Unit 3 TEST Practice

Plate Tectonic

100

Name the four plate boundaries

Divergent

Convergent

Transform

Plate boundary zones

200

Name the deepest trench in the world and how deep is it?

Mariana Trench; 11,000 meters deep

300

The location where sinking of a plate occurs is called a _________________________ zone.

Subduction

400

BONUS x2 Points

What is the San Andreas Fault and how long is it?

The zone between two plates sliding horizontally past one another is called a transform-fault boundary is about 1,300 km long and in places tens of kilometers wide, slices through two thirds of the length of California

500

What is the Ring of Fire and where is it located

A horseshoe-shaped zone of intense seismic and volcanic activity that encircles the Pacific ocean.

Soil

100

3 ways soil is defined

Utilitarian

Ecological

Pedologic

200

Name three threats to soil

Erosion, contamination, sealing, compaction, loss of biodiversity, salinization, floods and landslides

300

What type of soil is in A Horizon layer

Top soil

400

In what Horizon is the sub soil?

B Horizon

500

R Horizon contains what type of soil?

Rock

Air and Water

100

Force of air pressing down on Earth is called

Air pressure

200

The 2 most abundant gases found throughout all the layers are ____________________ and ___________________

Oxygen and nitrogen

300

The __________________ consists of layers of gases that surrounds the Earth.

atmosphere

400

BONUS x2 Points

In what atmospheric layer do you live in?

Troposphere

500

List the 5 atmospheric layers in order

5. Exosphere

4. Thermosphere

3. Mesosphere

2. Stratosphere

1. Troposphere

Seasons

100

Seasons are caused by

the tilt of the Earth's axis as it moves around the sun

200

What is the name for the longest day of the year (and the beginning of summer)?

Summer solstice

300

The Earth rotates on its own axis every ________ hours

24

400

The Earth revolves around the sun once every ______ days

365

500

Countries close to the equator has how many seasons?

2; wet or dry

Climate

100

Weather describes

Short-term atmospheric conditions and the spatial distribution if temperature, humidity, windspeed, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, sunshine,and clouds

200

Name 1 human cause of climate change

Fossil fuel, land use changes, agriculture, cement production, atmospheric aerosols. 

300

Earth is a system of interacting ____________

"spheres"

400

BONUS x2 Points

What is climate change referring to?

altered patterns of weather over decades – warming, cooling, rainfall, snow, storm tracks, etc.

500

Name the 5 components to Earth's systems

Cryosphere

Atmosphere

Hydrosphere

Biosphere

Geosphere