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Science Benchmark Review Part 1 (Jones)
Test Description: Review of Discovery Ed Science Benchmark.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Scientists have found large groups of fossils of marine organisms on mountaintops. What does this tell scientists about the past?
A
That these rocks must have been moved there by someone else.
B
That these rocks were always above the surface of an ocean.
C
That these rocks were once below the surface of an ocean.
D
That these organisms left the ocean and climbed to the top of an inland mountain to die.
2) What is the importance of studying fossils?
A
to provide information about how life and environmental conditions may have changed.
B
to provide information about how previous life forms would exist in current environmental conditions.
C
to provide information about how current life forms would exist in previous environmental conditions.
D
to provide information about current life forms and current environmental conditions.
3) Scientists can estimate the ages of rock if they contain certain
A
carbons.
B
minerals.
C
index fossils.
D
sediments.
4) The process by which rocks are broken down into smaller pieces is:
A
weathering.
B
erosion.
C
foliation.
D
deposition.
5) What must happen to a sedimentary rock in order for it to change into an igneous rock?
A
It must be put under pressure until new minerals form in it.
B
It must become cemented to other rocks.
C
It must be weathered and eroded.
D
It must melt, then cool and harden.
6) The movement of rock materials from one place to another by water, wind, ice or gravity is ___.
A
erosion
B
weathering
C
volcanism
D
isostasy
7) The breaking of rock into pieces by physical means is called:
A
sedimentation.
B
chemical weathering.
C
erosion.
D
mechanical weathering.
8) At convergent plate boundaries rocks are squeezed, pushed downward, and heated. This pressure and heat changes many rocks into ___ rocks.
A
organic
B
metamorphic
C
igneous
D
sedimentary
9) Identify the product of seafloor spreading.
A
tides
B
salt in the sea
C
sedimentary rock
D
volcanic rock
10) Convergent plate boundaries ___.
A
collide
B
slide past each other
C
do not move
D
pull apart
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