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6ES2 Unite Test Review – Yesterday, Today. And Tomorrow
The Earth as a Magnet:
1. What materials in the earth are magnetic?
2. Where are the magnetic materials of the earth found?
3. Where are the strongest magnetic fields of the Earth found?
4. Where do compass needles point?
Magnets in general:
5. How are the molecules in magnetic objects arranged?
6. How are the molecules in a non-magnetic object arranged?
Sediments:
7. What are sediments?
8. What happens when sediments are placed under extreme pressure?
9. Draw and label a magnet showing its charges
10. What are the 2 rules of magnetism?
Fossils:
11. What are fossils?
12. List at least 3 ways they are formed or found
13. Draw a diagram showing how the fossils of a bird would be found if they
were 10 years old, 25 years old, and 50 years old
14. What does the term geological history refer to?
15. What makes a petrified fossil special?
16. Do most organisms eventually become fossils? Explain your answer.
Timelines:
17. What is a timeline? Why is it useful?
18. What does relative dating mean? Give 1-2 examples
19. Name 3 environmental conditions that can affect the world we live in.
Tectonic plates:
20. The tectonic plates make up what?
21. How many tectonic plates are there?
22. How do tectonic plates move?
23. What is Pangaea?
24. Where do most earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
25. Which type of plate is heavier and why? (Oceanic or continental)
Hr: _____
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Directions of the tectonic plates
Direction
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
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Hr: _____
Causes what?
Choices for below: Volcano, mountains, earthquakes, new sea floor
What forms when:
 Continental + continental collide
 Continental + oceanic collide
 2 plates slide against each other
 2 oceanic plates move apart
The Earth:
26. What do longitude and latitude measure?
27. What are the 2 types of crust, and where are they located?
28. Draw and label the layers of the Earth
29. Which core layer(s) are liquid, and which are solid and why?
30. Why is the mantle important to us and scientists? (what is it responsible for)
31. What minerals make up the core?
32. Draw a diagram showing where the newest and oldest rocks are located when
the sea floor splits apart.