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What is the environment?

Everything around a living thing

Something that harms the environment

What is a rain gauge?

A instrument used to measure rainfall

Converting waste into reusable materials

What is a summer monsoon?

The land is warmer than the ocean, winds move towards land

Very small, Very destructive storms

What process forms clouds?

When water vapor in the air cool and become water and ice

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Spring 2017 Final Review

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Earth Science Final Review

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1
In which direction does the Earth rotate?
From East to West
From North to South
From West to East
From South to North
2
What is not a unit used to measure air pressure?
Millibars
Atmosphere
Mph
Newton
3
How many times zones are in the world?
24
23
IT'S OVER 9000
25
4
What is air pressure at sea level?
10N/cm2
10N/cm3
IT'S OVER 9000
1.0N/cm2
5
The tilt of the Earth and how close or far the Sun is causes what?
Neon
Heat
Seasons
Seasoning
6
Answer this one Fast
Wait...
There was no question!
25
I need more time!
7
Day to day changes in the atmosphere at a place and time is called what?
Climate
Wheather
Weather
Microclimate
8
What is not a source of soil conversation?
Black Hole
Terracing
Planting trees
Sparse-cropping
9
What is the environment?
Video Games
Somethings around a living thing
Everything around a living thing
Everything around a nonliving thing
10
Smoke + Fog + Chemicals =
Fire
Smoke + Fog + Chemicals
Money
Smog
11
Air has more capacity to hold water at which temperature?
-10°C
2°C
35°C
40°C
12
What is a pollutant?
The Biosphere
Not Wall-E
Something that harms the environment
The Magnetosphere
13
During the _____ phase of the Moon, half of the side of the Moon facing Earth is visible.
Waning
Gibbous
Quarter
Full
14
Treating water by launching it into the air is called...
Coagulation
Sedimentation
Filtration
Aeration
15
What time zone is California located?
Time Zone
Pacific Standard Time Zone
Pacific Ocean Time Zone
Pacific Standard Time Loop
16
What is a rain gauge?
A instrument used to measure acid rainfall
Mario Kart 7
A instrument used to measure rainfall
A instrument used to measure snowfall
17
How many time zones are there in the 48 states in the continental United States?
0.4
5
4
6
18
Wind going from the sea to land is called?
Solar Breeze
Land Breeze
Seaworld
Sea Breeze
19
A warm, dry air mass forms over...
Polar Land
I'm a wrong answer. LOL
Tropical Ocean
Tropical Land
20
What layer of the atmosphere is helpful to communications?
Skyosphere
Stratosphere
Troposphere
Ionosphere
21
What is recycling?
Converting waste into nuclear energy
Long division
Converting reusable materials into waste
Converting waste into reusable materials
22
Which side of the mountain gets the least rainfall?
Windward
Rain Shadow
Monsoon
Leeward
23
What is not one of the eight phases of the Moon?
3rd Quarter
Waning Quarter
Full Moon
Waxing Gibbous
24
What is sewage?
Waste Sewage
Waste Trees
Waste Litter
Waste Water
25
What is a summer monsoon?
The ocean is warmer than the land, winds move towards ocean
LOTS OF RAIN!
The land is warmer than the ocean, winds move towards land
The Opposite of a Winter Monsoon
26
Is this a Good Quiz?
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
27
How many hours of daylight and darkness are there during an equinox?
12 hours
123 hours
1 hour
12 seconds
28
What are regions of cold heavy air called?
Biomes
Lows
Heavy air
Highs
29
Which side of the mountain does air rise?
The side you climb
Leeward
Windward
Windyward
30
What happens to the temperature as the altitude increases?
It gets dryer
It gets warmer
It gets colder
Is like getting stuck on top of Mount Everest
31
What is an example of a producer?
Human
TV
Flower
Oxygen
32
The average of the minimum and the maximum of the temp. at a certain place in an area is what?
Average Temperature
Angle Temperature
Air Temperature
Temperature
33
Increased rainfall in large cities is caused by …
Litter
Increased rainfall in large cities
Pollution
Pollutant
34
Which part of the Moon’s shadow is the largest?
Mars Rover
Umbrella
Penumbra
Umbra
35
When the Moon has finished half of its revolution around Earth, the Moon is called a ___ Moon
Old
Fill
Full
New
36
Wait, was I supposed to put a question here?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
37
What is released when fossil fuels are burned?
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Carbon Dioxide
Neon
38
The phases of the Moon depend on the positions of Mars, Sun, and Earth.
False
True
Is this a Trick?
39
What is a tornado?
Very small storms
