🪨 Rock-Solid Science
What is geology?
A. The study of living things
B. The study of Earth, what it is made of, and how it changes
C. The study of weather
B. The study of Earth, what it is made of, and how it changes
What is the thin, rocky outer layer of Earth called?
A. Mantle
B. Crust
C. Core
B. Crust
What type of rock forms from cooled lava or magma?
A. Sedimentary
B. Metamorphic
C. Igneous
C. Igneous
What does deposit mean?
A. Take away
B. Leave behind
C. Break apart
B. Leave behind
The siren blared ____ as it passed.
A. Silently
B. Dully
C. Loudly
C. Loudly
Which two ways can tectonic plates move?
A. Slide past each other and pull apart
B. Melt and freeze
C. Spin and roll
A. Slide past each other and pull apart
Which Earth layer is made of hot, liquid metal?
A. Inner core
B. Mantle
C. Outer core
C. Outer core
Which rock forms from bits of material pressed together over time?
A. Igneous
B. Sedimentary
C. Metamorphic
B. Sedimentary
What does exert mean?
A. To rest
B. To use effort or energy
C. To observe
B. To use effort or energy
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
A. Austin Texas
B. Austin, Texas
C. Austin; Texas
B. Austin, Texas
What causes volcanoes to form at plate boundaries?
A. Rainwater cooling lava
B. Pressure and heat pushing magma upward
C. Wind erosion
B. Pressure and heat pushing magma upward
Which layer is solid metal and extremely hot?
A. Inner core
B. Crust
C. Mantle
A. Inner core
Which rock changes because of heat and pressure?
A. Igneous
B. Sedimentary
C. Metamorphic
C. Metamorphic
What does fault mean in geology?
A. A mistake
B. A crack in Earth’s crust
C. A mountain
B. A crack in Earth’s crust
Which adjective order is correct?
A. Wooden, brown, small chair
B. Small, brown, wooden chair
C. Brown, small, wooden chair
B. Small, brown, wooden chair
What happens when one tectonic plate slides under another?
A. Seafloor spreading
B. An ocean trench forms
C. A volcano goes extinct
B. An ocean trench forms
Which layer slowly moves and helps cause plate movement?
A. Crust
B. Mantle
C. Outer core
B. Mantle
What do weathering and erosion do to rocks?
A. Melt them
B. Break and move them
C. Turn them into magma
B. Break and move them
What does firsthand mean?
A. Heard from someone else
B. Experienced personally
C. Written in a book
B. Experienced personally
Which word best fits: The water ___ everywhere when the pipe broke.
A. Interrupted
B. Disrupted
C. Erupted
C. Erupted
Which two events can be caused by moving tectonic plates?
Earthquakes and tsunamis
Which Earth layer moves because of plate tectonics?
The crust
What helped form the Grand Canyon over millions of years?
Weathering and erosion by the Colorado River
What is a subduction zone?
A. Where plates pull apart
B. Where one plate slides beneath another
C. Where magma cools
B. Where one plate slides beneath another
Why does an author use words like then and still?
A. To describe characters
B. To show sequence
C. To persuade
B. To show sequence