Science Final Study Guide

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Final study guide for 9th grade earth and space science
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How are atoms structured?
Antworten
  • Electrons and neutrons are located in the nucleus, protons surround nucleus
  • Molecules and neutrons are located in the nucleus, electrons surround nucleus
  • Protons and neutrons are located in the nucleus, electrons surround nucleus
  • Protons and electrons are located in the nucleus, neutrons surround nucleus

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How do we determine the mass and number of an atom?
Antworten
  • Mass is equal to the number of neutrons in the nucleus, and the number is the sum of protons and electrons.
  • Mass is the sum of protons and neutrons, and the number is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus.
  • Mass is the sum of electrons and neutrons, and the number is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus.
  • Mass is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus, and the number is the sum of neutrons and electrons.

Frage 3

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An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 4

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What is an isotope?
Antworten
  • Two or more forms of the same element that contain equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei
  • An element with more protons than neutron
  • A pair of valence electrons in an element
  • A group of elements that have the same amount of protons but different numbers of neutrons

Frage 5

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What are the different states of matter?
Antworten
  • Gas
  • Liquid
  • Vapor
  • Plasma
  • Condensation
  • Solid
  • Volatile

Frage 6

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A solid can take on shapes of its container.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 7

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A liquid flows easily and is not easily compressible.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 8

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Gases have large spaces between particles and move freely.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 9

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What is Plasma?
Antworten
  • Heated to temperatures of 5,000 degrees C
  • Least commonly found state of matter
  • Another word for a gas
  • Collisions knock atoms together that the electrons are knocked away from the atoms
  • Found in Stars, Sun, Lightning, Light Bulbs, and neon signs

Frage 10

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Mixtures cannot be separated easily.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 11

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What are compounds?
Antworten
  • Composed of atoms of two or more different elements that are chemically combined
  • Composed of multiple atoms of one element that are chemically combined
  • Composed of different elements that are physically combined
  • Composed of multiple atoms of one element that are physically combined

Frage 12

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What are some special features in identifying a mineral?
Antworten
  • inorganic
  • solution
  • solid with a specific chemical composition
  • a definite crystalline structure
  • synthetically produced

Frage 13

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Field Tests to identify a mineral sample.
Antworten
  • Color
  • Lust
  • Texture
  • Streak
  • Weight
  • Size
  • Hardness
  • Cleavage & Fracture
  • Ores
  • Gems

Frage 14

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What should be on the y-axis of graphs?
Antworten
  • Distance
  • Time

Frage 15

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What should be on the x-axis?
Antworten
  • Distance
  • Time

Frage 16

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What are the causes for a sedimentary rock to turn into a metamorphic rock?
Antworten
  • Changed by heat, pressure, and/or chemical action
  • Weathering & Erosion
  • melting and Solidification

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How do sedimentary Rocks form?
Antworten
  • Weathering and Erosion
  • Compaction and Cementation
  • transportation and Deposition
  • Heat and Pressure

Frage 18

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In what Type of rock can a fossil be found?
Antworten
  • Sedimentary
  • Metamorphic
  • Igneous

Frage 19

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Latitude lines show north & South and include the Equator.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 20

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Longitude lines show east & west and the Prime Meridian is 0 degrees.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 21

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How many time zones are there?
Antworten
  • 24
  • 6
  • 12
  • 36

Frage 22

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What is the equator?
Antworten
  • 0 degrees latitude
  • 0 degrees longitude
  • 180 degrees longitude
  • 90 degrees latitude

Frage 23

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Each Longitude line is 15 degrees, how much time is in between?
Antworten
  • one hour
  • two hours
  • one day
  • 12 hours

Frage 24

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The South Pole is at 90 degrees north.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 25

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What type of river is the oldest?
Antworten
  • Meandering
  • Braided
  • Anabranching

Frage 26

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What is the time zone difference between Boston and Denver?
Antworten
  • 2 hours
  • 4 hours
  • 1 hour
  • They are in the same time zone

Frage 27

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What is the energy released during an earthquake?
Antworten
  • magnitude
  • intensity
  • seismic waves
  • aftershock

Frage 28

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Where are you safest during an earthquake?
Antworten
  • Under a sturdy table or in a door frame
  • Under a sturdy table or move quickly
  • In a door frame or move quickly

Frage 29

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The quiet volcano is the shield volcano and it is round with sloping sides
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 30

