Earth Systems Test

Question 1

Energy from the Sun is called _____.

Accepted Answer

solar energy

Question 2

The dropping of materials moved by erosion is called ____.

Accepted Answer

deposition

Question 3

What causes us to have day and night?

Accepted Answer

rotation of the earth on its axis

Question 4

How can people affect the earth?

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mining, drilling, polluting

Question 5

What is caused by earthquakes and saturated earth?

Accepted Answer

landslide

Question 6

Precipitation happens in the water cycle after...

Accepted Answer

water condenses in the air

Question 7

Which resources are renewable?

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Fresh water, corn, wood

Question 8

-------breaks rock apart but does not change what they are made of.

Accepted Answer

physical weathering

Question 9

The moving of weathered rock and soil by water and wind is called______.

Accepted Answer

erosion

Question 10

Breaking down of rock that changes the substance rock is made of.

Accepted Answer

chemical weathering

Question 11

How do natural disasters affect people?

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illness, death, loss of homes, interrupts internet and cell phone service

Question 12

Which resources are nonrenewable?

Accepted Answer

bauxite, coal, oil

Question 13

What can can travel over land at 30mph & rotates at 300mph

Accepted Answer

tornado

Question 14

What occur daily along Earth’s tectonic plates?

Accepted Answer

earthquakes

Question 15

What is caused by an earthquake under the ocean

Accepted Answer

tsunami

Question 16

Renewable resources that can never be used up.

Accepted Answer

inexhaustible resources

Question 17

What are giant wind and rain storms over the ocean?

Accepted Answer

hurricanes

Question 18

What is the most common natural disaster?

Accepted Answer

floods

Question 19

A high pressure system means ...

Accepted Answer

hot good weather

Question 20

What is caused when magma escapes the earth’s mantle ?

Accepted Answer

volcano

Question 21

What is the process which breaks down and changes rock?

Accepted Answer

weathering

Question 22

A barometer measures...

Accepted Answer

air pressure

Question 23

An anemometer measures...

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wind speed

Question 24

A hygrometer measures...

Accepted Answer

humidity

Question 25

What are the layers of the earth from center of the earth out?

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inner core, outer core, mantle, crust, atmosphere

Question 26

What are the three types of rock on Earth.

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igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary

Question 27

A warm front brings...

Accepted Answer

rain showers

Question 28

Which resources are inexhaustible?

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sunlight, geothermal, wind, tides

Question 29

What causes the seasons?

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revolution of the earth around the sun, tilt of the earth

Question 30

A low pressure system indicates ...

Accepted Answer

lousy cold weather

Question 31

Which stage of the water cycle includes streams, lakes and rivers

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run off

Question 32

What reasons do scientist think cause the tectonic plate to move?

Accepted Answer

heat rising and falling through the mantle, pressure from heavier oceanic plates

Question 33

What causes the earth to have polar, temperate and tropical climate zones?

Accepted Answer

shape of the earth

Question 34

Fossil fuels are ____ resources because they are used up faster than they are made.

Accepted Answer

nonrenewable

Question 35

What are the best ways to conserve our resources?

Accepted Answer

reduce, reuse, recycle

Question 36

A cold front brings

Accepted Answer

thunderstorms

Question 37

What is the hottest layer of the earth?

Accepted Answer

Inner Core

Question 38

Clouds, steam and fog are examples of...

Accepted Answer

condensation

Earth Systems Test

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Earth Systems Test

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