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- 1. Multiple Choice
In a transform plate boundary, the ...
plates are the same age
convergent plate is older, oceanic plate is younger
convergent plate is younger, divergent plate is older
closer the plates are the younger they are
- 2. Multiple Choice
The surface of the earth, otherwise known as the ______, is broken into seven major pieces and sits atop a liquid layer called the _______
lithosphere, asthenosphere
astenosphere, mantle
crust, litosphere
asthenosphere, lithosphere
- 3. Multiple ChoiceThe San Andrea's Fault in California is which type of boundary?ConvergentDivergentSubductive ZoneTransform
- 4. Multiple ChoiceThis rock was formed by smaller pieces of rock that settled at the bottom of a lake millions of years ago. What type of rock is this?SedimentaryIgneousMetamorphic
- 5. Multiple ChoiceThe layer of soil which the topsoil is found.Horizon AHorizon BHorizon CHorizon D or R
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhich horizon is made up of partially weathered rocks?Horizon AHorizon BHorizon CHorizon D or R
- 7. Multiple ChoiceIn which horizon is most of the HUMUS?Horizon AHorizon BHorizon CHorizon D or R
- 8. Multiple Choice
As you travel from the crust to the inner core, how would temperature and density of the material change?
The would all increase
The would all decrease.
They would stay the same.
Temperature would decrease, but pressure and density would increase.
- 9. Multiple Choice
When did the super continent Pangaea exist?
20 million years ago
100 million years ago
175 million years ago
250 million years ago
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe most common gas in the atmosphere (78%).NitrogenOxygenCarbon DioxideTrace gases
- 11. Multiple ChoiceMost of Earth's freshwater is ___________under groundas a liquid on the surfacefrozenin Olympic swimming pools
- 12. Multiple ChoiceMost of the freshwater around the world is used for the following purpose.industryresidentialagriculturerecreation
- 13. Multiple Choice
Where the naturally occuring good ozone layer is located
troposphere
mesosphere
stratosphere
thermosphere
- 14. Multiple ChoiceIn which layer do all the pressure, wind, and precipitation changes occur?Outer spacestratospheretropospheremesosphere
- 15. Multiple ChoiceThe Coriolis effect is a result of the Earth'sgravitationtemperaturerotationcurvature
- 16. Multiple ChoiceThe thin layer of gases surrounding Earthatmospherebiospherehydrospherelithosphere
- 17. Multiple ChoiceAll of the water on and near Earth's surfacehydrosphereatmospherebiospherelithosphere
- 18. Multiple ChoiceSea surface temperature changes great than .5oC for greater than 5 months across the centeral ropical Pacific OCean are known asthe arctic effectthe get streama typhoonEl Nino-Southern Oscillation
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