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Which type of volcano is the most explosive?
Antworten
  • Composite
  • Shield
  • Cinder Cone

Frage 31

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What causes volcanoes to explode?
Antworten
  • Pressure of gases
  • Shifting of plates

Frage 32

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Where is the Ring of Fire located?
Antworten
  • Outside of the Pacific Ocean
  • Outside of the Atlantic Ocean
  • Outside of the Indian Ocean
  • Outside of the Arctic Ocean
  • Only In Asia
  • Only In America
  • Only In Europe
  • Only In Africa

Frage 33

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In what time period is the early man formed?
Antworten
  • Cenozoic
  • Paleozoic
  • Mesozoic
  • Precambrian

Frage 34

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What phase of the moon comes after the New Moon
Antworten
  • Waxing Crescent
  • Waning Crescent
  • Waxing Quarter
  • Waning Quarter

Frage 35

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What is a wave's length?
Antworten
  • From crest to crest
  • From trough to crest
  • From trough to trough

Frage 36

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Which has the shortest wave length?
Antworten
  • gamma ray
  • UV rays
  • Radio
  • Micro wave
  • Infrared
  • Visible
  • X-Ray

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Which has the longest wave length?
Antworten
  • Radio
  • Microwave
  • Infrared
  • Visible
  • ultraviolet
  • X-ray
  • Gamma ray

Frage 38

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Freshwater is denser than ocean water.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 39

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What type of clouds create thunderstorms?
Antworten
  • cumulonimbus
  • stratus
  • cumulus
  • cirrus
  • stratocumulus

Frage 40

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In what type of fault does the hanging wall slide down and the foot wall go up?
Antworten
  • normal
  • reverse
  • strike-slip

Frage 41

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What is the epicenter?
Antworten
  • the above ground origin of the earhtquake
  • the under ground origin of the earhtquake
  • a break in Earth's crust

Frage 42

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What is the focus of an earthquake?
Antworten
  • the under ground origin of an earthquake
  • the above ground origin of an earthquake
  • a break in Earth's crust

Frage 43

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Which type of seismic wave is the fastest?
Antworten
  • Primary waves
  • Secondary Waves
  • Surface waves

Frage 44

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What are the three types of seismic waves?
Antworten
  • primary
  • secondary
  • surface
  • normal
  • reverse
  • strikeslip
  • transform
  • divergent
  • convergent

Frage 45

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What are the three types of rivers listed from oldest to youngest?
Antworten
  • straight, braided, meandering
  • meandering, braided, straight
  • braided, straight, meandering
  • braided, meandering, straight

Frage 46

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A contour line is a line on a map joining points of equal height above or below sea level
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 47

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How do you know if a rock is fluorescent?
Antworten
  • shining a UV light on it
  • putting it in the dark
  • it had bright colors

Frage 48

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Scratching rocks together determines the hardness
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 49

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There is 180 degrees between each pole and the equator.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 50

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In what hemisphere does the Coriolis effect turn clockwise?
Antworten
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Southern Hemisphere
  • Western Hemisphere
  • Eastern Hemisphere

Frage 51

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In what hemisphere does the Coriolis effect turn counterclockwise?
Antworten
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Southern Hemisphere
  • Eastern Hemisphere
  • Western Hemisphere

Frage 52

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What is a space rock called when it enters Earth's atmosphere?
Antworten
  • meteor
  • asteroid
  • comet
  • meteorite

Frage 53

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What type of thunderstorm is created by an extreme change in temperature over land vs water?
Antworten
  • seabreeze thunderstorm
  • single cell
  • supercell
  • multicell

Frage 54

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In which direction does weather often move in the United States?
Antworten
  • North to south
  • South to north
  • East to west
  • West to east

Frage 55

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What occurs when oceanic crust and continental crust collide and the oceanic crust goes under? Pick three.
Antworten
  • earthquakes
  • volcano
  • subduction zone
  • mountains
  • island

Frage 56

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Which zone is below the water table?
Antworten
  • Zone of saturation
  • Zone of aeration

Frage 57

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Which zone is above the water table?
Antworten
  • Zone of saturation
  • Zone of aeration

Frage 58

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What is caused by water expanding when it freezes?
Antworten
  • ice wedging
  • cross-cutting
  • glaciers

Frage 59

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A map legend/key explains what the symbols on the map represent.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 60

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What process breaks down rocks?
Antworten
  • erosion
  • weathering
  • mass movement

