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Name:_________________
Earth Science: Test Review
1)
_____ The crust and the rigid part of Earth’s mantle
2)
_____ The central part of the Earth.
3)
_____ Earth’s solid, rock surface.
4)
_____ The layer of the Earth beneath the crust.
5)
______ The theory that Earth’s surface is broken into pieces
or plates, that slide over the magma in the mantle.
6)
_____ The moving apart of plates on the ocean floor that is caused
by magma flowing up between the plates and then hardening.
7)
_____ The slow movement of the continents over eons.
8)
_____ At one time all the continents were formed to together to
form a “Super continent.”
9)
_____ Erosion caused by Earth’s gravity pulling materials from
high places to low places.
10) _____ The breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces by
natural processes.
11) _____ The breaking down of rock by physical changes.
12) _____ The breaking down of rock by changes in its chemical
composition.
13) _____ The picking up and removal of rock pieces and other particles.
14) _____ The dropping off of eroded particles in different locations
from where they were picked up.
15) _____ A mixture of weathered rock, air, water, and humus that
can support the growth of rooted plants.
16) _____ Decayed plants and animals in the soil.
17) _____ Small, loose pieces of minerals, rock, and organic material,
some of which are deposited when a river slows.
18) _____ A rock that forms when small pieces of rocks, minerals,
and shells are deposited, buried, and are squeezed and
cemented together.
19) _____ The process in which rocks continuously change from
one kind into another over long periods of time.
20) _____ A rock that forms from other rocks which have changed
from heat, pressure, or a chemical reaction.
21) _____ Rock that forms when melted rock in the form of lava
or magma cools and turns into a solid.
22) _____ The sediment that forms in front of or along the
sides of a glacier.
23) _____ Soil in which water can flow easily through.
24) _____ Soil in which water cannot easily flow through.
Matching:
Each choice may
only be used once.
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Moraine
Permeable
Impermeable
Weathering
Physical
Weathering
F) Chemical
Weathering
G) Erosion
H) Deposition
I) Soil
J) Humus
K) Sediment
L) Igneous
Rock
M) Metamorphic
Rock
N) Sedimentary
Rock
O) Rock
Cycle
P) Mass
Wasting
Q) Pangaea
R) Continental
Drift
S) Seafloor
Spreading
T) Plate
Tectonics
U) Mantle
V) Crust
W) Core
X) Lithosphere
Name:_________________
Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.
1. Name the layers of the earth from outer most to inner most and provide a brief
description of each layer.
2. What are convection currents and where do they occur?
3. Earth’s lithospheric plates are constantly moving. Approximately how far do they move
per year?
4. What evidence did Alfred Wegener have when he said all the continents were one giant
landmass?
5. Name the three geologic features/events that occur when plates move.
6. What feature mainly occurs when two continental plates collide?
7. What are fossils and what do they tell us about the earth?
8. Explain relative age.