What is the Atmosphere?

The sphere of the earth that contains all the earths vapor

Which if the following is NOT true?

Plants are a non renewable reasource because they produce food

What is the Biosphere?

The sphere of the earth that contains all the earths living organisms

Preserved remains or traces of living things

What is the Hydrosphere?

The sphere of earth that contains all the liquid, frozen, and gasous water

a non renewable resource is...

A reource that forms more slowly that it is used (It can run out).

Finding a fossil of a palm tree in Alaska could be explained if the climate of Alaska ___.

Was once warmer than it is today.

a renewable resource is...

a natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate it is used

What is the Geosphere?

The sphere that contains all the earths land including under the ocean

If you found a fossil of a freshwater fish in a desert, what could you conclude?

A river once flowed through the desert.

Tropical plant fossils have been found in Antarctica. This indicates that _____.

The climate of Antarctica was once warmer.

Which of the following is NOT a piece of evidence Wegener used to make his theory of Continental Drift?

The same animals alive today are found in both Africa and South America.

A fossil of an ocean fish was found in a rock, on top of a mountain. This probably means that _____.

The mountain rose from the ocean, years after the fish died.

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1
What is the Atmosphere?
The sphere of the earth that contains all the earths living organisms
The sphere that contains all the earths land including under the ocean
The sphere of the earth that contains all the earths vapor
The sphere of earth that contains all the liquid, frozen, and gasous water
2
Which if the following is NOT true?
Plants are a non renewable reasource because they produce food
Natural gas is a non-renewable reasource and should be conserved
Carbon Dioxide is a renewable reasource that is all around us
Water is a renewable reasource and should be conserved
3
What kind of energy is natural gas?
Non - Renewable
Renewable
4
What does the term renewable energy source mean?
Energy that can be all used up
Energy that can be lost
Energy that can be replenished
5
What happens the deepr you go down in the earths layers with fossils?
Fossils become older
Fossils become more diverse
Fossils become younger
Fossils look cooler
6
A footprint or handprint is an example of this type of fossil:
Trace Fossils
Entire Organsim Fossils
Relative Fossils
Petrified fossils
7
What does the term non-renewable energy source mean?
Energy that can be repenished
Energy that can run out
Energy that can be used more than once
8
What are the scratches in bedrock called that led Alfred Wegener to prove climates changed?
Glaicial Grooves
Glaciers
Bedrock Scratches
Glaicial Remain
9
A type of fossil where a small life form is preserved in tree sap
Tree Sap Fossils
Trace Fossils
Amber Fossils
10
What is the Biosphere?
The sphere of earth that contains all the liquid, frozen, and gasous water
The sphere that contains all the earths land including under the ocean
The sphere of the earth that contains all the earths living organisms
The sphere of the earth that contains all the earths vapor
11
What are fossils?
Animals that died 400 years ago
Animals that recently died
One celled animals
Preserved remains or traces of living things
12
What kind of energy is coal?
Non - Renewable
Renewable
13
What is the Hydrosphere?
The sphere that contains all the earths land including under the ocean
The sphere of the earth that contains all the earths living organisms
The sphere of the earth that contains all the earths vapor
The sphere of earth that contains all the liquid, frozen, and gasous water
14
A fossil is at least...
2000 years old
5000 years old
4000 years old
3000 years old
15
a non renewable resource is...
A reource that forms more slowly that it is used (It can run out).
a natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate it is used
any natural material used by humans
16
Finding a fossil of a palm tree in Alaska could be explained if the climate of Alaska ___.
Was once warmer than it is today.
Was once colder than it is today.
Is currently changing.
Has always been the same as it is now.
17
What type of resource is wind?
Non- Renewable
Renewable
18
Oil is a Renewable Resource
True
False
19
a renewable resource is...
a resource that forms much more slowly than it is consumed
any natural material that is used by humans
a natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate it is used
20
When Alfred Wegener created his Theory of Continental Drift it was widely accepted and celebrated.
True
False
21
Which is an example of Earth's renewable reasources?
Natural gas and sunlight
Coal and Trees
Water and Plants
Oil and Water
22
Which of the following is NOT true about fossil fuels?
They are easily produced
They take millions of years to reproduce
They are non-renewable
They occur naturally in the enviroment
23
Coal, oil and natural gas are non-renewable resources also known as __________?
Fossil Fuels
Radioactive
Biomass
Recycleable
24
What is the Geosphere?
The sphere of the earth that contains all the earths living organisms
The sphere that contains all the earths land including under the ocean
The sphere of the earth that contains all the earths vapor
The sphere of earth that contains all the liquid, frozen, and gasous water
25
If you found a fossil of a freshwater fish in a desert, what could you conclude?
The desert used to be a giant forest.
A river once flowed through the desert.
Temperatures in the desert used to be much cooler.
An ocean once covered the desert.
26
Tropical plant fossils have been found in Antarctica. This indicates that _____.
Antarctica was once a hot, dry desert.
Humans must have left the plants there.
Antarctica was once covered by a large, chain of mountains.
The climate of Antarctica was once warmer.
27
Which of the following is NOT a piece of evidence Wegener used to make his theory of Continental Drift?
The contienents fit together like giant puzzle pieces.
The same animals alive today are found in both Africa and South America.
The glaicial grooves lines up where the contients fit together.
Fossils of ancient plants lined up between the continents.
28
What are resources made from prehistoric plants and animals?
the wind
electricity
the sun
fossil fuels
29
Fossils provide evidence of...
All of these
how life has changed over time
clues of that past enviroments were like
how the earths surface has changed
30
What is the name of the superconitnent discovered my Alfred Wegener?
Unimorcia
Supercontinent
Megaland
Pangea
31
A fossil of an ocean fish was found in a rock, on top of a mountain. This probably means that _____.
Fish were the first creatures to appear on Earth.
Fish once lived on top of mountains.
The mountain rose from the ocean, years after the fish died.
The temperature on the mountaintop was once warmer.

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