Frage 61

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What process moves the broken down material on Earth's surface?
Antworten
  • weathering
  • erosion
  • mass movement

Frage 62

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What is the most permeable layer through which water flows easily?
Antworten
  • aquifer
  • well
  • bedrock
  • humus

Frage 63

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If the wind is blowing from the west, which side of the sand dune will be the steepest?
Antworten
  • north
  • south
  • east
  • west

Frage 64

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Which is an example of a mixture?
Antworten
  • soup
  • salt
  • sugar
  • water

Frage 65

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Which of the following is a compound?
Antworten
  • water
  • table salt
  • sucrose
  • soil
  • air
  • iron
  • oxygen

Frage 66

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What are the four agents of erosion?
Antworten
  • wind
  • water
  • gravity
  • glaciers
  • sun
  • soil
  • sand

Frage 67

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What causes erosion and weathering to break down rocks?
Antworten
  • mechanical(physical) weathering
  • chemical weathering

Frage 68

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Soil's A Horizon includes a concentration of organic matter and humus and is dark in color.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 69

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Soil's B Horizon is enriched with clay and minerals, is under A horizon, is less-developed and hardpan.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 70

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What are some characteristics of the C horizon?
Antworten
  • under B horizon
  • above B horizon
  • above solid bedrock
  • below solid bedrock
  • contains weathered plant material
  • contains clay and minerals

Frage 71

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How do sand dunes form?
Antworten
  • from the wind blowing sand
  • sand being washed onto the beach by waves

Frage 72

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Carrying capacity explains that the faster the flowing wate,r the more the load can take
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 73

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What is the load of a stream?
Antworten
  • all materials the water carries
  • the volume of the water
  • the velocity of the water in the stream
  • everything in a stream

Frage 74

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What is a water table?
Antworten
  • upper boundary of the zone of saturation
  • ground water flow in permeable layer
  • area surrounding a pumping cell and supplies groundwater to recharge the cell

Frage 75

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What is the zone of contribution?
Antworten
  • upper boundary of the zone of saturation
  • ground water flow in permeable layer
  • area surrounding a pumping cell and supplies groundwater to recharge the cell

Frage 76

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What does the Richter Scale measure?
Antworten
  • magnitude
  • intensity
  • vibrations
  • movement

Frage 77

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What does the Mercalli Scale measure?
Antworten
  • magnitude
  • intensity
  • vibrations
  • movement

Frage 78

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Where do most volcanos occur?
Antworten
  • plate boundaries
  • on land
  • in the ocean
  • the middle of plates

Frage 79

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Extrusive igneous rocks reach the surface through volcanos and cool quickly.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 80

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Intrusive igneous rocks are glassy and have small crystals like obsidian.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 81

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What is a hot spot?
Antworten
  • unusually hot region's of Earth's mantle where high-temperature plumes of mantle material rise toward the surface
  • where two plates meet and collide and form a volcano
  • Where an active volcano is located
  • concentrated magma in the mantle

Frage 82

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How were the Hawaiian Islands formed?
Antworten
  • from a hot spot
  • plate boundary
  • convection currents

Frage 83

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Which of the following are part of a wave?
Antworten
  • fetch
  • trough
  • crest
  • wave length
  • wave height
  • breaking point
  • backwash
  • swash

Frage 84

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What happens at the Mid-Ocean Ridge and Earth's crust?
Antworten
  • seafloor spreading
  • subduction
  • volcanos
  • earthquakes

Frage 85

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What is a subduction zone?
Antworten
  • Where denser crust sinks back into the asthenosphere
  • Where denser crust sinks back into the lithosphere
  • Where lighter crust sinks back into the asthenosphere
  • Where lighter crust sinks back into the lithosphere

Frage 86

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There is no difference between oceanic and continental crust.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 87

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What are the different types of plate boundaries?
Antworten
  • transform
  • convergent
  • divergent
  • normal
  • reverse
  • fault
  • line

Frage 88

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When plates collide, the denser plate sinks back into the asthenosphere, or if with continents, folded mountains form.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 89

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How is geologic time broken down?
Antworten
  • era
  • eon
  • period
  • epoch
  • time
  • century
  • decade

Frage 90

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Super positioning says that the oldest rock layer is on the bottom, and they get older going up.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 91

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What is a rock layer that is out of place and a disruption to the order?
Antworten
  • unconformity
  • nonconformity
  • index fossil
  • key bed
  • disconformity

