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Electricity produced by moving water is called what?
a) geothermal energy
b) hydroelectricity
c) biomass energy
d) nuclear energy

Reducing waste and reusing natural resources is called what?
a) observation
b) preservation
c) reservation
d) conservation

Which of the following is an example of a renewable resource?
a) oil
b) wind
c) uranium
d) natural gas

What is the first step in coal formation?
a) hard coal forms
b) soft coal forms
c) organic matter is placed under heat and pressure
d) swamp plants decay and form peat

If Earth's history were one year long, when did humans arrive?
a) December 1
b) November 1
c) December 31
d) November 30

Which best describes an organism being preserved in amber?
a) minerals come in and fill the pores of an organism, taking the organism's shape
b) large blocks of ice preserve large organisms and bones
c) sap from a tree traps and surrounds an organism, it hardents and the organism is preserved inside
d) organisms get trapped between rock and are preserved

What is another term for an unstable isotope?
a) son isotope
b) sibling isotope
c) parent isotope
d) daughter isotope

If sediment is not depositied for a while, it is called which of these?
a) nondeposition
b) erosion
c) sediment loss
d) intrustions

Which of these processes establishes an object's age in years?
a) relative dating
b) absolute dating
c) isometric dating
d) radio wave dating

What do we call comparing the age of objects or events to one another?
a) using unconformities
b) age placement
c) relative dating
d) area adjustments

What is known as an area of deep cracks at a divergent boundary?
a) hot spot
b) subduction zone
c) magma void
d) rift zone

Crater Lake in Oregon is a great example of which of these?
a) shield volcano
b) caldera
c) valley
d) lava plateau

If a volcano has a lot of silica there will be more trapped gasses. Which word will describe this type of volcano?
a) violent
b) calm
c) average
d) bubbly

What effect does wind and water have on mountains?
a) They weather and erode mountains.
b) They build up mountains.
c) They create new mountains.
d) They do not affect mountains.

The idea that an earthquake will occur where it hasn't for awhile is known as what?
a) a gap analysis
b) the gap hypothesis
c) the missing zone
d) area forecasting

What are the instruments that record vibrations in the ground called?
a) seismographs
b) seismograms
c) seismachines
d) the Richter Scale

What percentage of Earth is covered with water?
a) 10%
b) 50%
c) 70%
d) 90%

About how much of Earth's fresh water is frozen and not available for use?
a) one quarter
b) all
c) one half
d) two thirds

What do we call a lake created behind a dam to store water?
a) kettle lake
b) modified lake
c) reservoir
d) drainage basin

Which layer of the ocean is warmest and least dense?
a) surface layer
b) thermocline
c) mesocline
d) deep water

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