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Science Study Guide
Unit C Chap. 1
Directions: Fill out the questions, and then use this to study for your test on Friday.
1.
From the outer most layers, name Earth’s three layers.
2.
How do fossils help scientists learn about plants and animals of the past?
3.
What would the Earth’s surface look like if Earth’s plates eventually stopped moving?
4.
If the Earth’s center is the hottest why is it solid?
5.
What does it mean to say that Earth’s plates “float?”
6.
Define these vocabulary words:
Erosion
Continental Drift
Mass Movement
volcano
core
crust
Pangea
Earthquake
Deposition
mantle
Fault
fossils
magma
plate
landform
weathering
7. Would you expect many earthquakes to occur along the Ring of Fire? Why or Why not?
8.
How is it possible that rock from some of the highest mountains has fossils?
9.
What forces created an island along the Mid-Atlantic ridge? Why?
10. What do I mean when I say the Atlantic Ocean is getting wider?
11. Namefive ways that water weathers rock?
12. Name five ways the Earth’s plates form mountains
13. Which type of plate movement forms the highest mountains?
14. Would footprints on the moon last for hundreds of years and why?
15. Draw and label the three layers of the Earth.
16. Draw pictures to represent the different ways water weathers rock.
17. Draw pictures to represent the different ways plates interact with each other.