To find the mass of a rock you should use a ________.
A. Graduated cylinder
B. Ruler
C. Balance
D. Thermal energy
What is a balance?
100
The inner core is made up of _______.
What is solid nickel and iron?
100
If you look at the shape of the Earth's continents, Africa and South America look like the pieces of a puzzle that could snap together. This supports the theory that all of the continents were once one big continent called ________.
What is Pangea?
200
True or False. Temperature drops and pressure increases as you go deeper in the ocean.
What is true?
200
Water can weather rock by _________.
A. eroding soil
B. freezing and melting
What is freezing and melting?
200
When molten rock or magma cools below the Earth's surface or cools after erupting from a volcano as lava, this type of rock is formed.
What is igneous rock?
200
The Earth's outer layer is a thin crust made mostly of _______.
What is hard rock?
200
What are the two types of plates on Earth?
What is Oceanic plates and Continental plates?
300
________ Zone helps the plankton to produce food. Therefore many animals live in this area.
What is Sunlit Zone?
300
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is deposition?
300
Rocks formed from other types of rocks by intense heat and pressure deep within the Earth are called
What is metamorphic rock?
300
The solid layer of the Earth with intense pressure.
What is the inner core?
300
_______ boundary is where two plates are moving in opposite directions as in a mid-ocean ridge.
What is a divergent boundary?
400
Ocean currents are caused by ______, ______, and ______.
What is wind, temperature, and salinity?
400
The difference between weathering and erosion is:
a. weathering causes a quick change in landforms and erosion causes a slow change in landforms.
b. weathering breaks rocks into sediments and erosion moves sediment from one place to another.
What is weathering breaks rocks into sediments and erosion moves sediment from one place to another?
400
Which type of rock contains fossils?
A. Coal
B. Pumice
C. Limestone
D. Quartz
What is limestone?
400
The layer of the Earth made up of rocks, soil, and water.
What is the crust?
400
________ boundaries push together. Sometimes one plate starts to go on top of another plate.
What is convergent?
500
The three effects on ocean environments.
What is depth, temperature, and salinity?
500
All of the following are forces that change landforms EXCEPT: A. wind
B. moving water
C. glaciers
D. physical features
What is physical features?
500
The Earth's surface is constantly changing due to heat and pressure within the Earth and weathering and erosion at the surface. These processes constantly change rock from one type to another in a cycle called:
What is the rock cycle?
500
Earth's oceans, lakes, rivers, streams, and ice make up the _________.
What is the hydrosphere?
500
Most transform boundaries are found in the ocean. They slide past each creating ____________.