2019 Midterm exam review

Question 1

In what step do you gather information?

Accepted Answer

research

Question 2

Another name for a transform boundary is a fault.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

What did Richard Byrd build to survive the cold winter at the South Pole?

Accepted Answer

Little America

Question 4

When you spill a chemical, break a beaker, or notice a fire, what should you do?

Accepted Answer

tell your teacher

Question 5

What is the main purpose of the Scientific Method?

Accepted Answer

to explain why things happen the way they do

Question 6

What do you call a natural shape that occurs on the surface of the Earth?

Accepted Answer

landform

Question 7

Who came up with the theory of continental drift?

Accepted Answer

Alfred Wegener

Question 8

What layer of the Earth will you find convection currents?

Accepted Answer

mantle

Question 9

How many issues per year are printed for the National Geographic Magazine?

Accepted Answer

12

Question 10

What is the name given to the single, giant landmass from which all continents broke off from?

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

Question 11

Fashion is more important than safety in a lab.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

A chemical explosion to the face is the most common injury in a lab.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

What is the most famous fault found in California?

Accepted Answer

the San Andreas fault

Question 14

What is the Scientific Method?

Accepted Answer

a guide to solving problems

Question 15

What landform typically develops over a hot spot?

Accepted Answer

an island

Question 16

What type of plate boundary do two plates collide or come together?

Accepted Answer

convergent boundary

Question 17

Which of the following should NOT be worn in a lab?

Accepted Answer

shorts

Question 18

What did George Shiras use to get the animals to move so he could get an action shot?

Accepted Answer

a blank shot gun

Question 19

Which one is NOT one of the Earth's layers?

Accepted Answer

ocean

Question 20

Most divergent boundaries are found on the ocean floor.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

Continental drift and seafloor spreading combined to form what new theory?

Accepted Answer

The Theory of Plate Tectonics

Question 22

What does hypothesis mean?

Accepted Answer

educated guess

Question 23

What type of plate boundary do two plates slide next to each other?

Accepted Answer

transform boundary

Question 24

In order to make an educated guess (hypothesis) what must you do first?

Accepted Answer

your research

Question 25

When was National Geographic first started?

Accepted Answer

1888

Question 26

You can't make an educated guess before....

Accepted Answer

you do your research

Question 27

The oldest rocks on Earth are found on oceanic crust.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

What step comes after hypothesis?

Accepted Answer

experiment

Question 29

What type of landform will you find when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?

Accepted Answer

a volcanic mountain range

Question 30

What photographer took the first nighttime picture using a flash?

Accepted Answer

George Shiras

Question 31

Who financed the magazine to get it started?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 32

Who was the first employee of National Geographic?

Accepted Answer

Gilbert Grosvenor

Question 33

Name the two types of crust found on Earth.

Accepted Answer

continental and oceanic crust

Question 34

Alfred Wegener enjoyed much success and praise throughout his lifetime?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 35

A hot spot occurs at a plate boundary.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 36

At what point do you make an observation?

Accepted Answer

right after you conduct your experiment

Question 37

The further you get away from a rift, the older the crust is.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

When you are finished with your laboratory experiment, you should.....

Accepted Answer

clean up & leave the room like you found it

Question 39

Who discovered a nearly complete skeleton of early man in 1984?

Accepted Answer

Louis and Mary Leaky

Question 40

What step in the Scientific Method allows you to test your hypothesis?

Accepted Answer

your experiment

Question 41

What is the dividing line between two tectonic plates?

Accepted Answer

a plate boundary

Question 42

Convection currents are caused by changes in....

Accepted Answer

temperature

Question 43

What major discovery happened in Egypt in 1922?

Accepted Answer

King Tut's tomb

Question 44

What is the definition of "observation"?

Accepted Answer

record data

Question 45

Tectonic plates and the continents which rest of them are part of the crust of the Earth.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 46

Where will you find a mid-ocean ridge?

Accepted Answer

at a divergent boundary

Question 47

Approximately much of the earth is covered by water?

Accepted Answer

70%

Question 48

What's the first step in the Scientific Method?

Accepted Answer

Problem

Question 49

What causes the tectonic plates to move?

Accepted Answer

convection currents

Question 50

When an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate, which plate will subduct?

Accepted Answer

the oceanic plate

Question 51

Continental crust is more dense than oceanic crust.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 52

What type of plate boundary do two plates pull away from each other?

Accepted Answer

divergent boundary

Question 53

When two continental plates collide that are the same density, which landform will most likely develop?

Accepted Answer

a continental mountain range

Question 54

At a transform boundary, you will often have earthquakes.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 55

Before beginning any lab, what must you do first?

Accepted Answer

read the instructions

Question 56

Who discovered Machu Picchu?

Accepted Answer

Hiram Bingham

Question 57

Who came up with the theory of seafloor spreading?

Accepted Answer

Harry Hess

Question 58

The NFPA diamond tells you how dangerous a substance is.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 59

Where is Machu Picchu located?

Accepted Answer

In Peru

Question 60

When you need to smell a substance, pick up the container and sniff the opening directly.

Accepted Answer

False

2019 Midterm exam review

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2019 Midterm exam review

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