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Unit 1 Earth's History
Test Description: Continental Drift, Plate Boundaries, Types of Rocks, Relative and Absolute Age, Ice Cores
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What is the study of Earth?
A
Biology
B
Geology
C
Psychology
D
Hydrology
2) The process by which the continents split apart from a single landmass
A
continental move
B
continental relocation
C
continental spread
D
continental drift
3) Which of the following is not a type of plate boundary?
A
Divergent Boundary
B
Translation Boundary
C
Transform Boundary
D
Convergent Boundary
4) What type of boundary forms mountains, volcanoes, and islands?
A
Convergent Boundary
B
Divergent Boundary
C
Transform Boundary
D
None
5) Which type of boundary causes the sea floor to spread and mid-ocean ridges?
A
Transform Boundary
B
Convergent Boundary
C
Divergent Boundary
D
None
6) What geologic event can occur at any type of boundary?
A
Volcanoes
B
Mountains
C
Earthquakes
D
Sea Floor Spreading
7) Which can scientists most likely conclude from discovering tropical plant fossils at the North Pole?
A
c. Ancient plants mutated to survive in the cold polar climate of the North Pole.
B
a. Temperatures at the North Pole were once much warmer.
C
d. Higher levels of carbon dioxide once existed in the atmosphere at the North Pole.
D
b. Only a few species of plants used to grow at the North Pole.
8) Fossils of warm-weather plants were found on an island in the Arctic Ocean. What can best be concluded from this discovery?
A
The island drifted from a tropical region to its present location.
B
Seeds of plants have been carried to the island by migratory birds.
C
Ocean currents carried the plants to the island
D
Spores of plants drifted by air currents to the island.
9) Where does sea-floor spreading occur?
A
Where two oceanic plates collide
B
c. Where two oceanic plates move apart
C
b. Where an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide
D
d. Where two continental plates move apart
10) The type of rock that is made of hardened sediment
A
Sedimentary Rock
B
Metamorphic Rock
C
Igneous Rock
D
None
11) the type of rock formed when melted rock cools and hardens
A
Sedmentary Rock
B
Metamorphic Rock
C
Igneous Rock
D
None
12) the type of rock formed when existing rock is exposed to high heat, high pressure or both.
A
Metamorphic Rock
B
Igneous Rock
C
None
D
Sedimentary Rock
13) Which of the following is NOT an example of relative age?
A
Anthony is the youngest.
B
Melony is 4 years old.
C
Ashley is older than Melony but younger than Shatiqua.
D
Michael is older than Shatiqua.
14) How can a sedimentary rock change into a metamorphic rock?
A
heat and pressure
B
cooling
C
melting
D
breaking down of rock
15) Which of the following is NOT an example of absolute age?
A
Monica is 8 years old.
B
Mark is 12 years old.
C
Layla is 15 years old.
D
Joseph is older than Kesha
16) The law that states the layer on the bottow is the oldest layer, and the layer on top is the youngest
A
Newton's Laws
B
Law of Superposition
C
My Law
D
Law of Conservation of Energy
17) 35. Radioactive dating is used to find
A
c. The absolute ages of rocks and fossils
B
d. The relative ages of rocks and fossils
C
a. The locations of index fossils
D
b. The identities of index fossils
18) h. The break or crack, in Earth’s surface along which movement occurs is called a
A
crust
B
lithosphere
C
plate boundary
D
fault
19) 32. Which part of Earth’s history is best shown by analysis of ice cores?
A
d. changes in the formation of rock layers
B
c. changes in the amounts of precipitation
C
a. changes in climate
D
b. changes in plant growth
20) 34. Trilobite is an example of an index fossil. Which best describes the criteria necessary for a fossil to be used as an index fossil?
A
b. The fossil must be found both in rock layers on the land and in rock layers under the ocean
B
d. The fossil must be found in at least three different types of sedimentary rock layers and at least two different types of
C
a. The fossil must be from a mammal
D
c. The fossil must be found in areas on Earth and must be from an organism that lived for a relatively short time span
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