Earth Science Unit Review

Question 1

Which layer of the Earth is part of the lithosphere?

Accepted Answer

crust, mantle

Question 2

What are large, loose deposits of sand?

Accepted Answer

sand dunes

Question 3

What type of rock is melted, cools, and then hardens?

Accepted Answer

igneous

Question 4

What is the top of the volcano called?

Accepted Answer

crater

Question 5

Which property is NOT used to identify minerals?

Accepted Answer

beauty

Question 6

What type of disaster is described: waves caused by underwater earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

Tsunami

Question 7

Which property is NOT used to identify minerals?

Accepted Answer

crumble

Question 8

What is the slow process of breaking rocks into sediment?

Accepted Answer

weathering

Question 9

What is the outermost layer of the Earth?

Accepted Answer

crust

Question 10

What instrument is used to measure an earthquake?

Accepted Answer

seismograph

Question 11

What are the parts of the Earth that move, glide, and crash into each other?

Accepted Answer

plates

Question 12

What type of plates collide or move into each other?

Accepted Answer

convergent

Question 13

What area makes up the largest "circle" of volcanoes?

Accepted Answer

Ring of Fire

Question 14

What type of plates slide past each other, often causing earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

transform

Question 15

What type of plates spread or move apart from each other?

Accepted Answer

divergent

Question 16

What is the hardest mineral according to the Mohs scale?

Accepted Answer

diamond

Question 17

Which word is defined by: movement of materials away from one place?

Accepted Answer

erosion

Question 18

What is the name of the one, large, super continent that was theorized 300 million years ago?

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

Question 19

Which scale is used to measure the hardness of minerals?

Accepted Answer

Mohs scale

Question 20

What is the tube leading to the top of a volcano called?

Accepted Answer

vent

Question 21

What type of weathering is the breaking of rock due to gravity, ice, and other forces?

Accepted Answer

mechanical

Question 22

Which science word is defined by: placing materials in a new place?

Accepted Answer

deposition

Question 23

What type of rock is squeezed and heated?

Accepted Answer

metamorphic

Question 24

What type of rock is made up of many layers?

Accepted Answer

sedimentary

Question 25

Which layer of the Earth is the hottest?

Accepted Answer

inner core

Question 26

What type of weathering happens when chemicals are used to change materials in rock?

Accepted Answer

chemical

Earth Science Unit Review

Questions 26

Earth Science Unit Review

Questions 26