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What is uniformitarianism?
Antworten
  • The processes and natural laws that occur on Earth now, have always been at work on the Earth
  • The processes and natural laws that occur on Earth now, have not always been at work on the Earth
  • That every rock layer at the same depth is the same throughout the Earth
  • That every rock layer at the same depth is not the same throughout the Earth

Frage 93

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Tides on Earth are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 94

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What is the amount of salt in minerals in ocean water?
Antworten
  • salinity
  • saltiness
  • density
  • sodium levels

Frage 95

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What is an ocean current?
Antworten
  • the large movement of a wave in one direction
  • the rising and falling of sea level

Frage 96

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What happens in a convection current?
Antworten
  • warm air rises, and cold air sinks
  • warm air sinks, and cold air rises

Frage 97

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How long is a solar year in days? (approximately)
Antworten
  • 365
  • 24
  • 12
  • 248
  • 60

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What type of lava does a shield volcano eject?
Antworten
  • rhyolitic
  • basaltic

Frage 99

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What type of lava does a composite volcano eject?
Antworten
  • rhyolitic
  • basaltic

Frage 100

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What type of lava does a cinder volcano elect?
Antworten
  • rhyolitic
  • basaltic

Frage 101

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What theory is accepted for the origin of our universe?
Antworten
  • The Big Bang theory
  • Steady State
  • Creation theory
  • Oscillating universe
  • Eternal inflation

Frage 102

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A solstice is when the sun reaches the highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, winter and summer solstice are the shortest and longest days.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 103

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The day when daytime and night are of approximately equal duration is an equinox.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 104

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How can we tell how old a fossil is?
Antworten
  • relative dating
  • radioactive dating
  • comparative dating
  • location dating

Frage 105

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What elements are used for radioactive dating?
Antworten
  • Uranium-238
  • Carbon-14
  • Oxygen-10
  • Hydrogen-2

Frage 106

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Mendeleev is the father of geology
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 107

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How important are certain organisms that lived on Earth but no longer live here to geologic time?
Antworten
  • They can be found in fossils in rock layers and show how old the rock layer is.
  • They have no importance.
  • They are not shown in old rock layers because they no longer exist.

Frage 108

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Why is tyrannosaurus rex an important fossil to find? Choose the most important
Antworten
  • It is an index fossil to show how old the rock layer is
  • They help us learn about the time of dinosaurs
  • There is no importance

Frage 109

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What is cross-cutting of rock formations that Hutton discovered?
Antworten
  • When one type of rock cuts through other rocks, it had to form after the rocks that it cuts.
  • When one type of rock cuts through other rocks, it had to form before the rocks that it cuts.

Frage 110

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Rock layering is important in understanding the passing of time in Earth and measuring it, because different layers contain different fossils and types of soil.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 111

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How does density affect the movement of warm and cold ocean water?
Antworten
  • Warm water rises to the surface and then cold water sinks to the bottom, when heated up this deep water rises and the warm water cools and sinks.
  • Cold water rises to the surface and then warm water sinks to the bottom, when cooled this deep water rises and the cold water warms and sinks.
  • Warm and cool water have the same density and there is no movement between

Frage 112

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Sparks of electricity from water droplets blowing apart generates lightning in a thunderstorm.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 113

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What type of wind moves from California towards New York?
Antworten
  • prevailing westerlies
  • prevailing easterlies

Frage 114

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How does a rain drop form?
Antworten
  • water droplets collide and become too heavy for the cloud to hold
  • droplets of water group together

Frage 115

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What process changes something from a liquid to a gas?
Antworten
  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • Conduction
  • Convection
  • sublimation

Frage 116

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What process changes something from a gas to a liquid?
Antworten
  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • conduction
  • convection
  • sublimation

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What process transfers energy through colliding materials?
Antworten
  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • conduction
  • convection
  • sublimation

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What process transfers energy through the flow of a heated substance?
Antworten
  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • conduction
  • convection
  • sublimation

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What process changes something from a solid to a gas?
Antworten
  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • conduction
  • convection
  • sublimation

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A cold front includes clouds and rain.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

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A warm front causes thunderstorms.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 122

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What are the main stages of the Star Cycle?
Antworten
  • nebula
  • protostar
  • star
  • red giant
  • white dwarf
  • gas giants
  • terrestrial
  • planetary nebula

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Spring tide occurs during a full moon and it has the highest high tide and the lowest low tides.
Antworten
  • True
  • False
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