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1. 
Igneous Rock
2. 
Sedimentary Rock
3. 
Metamorphic Rock
4. 
Where do most metamorphic rocks form?
A.
LANDSLIDES
B.
TYPE OF ROCK
C.
TYPE OF CLIMATE
D.
DEEP UNDERGROUND
5. 
What determines the rate of weathering?
A.
TYPE OF CLIMATE
B.
LAVA HARDENS
C.
CLASTIC
D.
TYPE OF ROCK
6. 
What are the 4 types of mass movement? What causes these to happen? GRAVITY
A.
LANDSLIDES
B.
SLATE
C.
MUDFLOWS
D.
MARBLE
E.
SLUMP
F.
CREEP
7. 
How is soil formed?
8. 
What do living organisms do for soil?
9. 
Soil that is rich in humus has high
10. 
If soil is not protected by plant cover it can be lost.
11. 
What factors does the amount of runoff in an area depends on?
A.
TRANSPIRATION, CONDENSATION, PRECIPITATION
B.
FOLIATED AND NON-FOLIATED
C.
VEGETATION, RAIN, AND SOIL TYPE.
D.
MIX THE SOIL AND MAKE HUMUS.
12. 
List the FIVE steps of the water cycle:
13. 
What is Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift?
14. 
What were Wegener’s 3 pieces of evidence that he used to prove his hypothesis?
A.
EVIDENCE FROM CLIMATE
B.
EVIDENCE FROM LANDFORMS
C.
EVIDENCE FROM ROCKS
D.
EVIDENCE FROM FOSSILS
15. 
What is the correct order of Earth’s layers from the core to the surface?
16. 
What causes the movement of Earth’s plates?
A.
CONVECTION CURRENTS IN THE CHINA
B.
CONVECTION CURRENTS IN THE FILES
C.
CONVECTION CURRENTS IN THE MANTLE
D.
CONVECTION CURRENTS IN THE MODS
17. 
Why are fossil fuels considered nonrenewable?
A.
IT CAN BE ERODED BY WATER OR WIND.
B.
THE CONTINENTS ONCE FORMED PANGAEA
C.
? OCEAN CURRENTS WARM OR COOL THE AIR ABOVE THEM.
D.
THEY TAKE HUNDRES OF MILLIONS OF YEARS TO FORM.
18. 
The 3 major fossil fuels are:
19. 
List 5 types of renewable resources:
20. 
What causes our tides?
21. 
When are tides highest?
22. 
What causes surface waves on the ocean?
A.
THE MOON
B.
HYDROELECTRIC POWER
C.
THE SUN
D.
WIND.
23. 
How do ocean currents affect the air above them?
24. 
23. What happens to temperature and pressure as you descend the water column?
A.
SOLAR POWER
B.
Temperature - DECREASES
C.
THE INTERACTION OF EARTH
D.
Pressure - INCREASES
25. 
Percentage of Earth’s water that is salt water:
26. 
One of the conditions required for life on Earth to exist is
A.
GROUNDWATER
B.
SOILD WATER
C.
LIQUID WATER.
D.
WATER VAPOR
27. 
Earth’s atmosphere is important to living things because
28. 
Explain the different characteristics of cool air vs. warm air.
A.
Cool air – MORE DENSE AND FLOWS UNDER WARM AIR, HOLDS LESS VAPOR
B.
PROVIDES ALL GASES THAT LIVING THINGS NEED TO SURVIVE.
C.
AIR ABOVE LAND HEATS AND COOLS FASTER THAN AIR ABOVE THE WATER.
D.
Warm air – HOLDS MORE WATER VAPOR THAN COOL AIR, LESS DENSE, RISES
29. 
How does the air above land differ from the air above water?
30. 
What causes winds?
A.
EVIDENCE FROM FOSSILS
B.
PARTICLES IN AIR
C.
DIFFERENCES IN AIR PRESSURE.
D.
EVIDENCE FROM LANDFORMS
31. 
What happens to air pressure as you go upwards in the atmosphere?
32. 
What is the densest layer of the atmosphere?
33. 
What does the Ozone Layer do?
34. 
What two conditions are needed for clouds to form?
A.
DIFFERENCES IN AIR PRESSURE.
B.
FLOWS UNDER WARM AIR
C.
COOLING OF AIR TO DEW POINT
D.
PARTICLES IN AIR
35. 
Where do hurricanes form?
36. 
Thunderstorms form in which type of clouds?
37. 
Why does the Earth have seasons?
38. 
Describe terrestrial Planets
39. 
Describe Gas Giants
40. 
What does the Asteroid Belt have to do with these two groups of planets?
41. 
List 1 unique fact for each planet below is known for Venus
42. 
List 1 unique fact for each planet below is known for Mars
43. 
List 1 unique fact for each planet below is known for Jupiter
44. 
List 1 unique fact for each planet below is known for Saturn
45. 
What phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse occur?
46. 
Solar eclipse?
A.
first quarter
B.
FULL MOON
C.
NEW MOON
D.
Last quarter
47. 
What two factors keep the Earth in its orbit?
A.
GALAXY
B.
GRAVITY
C.
SPIRAL
D.
INERTIA
48. 
How are comets different from asteroids and meteoroids?
49. 
What do meteoroids, meteors and meteorites have in common?
50. 
How do they differ?
51. 
What is happening during Solstice?
52. 
At what two times of the year does this occur Solstice?
53. 
What is happening during Equinox?
54. 
At what two times of the year does this occur Equinox?