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SCIENCE 1(Earth Science)

NAME:

Directions: Choose the best answer and encircle the letter that corresponds to your answer.

1. All of the following are associated with seafloor spreading except:


A. divergent plate boundaries C. old age of oceanic crust compared to continental crust
B. mid-oceanic ridges D. rising of magma from the asthenosphere
2. Which of the following occurs when two oceanic plates collide?
A. folded mountain formation C. subduction
B. seafloor spreading D. tension
3. Any plate boundary where the plates collide is called a ___________ boundary.
A. convergent B. divergent C. strike-slip D. transform
4. The theory of _______ explains all known major surface geological phenomena.
A. continental drift C. sea-floor spreading
B. plate tectonics D. none of the above
5. What are formed when two continental plates collide?
A. folded mountains B. rift valleys C. trenches D. volcanoes
6. What kind of fault is formed by tension?
A. normal B. reverse C. lateral D. transform
7. On the other hand, what kind of fault is formed by compression?
A. normal B. reverse C. lateral D. transform
8. Volcanic eruptions usually occur at the _______ of continents where forces between adjoining tectonic plates
are usually the strongest.
A. bottom B. edges C. middle D. surface
9. What kind of energy do seismic waves carry?
A. kinetic B. light C. potential D. radiant
10. The earth has _______ energy and is changed into ________ energy during an earthquake.
A. kinetic…….potential C. mechanical……light
B. potential……..kinetic D. light……radiant
11. In volcano, what factor causes magma to move through a pipe?
A. heat C. heat and pressure
B. pressure D. temperature
12. Which best characterizes a cinder cone volcano?
A. has flat top formed from runny lava that flows away from the vent
B. has steep sides, generally formed by wet, silica – rich magma
C. contain alternating layers of volcanic debris and lava, has steep tops but gently sloping bases
D. has steep slopes, contains layers of cinders and lava

13. The _______ seismic waves can cause the most damage because they cause the earth’s surface to move up
or down or side to side
A. P B. L C. S D. P and S
14. Which best characterizes a mineral?
1.naturally formed
2.solid
3.has definite crystal structure
4.organic
5.maybe an element or a compound

A. 1, 2, 3, 4 B. 1, 2, 3, 5 C. 1, 2, 4, 5 D. 1, 3, 4, 5
15. Which is NOT a mineral?
A. coal B. diamond C. feldspar D. graphite
16. Which is a metamorphic rock?
A. schist B. dolomite C. pumice D. limestone
17. Igneous rocks are formed by the _________ of magma.
A. cooling and solidifying C. depositing and cementing
B. cooling and cementing D. solidifying and depositing

18. The process by which new rocks are formed thru intense heat and pressure is called ________.
A. crystallization B. lithification C. metamorphism D. plastic deformation

19. Both sedimentary rocks are metamorphic foliated rocks have layers. Sedimentary rocks are formed by
_________ while foliated rock layers consist of _________.
A. particles of different sizes……..different minerals
B. particles of the same size……….same minerals
C. organisms of different sizes………same minerals
D. different minerals…….particles of different sizes

20. When magma cools rapidly, the rocks that form __________.
A. have small or no minerals C. have large mineral crystals
B. are glassy D. are fractured
21. A rock with two very different textures means that the rock probably
A. is sedimentary C. is metamorphic
B. formed at two different depths D. formed as two different rocks fused
22. The oldest rock layers lie on the bottom according to the principle of
A. crosscutting C. superposition
B. faunal succession D. uniform process
23. The parent rock of gneiss is __________.
A. clay B. shale C. limestone D. granite
24. Breakdown of rocks due to daily fluctuations in temperature is a form of _________.
A. chemical weathering C. mechanical weathering
B. leaching D. oxidation

25. Which is NOT a factor of weathering?


A. heat . C. plants and animals
B. temperature and pressure D. magnetic field

26. Frost action breaks rocks apart due to _________.


A. the expansion of water as it expands C. the sharp edges of the ice
B. the dissolution of minerals by water D. none of the above

27. Which mineral will resist weathering the most?


A. calcite B. feldspar C. iron oxide D. quartz

28. The most important product of weathering is _______.


A. another rock B. mineral C. soil D. fine particle of rock

29. Daily temperature changes affect rocks due to the ________ of the outer surface layer of the rock which
causes rocks to crack.
1.expansion
2.contraction
3.convection
A. 1 only B. 2 only C. 1 and 2 D. 2 and 3
30. Which is not a form of chemical weathering?
A. carbonation B. exfoliation C. hydration D. oxidation

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