Very small, Very destructive storms
Tropical Storm
Nature's Vacuum
40
The Moon reflects light from the Sun.
False
True
Is this a Trick?
41
A large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat is a what?
Climate
Biome
Ocean
Weather
42
What instrument measures wind speed?
Weather Vein
Air Pump
Anemometer
Psychrometer
43
A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth is between the ___ and the ___.
Sun, Star
Moon, Sun
Earth, Moon
Moon, Star
44
What is not a Nonrenewable Resource?
Fossil Fuel
Water
Minerals
Coal
45
How is a biome mainly identified?
By what elements live there
By what plants live there
By what animals live there
By what plants and animals live there
46
During winter in the Northern Hemisphere the Earth is closest or farthest from the Sun?
Farthest
Closest
47
What do windmills produce?
Steam
Flour
Electricity
Water
48
What gas do plants release into the air?
Carbon Dioxide
Ozone
Pollen
Oxygen
49
What is an example of a consumer?
Google it
Human
Flower
Helicopter
50
What process forms clouds?
When water vapor in the air cool and become water and water
When water vapor in the air cool and become water and ice
When water vapor in the air cool and become meteors and ice
When water vapor in the air cool and become water and hail
51
All of these things affect climate Except.
Snowfall
Weather
Altitude
Rainfall
52
Which kind of solar eclipse is seen more often, a total or a partial solar eclipse?
Total Solar Eclipse
Partial Solar Eclipse
53
Air masses that form over water are...
Dry
Warm Front
Microclimates
Moist
54
What is hard water?
Water containing lots of Calcium and Magnesium
Sleet
Ice
Water containing very little of Calcium and Magnesium
55
How is Earth’s atmosphere warmed?
Radiation Energy from our sun
A very large heater
The Sun, Duh
Radiant Energy from our sun
56
What are the two parts of a shadow?
The umbra and the umbrella
The penumbra
The umbra and the penumbra
Rain and Snow
57
Why does high humidity make warm weather more uncomfortable?
Because there is no oxygen in the air
Because there is a lack of water vapor in the air
TOO MANY MOSQUITOES
Because there is a lot of water vapor in the air
58
A place with lower latitude is...
Cold
Dry
Tropical
Warm
59
What is nuclear energy?
Splitting atoms to create power
Using Salt to create power
Using Uranium to create power
Splitting radiation to create power
60
What poison was released by the explosion of a nuclear reactor in the Ukraine?
Radiation
Nickel-iron
Acid
Oxygen
61
A resource provided by Earth is a...
Nonrenewable resource
Natural Resource
Space
Fossil Fuels
62
The Moon goes through all of its phases in 27⅓ days.
True
Is this a Trick?
False
63
What is not a fossil fuel?
Oil
Coal
Natural Gas
Tree
64
What instrument measures wind direction?
Weather Vein
Clouds
Station Model
Weather Vile
65
What are each of the three climate zones?
Polar, Tropical, Middle
Polar, Troposphere, Middle
Polar, Tropical, Median
Polar Bear, Tropical, Middle
66
What is litter?
Recycled items
Trash lying in open places
Movies
Trash thrown away properly
67
What gas do animals release into the air when they breathe out?
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Carbon Dioxide
Aeration
68
What is humidity?
Amount of trucks in the air
Amount of water vapor in the air
Amount of water in the air
Amount of Earths in the air
69
What is alternate energy?
Energy produced in way other than with Fossil Fuel
Energy produced in factories
Energy produced without anything
Energy produced with Fossil Fuel
70
Have little or no rain is the definition of what?
Drought
Aird
Arid
Desert
71
What is a psychrometer?
An instrument that measures Humanity
An instrument that measures humiliation
An instrument that measures speed
An instrument that measures humidity
72
When water is a gas, what is it called?
Water Vapor
Oxygen
Water
Steam
73
How are winds named?
By what direction they come from
By what direction their going to
They just are
How are winds named?
74
Air pressure is measured in what units?
Milliliters
Minecraft
Millimeters
Millibars
75
What is geothermal energy?
Power that is created by spinning a turbine with water
Coagulation
Electricity
Heat from deep in the Earth to heat water and create steam.
76
What gas do animals breathe in?
Metal
Oxygen
Helium
Carbon Dioxide
77
What is fog?
Something in a galaxy, far, far away
Finals
A Cloud
A cloud that form close to the ground
78
What is transpiration?
The process by which plants give off water
The process by which plants give off water vapor
The process by which plants give off oxygen
The process by which plants give off carbon dioxide
79
What is the shape of Earth’s orbit?
A Circle
A Trapezoid
A Oval
A Square
80
How long does it take the Moon to make one complete revolution around Earth?
