Layers of the Earth
Plate Tectonics
Minerals and Rocks
Weathering and Erosion
Soil
100
What is the thinnest and coolest layer of Earth?
A. outer core
B. mantle
C. inner core
D. crust
D. Crust
100
What causes the tectonic plates to move?
A. radiation
B. convection currents
C. conduction
B. convection currents
100
What is the repeating pattern of the structure of a mineral?
A. hardness
B. streak
C. crystal
D. skeleton
C. Crystal
100
What deposition environment is found at the mouth of rivers?
A. beach
B. delta
C. meanders
D. flood plain
B. delta
100
Which type of soil is gritty and water passes through quickly?
A. clay
B. sand
C. loam
D. silt
B. sand
200
What is the layer that is the thickest?
A. inner core
B. mantle
C. outer core
D. crust
B. Mantle
200
What process makes new oceanic crust?
A. subduction
B. earthquake
C. seafloor spreading
D. hurricane
C. seafloor spreading
200
What is the true color a mineral determined by?
A. hardness
B. the visible color
C. the streak
D. cleavage
C. the streak
200
When metals are exposed to oxygen and water, oxidation occurs. What type of weathering is oxidation?
A. physical weathering
B. chemical weathering
B. chemical weathering
200
This soil has medium sized particles, holds moisture, and is the best for growing crops.
A. clay
B. sand
C. loam
D. silt
C. loam
300
Which layer is liquid iron and nickel that produces the magnetic field around the Earth?
A. crust
B. inner core
C. outer core
D. mantle
C. outer core
300
Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
A. Harry Hess
B. Alfred Wegener
C. Karl Marx
D. Albert Einstein
B. Alfred Wegener
300
Which type of rock is made from the cooling and solidifying of magma or lava?
A. metamorphic rock
B. sedimentary rock
C. clastic rock
D. igneous rock
D. igneous rock
300
Which term describes the process when chemicals dissolve and break up rock to form sedimentary rock?
A. lithification
B. chemical weathering
C. physical weathering
D. deposition
B. chemical weathering
300
Soil conservation is very important. Which method is plowing to the curve of the land?
A. crop rotation
B. contour plowing
C. terracing
D. no-till-farming
B. contour plowing
400
Which layer of the crust is made mainly of granite?
A. continental crust
B. oceanic crust
A. continental crust
400
The Andes, Appalachian, and Himalayan Mountains ALL have something in common. They formed due to the
A. action of divergent plate boundaries.
B. action at transform plate boundaries.
C. action of convergent plate boundaries
C. action of convergent plate boundaries
400
Limestone rock can go through heat and pressure to become marble rock. What type of rock is marble?
A. igneous rock
B. sedimentary rock
C. metamorphic rock
C. metamorphic rock
400
Destructive waves erode the coastline in a number of ways. Identify the term that describes when bits of rock and sand in waves grind down cliff surfaces like sandpaper.
A. Abrasion
B. exfoliation
C. oxidation
D. acid rain
A. abrasion
400
Carlos has some soil that has too much sand mixed in for growing plants. What should he add to improve the soil for growing plants?
A. twigs
B. pebbles
C. clay
D. bugs
C. clay
500
What makes up the lithosphere?
A. outer core and inner core
B. crust and the upper mantle
C. the upper and middle mantle
D. mantle and the outer core
B. crust and the upper mantle
500
What process takes away the oceanic crust back to the mantle at the trenches?
A. seafloor spreading
B. earthquakes
C. subduction
D. drift valleys
C. subduction
500
Which type of rock may contain fossils?
A. sedimentary rock
B. igneous rock
C. metamorphic rock
A. sedimentary rock
500
What most likely caused the rock to break apart?
A. abrasion
B. water freezing in cracks
C. heat
D. earthquake
B. water freezing in cracks
500
A farmer grows corn on his farm year after year, without a break. What will MOST likely happen on this farm?
A. The soil will slowly be washed away.
B.The farmer will not need fertilizer to grow corn.
C. The soil will have no nutrients to grow the corn.
C. The soil will have no nutrients to grow the corn.