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Which horizon contains the most humus?
a) Horizon A
b) Horizon B
c) Horizon C
d) Horizon D

Which piece of evidence helps prove the Continental Drift Theory?
a) Tropical plant fossil found along the equator
b) Cave drawings showing the movement of continents
c) Same land animal fossils found on different continents separated by ocean
d)

What is mechanical weathering?
a) Rock is dissolved
b) Rock breaks apart but is still same type of rock
c) Rock changes into a different type of rock
d)

Which of these is chemical weathering?
a) Ice wedging
b) Root action
c) Oxidation
d) Temperature change

What is ice wedging?
a) Water freezes in a rock, expands, and cracks/breaks the rock
b) Water is used to expand the soil for farming
c) Ice is frozen and driven into trees which helps loggers
d)

What are the 4 agents of erosion?
a) Wind, water, rain, snow
b) Wind, water, glaciers, gravity
c) Water, gravity, wind, sleet
d)

What is weathering?
a) Moving of soil to another place
b) Depositing of soil at another place
c) Breaking down of rocks and other materials
d) Protecting materials from the rain and wind

Plate movement is caused by...
a) Strong surface winds
b) Convection currents in the mantle
c) Earthquakes around the world
d)

Who is responsible for the Theory of Continental Drift?
a) Albert Einstein
b) Jacques Cousteau
c) Alfred Wegener
d)

Earthquakes are associated with which plate boundary?
a) Divergent
b) Convergent
c) Transform
d)

Which boundary is associated with plates moving away from each other?
a) Divergent
b) Convergent
c) Transform
d)

Mountains are formed at which plate boundary?
a) Divergent
b) Convergent
c) Transform
d)

Which boundary is associated with colliding plates?
a) Divergent
b) Convergent
c) Transform
d)

What two layers are part of the lithosphere?
a) Mantle and inner core
b) Lower mantle and outer core
c) Crust and upper mantle
d) Outer core and inner core

What are the layers of the Earth from least dense to most dense?
a) Outer core, inner core, mantle, crust
b) Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
c) Crust, mantle, inner core, outer core
d)

What is the composition of the continental crust?
a) Basalt
b) Iron
c) Iron and nickel
d) Granite

What is the coolest layer of the Earth?
a) Outer core
b) Inner core
c) Crust
d) Mantle

Why is the inner core a solid?
a) It is frozen
b) Pressure from the other layers
c) It's not a solid
d)

What is the hottest layer of the Earth?
a) Inner core
b) Outer core
c) Mantle
d) Crust

What oceanic feature is the deepest part of the ocean?
a) Mid-ocean ridge
b) Guyot
c) Abyssal plain
d) Oceanic trench

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