2 seconds
27⅓ days
27 years
365¼ days
81
As cool air moves under warm air, warm air gets pushed...
Around
Up
Down
Up and Down
82
If it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?
Spring
Winter
Summer
Fall
83
What is a possible source of nickel-iron?
The Sun
Pluto
Comets
Meteors
84
What is a Mountain Breeze?
Wind going from a valley up a mountain
Wind going from the sea to land
Wind going from land to the sea
Wind going down a mountain into a valley
85
What are the two main forms of precipitation?
Rain, Hail
Rain, Snow
Meteors, Acid Rain
Rain, Ice
86
Weather conditions prevailing in an area over a long period is called what?
The End of the World
Climate
Weather
Microclimate
87
During summer in the Northern Hemisphere the Earth is closest or farthest from the Sun?
Closest
Farthest
88
Wind going from a valley up a mountain is called?
Mountain Breeze
Aeration
Sea Breeze
Valley Breeze
89
The forward edge of a warm air mass is a...
Mars
Warm Front
Warm Back
Cold Front
90
The climate of a very small or restricted area is what
Biome
Climate
Tinyclimate
Microclimate
91
A dry Area on a leeward side of a mountain is what?
Rain Shadow Dessert
A dry area
Leeward Side
Rain Shadow Desert
92
How long does it take Earth to make one complete revolution around the Sun?
The Earth takes 360¼ days to move around the Sun.
The Earth takes 365 days to move around the Sun.
The Earth takes 365¼ days to move around the Sun.
The Earth takes 3 days to move around the Sun.
93
What determines the amount of heat energy an area gets from the Sun?
What microclimate zone it is in.
What climate zone it isn't in.
What climate zone it is in.
Nothing
94
The Earth’s _______ causes the change from day to night.
Revolution
Red
Rotation
Convection
95
Heat moves through Gases and Liquids by...
Solar
Radiation
Conduction
Convection
96
The sun appears to rise in the ___ and set in the ___.
East, West
West, East
(12,24)
Pancakes, Waffles
97
What part of the Moon’s shadow are you in if you see a total solar eclipse?
Rainbow Road
Penumbra
Umbra
You shouldn't look at a Solar Eclipse
98
What is a Land Breeze?
Wind going from the sea to land
Wind going down a mountain into a valley
Wind going from land to the sea
Wind going from a valley up a mountain
99
What gas makes up most of the air?
Carbon Dioxide
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Helium
100
Difference of weather that occurs at a warm front and the weather that occurs at a cold front?
Warm fronts are dry and cold fronts are rainy and humid
Warm fronts are dry and cold fronts are rainy
Warm fronts are rainy and humid and cold fronts are dry
There is no difference
101
Power that is created by spinning a turbine with water is called...
Wind Energy
Aeration
Nuclear Energy
Hydroelectric Power
102
What is the only layer of the atmosphere where weather takes place?
Tropicosphere
Troposphere
Weatherosphere
Biosphere
103
What two factors affect vegetation?
Rainfall and Temperature
Rainfall
Rainfall and Snow
EGGS
104
What is the weather in the eye of the storm?
Calm and Clam
Calm and Peaceful
Peaceful and Destructive
Calm and Productive
105
As water vapor in the air increases, air pressure...
Increases
Stays the same
Decreases
106
What are cirrus clouds?
Dark, feathery clouds
Light, feathery clouds
Light, tall clouds
Light, figure-8 clouds
107
Heat moves through Empty Space by...
Radiation
Convection
Conduction
Solar
108
When something is at max capacity, what is it called?
Saturation
Saturday
Full
Super Mario
109
Someone who studies the weather is called a...
Nerd
Meteorgist
Weatherologist
Meteorologist
110
The Gravitational forces of the Sun and Earth cause tides.
False
True
Is this a Trick?
111
The numerical difference between the minimum and the maximum value of the temp. at a time is...
Temperature range
Weather
Temperature gauge
Temperature
112
What is global warming?
Global warming
The cooling of Earth’s atmosphere
The warming of Earth’s atmosphere
The warming of Earth’s biomes
113
What is a winter monsoon?
The land is warmer than the ocean, winds move towards land
LOTS OF RAIN!
The ocean is warmer than the land, winds move towards ocean
The Opposite of a Summer Monsoon
114
Temperature to which air must be cooled to reach saturation is what?
Dew Point
Wet Point
Spaghetti
Clouds
115
When clouds discharge electricity, it is called...
Thunder
Lighting
Electricity
McDonalds
116
Heat moves through solid object by...
Solar
Radiation
Convection
Conduction
117
The Earth must rotate 24 hrs. and 50 mins. to bring the Moon back into view.
True
False
Is this a Trick?
118
Air at sea level is ______ than air at higher altitudes.
Warter
Warmer
Blank
Colder

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