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What is the correct order of earth's atmospheric layers from bottom to top?
a) Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Troposphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
b) Stratosphere, Troposphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Exosphere
c) Troposphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
d) Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere

In which layer do virtually all weather phenomena take place?
a) Mesosphere
b) Stratosphere
c) Thermosphere
d) Troposphere

What instrument is used to measure air pressure?
a) Barometer
b) Radiosonde
c) Seismograph
d) Thermometer

What is it called when water changes from gas to liquid?
a) freezing
b) evaporation
c) melting
d) condensation

What form of energy transfer allows the Sun to heat Earth?
a) radiation
b) conduction
c) recycling
d) convention

Within which layer of the atmosphere do you find rain, snow, and clouds?
a) mesosphere
b) thermosphere
c) stratosphere
d) troposphere

The atmosphere
a) creates the tides
b) has no effect on heat gain or loss on a planet
c) allows heat to escape quickly in order to cool the planet
d) keeps heat from escaping too quickly into space

Sleet and hail are types of
a) gases in the atmosphere
b) layers in the atmosphere
c) air pressure
d) precipitation

In the rock cycle how are igneous rocks created?
a) By landslides breaking off cliffs creating much smaller rocks
b) By rivers and lakes drying up and exposing rock beds to the sun and air
c) By lava or magma hardening into rock
d) By sand and clay being crushed deep in the Earth’s crust and the pressure forcing them into rocks

What is erosion in the rock cycle?
a) Providing more information
b) Moving of rocks and sand
c) Changing something by carving
d) Process of wearing away rocks

______ is the process called of igneous rock changing to sedimentary rock then to magma rock and back to sedimentary rock continuously.
a) The Rock Cycle
b) The Stone Theory
c) Erosion
d) Fermentation

What are the three types of rocks in the rock cycle?
a) Metamorphic, paleantic and oceanic
b) Sedentary, igneous and metallic
c) Oceanic, igneous and sedimentary
d) Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic

Wind and rain weather igneous rocks causing them to erode into sediment which becomes what kind of rock in the rock cycle?
a) Volcanic rock
b) Sedimentary rock
c) Metamorphic rock
d) Solid rock

When sedimentary rock is buried beneath the Earth’s surface it may become another rock in the rock cycle called_____?
a) Igneous rock
b) Metallic rock
c) Metamorphic rock
d) Oceanic rock

Sedimentary rock can be changed by heat and pressure into ___________ ___________.
a) Sedimentary rock
b) Igneous rock
c) Metamorphic rock
d) Rock cycle

Hot, melted rock, also known as lava, is called ___________
a) Syrup
b) Glass
c) Volcano
d) magma

Igneous rock can be broken down into fragments that may later form __________ __________?
a) Metamorphic rock
b) Sedimentary rock
c) Igneous rock
d) Volcanic glass

Heat and pressure is the process for which type of rock?
a) Sedimentary
b) Igneous
c) Metamorphic
d) magma

Which of the following is the correct definition of weathering?
a) The breakdown of rocks
b) The removal of rocks
c) The movement of rock
d) none of the above

Which of the following is the definition of erosion?
a) The process of disintegration of rock and soil
b) The processes that involve the movement of soil and rock
c) Both A and B
d) Neither A or B

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