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Earth Science 11 - Final Exam: Instructor: Mr. Steed Name: Date
Earth Science 11 - Final Exam: Instructor: Mr. Steed Name: Date
Read each question carefully, then print the letter of the correct answer on the line next to the question.
2. ______ This theory states that the Earth’s crust and rigid upper mantle are broken into
enormous slabs that move in different directions:
a. Tectonic plate theory
b. Seafloor spreading theory
c. The theory of Pangaea
d. The floating earth theory
3. ______ The movement and deposition of weathered materials from one location to another is
called:
a. Chemical weathering
b. Erosion
c. Exfoliation
d. Physical weathering
7. ______ The major erosional agent in many areas with limited precipitation and high
temperatures is:
a. wind
b. rivers
c. human activity
d. glaciers
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8. ______ The repeated freezing and thawing of water in the cracks of rocks is called:
a. exfoliation
b. icing
c. abrasion
d. frost wedging
9. ______ The rotational motion in the mantle that moves the plates of the crust, creating
landforms is:
a. convection
b. conduction
c. platonism
d. vulcanism
15.______ Erosion by scraping, gouging and picking up large rocks and debris piles is caused
by:
a. wind
b. rivers
c. humans
d. glaciers
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20.______ the loose covering of weathered rock particles and decaying organic matter overlying
the bedrock of the Earth's surface is called:
a. humus
b. compost
c. sediment
d. soil
22.______ An object like the earth that is flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator has the
shape of
a. an ellipsis
b. an oblate spheroid
c. a hyperbolic paraboloid
d. a level playing field
25.______ A sedimentary rock made of rounded pebbles and sand grains is called:
a. conglomerate
b. porphyry
c. limestone
d. sandstone
26.______ If sedimentary or igneous rocks are subjected to heat and pressure, they become:
a. limestone
b. magma
c. metamorphic
d. platonic
28.______ A major problem when making a flat map from a sperical earth is:
a. magnetic declination
b. longitude
c. meridians
d. distortion
30.______ The smallest part of an element that has all of the properties of the element is the:
a. ion
b. atom
c. proton
d. molecule
33.______ Water often rises on its own in an artesian well because it is:
a. under an impermeable layer
b. under a permeable layer
c. in a pipe
d. under pressure
34.______ The top of the water saturated region of the ground is the:
a. sea level
b. bedrock
c. capillary fringe
d. water table
35.______ A river, its tributaries and all the land drained by the river are known as the:
a. flood plain
b. drainage basin
c. gully
d. water gap
36.______ The part of a river valley that is underwater during floods is the:
a. flood plain
b. drainage basin
c. gully
d. water gap
39.______ The balance between the rate of ice movement and melting in a glacier determines
its:
a. ice sheet
b. ice front
c. ice caps
d. snow line
41.______ Unsorted and unstratified rock materials deposited directly by a glacier is called:
a. till
b. outwash
c. kettles
d. eskers
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42.______ The distance from the crest of one wave to the crest of the next is the:
a. period
b. fetch
c. wavelength
d. diverging boundary
43.______ The process by which a block of a glacier breaks off and falls into the sea to form an
iceberg is called:
a. waving
b. halving
c. calving
d. caving
44.______ The ratio of the weigh of a mineral to the weight of an equal volume of water is:
a. hardness
b. cleavage
c. density
d. specific gravity
46.______ This earth science studies how human activities, such as oil spills, affect Earth’s
oceans:
a. astronomy
b. meteorology
c. geology
d. oceanography
47.______ Which area of science studies Earth’s origin, history and structure?
a. astronomy
b. meteorology
c. geology
d. oceanography
48.______ The science that deals with the atmosphere and weather is:
a. astronomy
b. meteorology
c. geology
d. oceanography
49.______ The area of earth science that looks beyond Earth is:
a. astronomy
b. meteorology
c. geology
d. oceanography
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51.______ The continuous submarine mountain chain that encircles the globe is:
a. the mid-oceanic ridge system
b. the subduction system
c. the continental margin
d. the sea valley floor
52.______ About 10,000 years ago, the earth’s oceans were __________ than today
a. higher
b. lower
c. saltier
d. less salty
54.______ The point on the earth’s surface directly above where an earthquake occurs is the:
a. basilica
b. epicenter
c. focus
d. richter scale
55.______ The place inside the earth where an eartquake occurs is the:
a. basilica
b. epicenter
c. focus
d. richter scale
60.______ The earth’s layers, listed from LEAST dense to MOST dense are:
a. core, crust, mantle
b. core, mantle, crust
c. mantle, core, crust
d. crust, mantle, core
63.______ A fault in which one side of the fault plane drops down relative to the other side is a:
a. normal fault
b. strike-slip fault
c. fault-block mountain
d. dip-slip fault
64.______ When rocks on opposite sides of the fault plane move horizontally past each other, it
is a:
a. normal fault
b. strike-slip fault
c. fault-block mountain
d. dip-slip fault
74.______ The continuous movement of water between the atmosphere and the earth’s surface is
the:
a. water table
b. water cycle
c. groundwater
d. circulatory system
75.______ The shadow of the earth on the moon or the moon on the earth is an:
a. ellipse
b. orbit
c. eclipse
d. octet
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76.______ Clouds that are at very high elevations and appear as thin, wispy streaks are:
a. cirrus
b. cumulus
c. stratus
d. bogus
77.______ Our entire solar system is part of a star group called the:
a. Milky Way
b. Orion
c. Ursa Minor
d. North Star
83.______ The scientist who developed the three laws of planetary motion was:
a. Kipling
b. Kepler
c. Tim
d. Moby
84.______ The model of the solar system that has the sun in its center is:
a. hysterical
b. hermaneutic
c. heptodynamic
d. heliocentric
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89.______ The farthest point from Earth of the moon’s orbit is its:
a. penumbra
b. apatow
c. solarium
d. apogee
91.______ The first American spacecraft to carry an astronaut into Earth’s orbit was the:
a. Space shuttle
b. Starship enterprise
c. Mercury
d. Galileo
93.______ The effect that causes the apparent deflection of winds is the:
a. Coriolus effect
b. Axe effect
c. Summer solstice
d. Parallax effect
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94.______ The imaginary line across which the date changes is the:
a. prime meridian
b. international date line
c. tropic of capricorn
d. equator
96.______ Places that have the same temperature are connected on a weather map by:
a. degree
b. beaufort scale
c. temperature inversion
d. isotherm
97.______ One degree of cooling per 160 metres of altitude is referred to as the:
a. normal lapse rate
b. mesosphere
c. greenhouse effect
d. ozone layer
99.______ Solid condensation on a surface that is below zero degrees celsius is known as:
a. dew
b. sleet
c. cumulus
d. frost