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Pre-Quiz 1: Chapter 15 and 24
10 points
____ 1. What is another name for Cartesian coordinates?
a) Rectangular coordinates
b) Spherical coordinates
c) Graph paper
____2. In the image below, which line is a latitude?
B
A
____3. How long is Earth’s precession period?
a) 2.58 years
b) 258 years
c) 25,800 years
d) 2,580,000 years
____4. How old is the Earth?
a) Four hundred fifty years
b) Four thousand, five hundred years
c) Four million, five hundred thousand years
d) Four billion, five hundred million years
5. What is the second part of this sentence from your book: “The longer the organism has been dead …”
a) …the more it smells and the softer it becomes, making it hard for it to turn into a fossil
b) …the more deeply it becomes buried in the Earth
c) …the faster it turns into a fossil
d) …the lower the radioactivity of each gram of carbon in its remains
Pre-Quiz 2: Chapter 5 and 21
10 points
_____ 1. As a general rule do most substances expand or contract when they freeze?
a. expand
b. contract
_____ 2. What stage of matter has particles that are flying around like crazy?
a. solid
b. liquid
c. gas
d. plasma
_____ 3. Which of the Earth’s layers are made of metal? (You can choose as many as you want.)
a. crust
b. mantle
c. outer core
d. inner core
____ 4. What was the name of the giant supercontinent that existed hundreds of millions of years ago?
a. Pangaea.
b. Rhodinia
c. Moho
d. Alfredia
Pre-quiz 3 Chapters 11 and 22
1. Which is correct”
a. atoms are made of molecules
b. molecules are made of atoms
2. Name three elements.
Anything on the periodic table!
3. What are the most common elements on Earth?
Oxygen and silicon
4. What is the difference between lava and magma?
Lava is melted rock above ground, magma is melted rock below ground.
5. How are metamorphic rocks formed?
a. from heat and pressure inside the Earth
b. from pieces of sediment that lithify
c. from molten rock in the form of lava or magma
d. from dinosaur fossils and plant remains
Pre-Quiz 4: Chapters 6 and 23
1. Waves involve the propagation of what?
a. matter
b. light
c. sound
d. disturbances
e. energy
2. Wave speed is equal to the wavelength times ________________.
a. the speed of light
b. the frequency
c. the period
d. the amplitude
3. What are decibels are used to measure?
a. wavelength
b. frequency
c. loudness
d. speed
4. What kind of waves are light waves?
a. transverse
b. longitudinal
5. A Doppler blueshift in light from a star indicates that the star is doing what?
a. coming closer
b. moving away
c. getting ready to explode
d. feeling sad
6. Is weathering caused by biological or non-biological forces?
a. biological
b. non-biological
c. both
7. What kind of rocks undergo weathering? (choose only one answer)
a. igneous
b. sedimentary
c. metamorphic
d. any type
8. Are glaciers made of solid or liquid water?
a. solid
b. liquid
9. What is one famous example in California of a glacier-carved valley?
a. Death Valley
b. The San Fernando Valley
c. Yosemite Valley
d. Lake Tahoe
10. What powers the hydrologic cycle?
a. the Sun
b. heat in the Earth
c. evaporation
d. life on Earth
Post-quiz 1 (not given)
1. Take a look at the image to the right. Each layer is
labelled with the time period. List the time periods in order
from OLDEST to YOUNGEST!
_I,H,G,F,E,D,C,X,B,Y,A____________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
2. Is layer Y the youngest or oldest layer?
Neither—it is the second-youngest layer
3. What principle of geologic dating did you use to figure
that out?
Cross-cutting relationships
4. In the diagram below, label the seasons (winter, spring,
summer, fall). Label where the equinoxes and solstices occur.
SUN
5. What is your birthday—just the MONTH and DAY, not the year? (if you don’t want to write your real
birthday, you can make one up!) Show where your birthday occurs in the diagram above.
Answers will vary!
Post-quiz 2 (given on 2/22/17)
_____ 1. In which of the following states of matter are molecules the most spread out?
a. solid
b. liquid
c. gas
_____ 2. The San Andreas Fault is what kind of plate boundary?
a. divergent
b. convergent
c. transform
_____ 3. What is the Earth’s core made out of?
a. crust
b. metal
c. rock
d. heat
_____ 4. What happens at a divergent boundary?
a. Plates moves apart
b. Plates crash together
c. Plates slide past each other
_____ 5. Name at least one form of heat transfer.
Radiation, convection, or conduction
Post-quiz 3 Chapters 11 and 22
Given on 3-1-17
Circle AND write the letters to your answers
_____ 1. Which of the following is NOT an element? Choose all that apply.
a. carbon
d. iron
b. water
e. oxygen
c. silicon
_____ 2. What are the two most common elements on Earth? Choose all that apply.
Choose all that apply.
a. carbon
d. iron
b. water
e. oxygen
c. silicon
_____ 3. What are the two MAIN types of sedimentary rock?
a. biogenic
c. depositional
b. chemical
d. evaporites
4. How could you tell halite from calcite (name at least one way)
Using the hardness test, or streak, luster, cleavage or acid test.
_____ 5. Are plutons formed from magma or lava?
a. magma
b. lava
_____ 6. Where on Earth would you find an abundance of igneous rocks (choose all that apply)?
a. at plate boundaries
d. deep in the Earth
b. under the ocean
e. in rivers and streams
c. near volcanoes
This is a bad question and I didn’t count it.
_____ 7. Where are metamorphic rocks formed?
a. at plate boundaries
d. deep in the Earth
b. under the ocean
e. in rivers and streams
This is a bad question and I didn’t count it.
c. near volcanoes
_____ 8. The periodic table is a way to list _________________.
a. elements
c. minerals
b. elephants
d. valence electrons
_TRUE__ 9. True or false: igneous rocks can turn into sedimentary rocks?
_____ 10. Where do rocks come from?
a. The mantle
b. Asteroids
c. Volcanos
d. An exploding star
e. The ocean
f. All of the above