measured in
None of these
karats
whats up DOC?
carats
44
Rock strata may occur
1. horizontally
2. tilted
none of the answers
3. both answers
45
"The present is the key to the past" are the saying for which Theory?
II law of Thermodynamics
I Law of Thermodynamics
Doctrine of the Nerds
Doctrine of Uniformity
46
Which cause an earthquake:
eruption of a volcano
all of these sound good
slipping fault
Landslide
47
Big Bang Theory or explosion that instantaneously created the universe
False
True
48
The Rock Cycle is call Unitarianism because
Might take thousands of years to create metamorphic rocks
They all look alike
Sedimentary rock formation is never been observed
I don't know????
49
Qualitative data is the observations of the experiment.
False
True
50
Cosmic Inflation not Big Bang is taught at MIT
False
True
51
Major fault lines in the USA are found in mountain ranges
False
True
52
The trace remains of an organism is a
rock
mineral
carpolite
fossil
53
The Rock cycle is
Occurs in and on the earth
the whole cycle is on the earth' surface
the whole cycle takes 12 months
the whole cycle can be observed
54
As scientists we look for
relationships
all of the answers
Patterns
connections
55
Pangea is a theory that there used to be one continent.
True
False
56
The interior of the earth is a theory
False
True
57
Sedimentary Rock is formed by
wind, water compaction
trash compactor
Fire
heat and pressure
58
Energy is the ability to do work.
True
False
59
Elevation is
a long way up
height
height from sea level
height from the ocean bottom
60
Mass can be measured by
mass
all of these
volume
weight
61
Strip mining is not a real problem for the environment.
True
False
62
Nebular Hypothesis shows how the universe could have been created.
False
True
63
Both Evolution and Biblical Creation are based on faith according to science
Not really sure!
False
True
64
Sound, light and water travel in:
What?
a straight line
energy
Waves
65
NASA Engineering process includes
listing constraints
engineering note book
all of the answers
making a model
66
A code one includes:
a quiet class
all of the answers
MSDS Book
ring the nurse/office
67
strategraphy is the study of
soil profile
Karst Topography
strata layers
Chemical weathering
68
Index fossil age based on rock strata age is an example of
circular reasoning
circular saw
69
S waves are secondary waves
False
True
70
The Large Hedron collider at Cern Institute is trying to recreate the Big Bang.
False
True
71
Historical science is studying the past to help the future!
True
False
72
Maps are always very complicated representations of part of the earths surface.
True
False
73
Atoms are smallest building blocks of matter.
False
True
74
The effort to oversee and control natural resources is called resource management.
False
True
75
The ocean covers how much of the planet?
66-76%
72-74%
65%
Little OF THE PLANET
76
The ocean is
salt water
72-74% of the planet
all of the above
Many names, one ocean