Earth Science Practice Quiz 2

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Which statement about fossils is correct? *

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Fossils are an indications of life from long ago that have been preserved in Earth’s rock layers

Fossils can be found in metamorphic rocks

Fossils can only be preserved properly in high oxygenated and wet environments

None of these are correct

What are types of eruptions? *

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Explosive

Effusive

Both are correct

Both are incorrect

Why do the coasts surrounding the Pacific ocean experience so many earthquakes? *

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The Earth's magnetic field is strongest on those boundaries

The ocean is expanding and sinking the continental plate

They outline a gigantic crustal plate which moves frequently

Godzilla

What sand source is known to be cursed? *

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Australia

Hawaii

Colorado

Moon sand

True or false: sedimentary rocks can undergo heat and pressure to become a metamorphic rocks? *

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True

False

What qualifies an igneous rock? *

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Chemical weathering

Sediment particles are compacted together

Heat and pressure

Volcanoic eruption

What shape do rocks eroded by wind take? *

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Flat

Round

Jagged

Angular

How is sand formed? *

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By the weathering processes which is wind, rain, and freezing/thawing

When the reefs breaks it down by currents and waves.

Origin unknown

Which is NOT a factor that influences different types of sand? *

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Rocks carried down the steam from the mountains

The reefs break down by currents and waves.

Precipitates from water

All of answers are correct

What does sublimation/ desublimation mean? *

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To skip the liquid phase

To skip the solid phase

To skip the gas phase

What system takes water out of the atmosphere? *

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Condensation

Evapotranspiration

Desublimation

Sublimation

The key processes in the rock cycle are: *

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heat & pressure

weather & erosion

heat & pressure and weather & erosion

None of the above

True or False: Intrusive igneous rocks have larger crystals? *

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True

False

Bryanna has an igneous rock in her collection, where did the rock most likely originate from? *

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In a volcano

Bottom of a lake

In the coral reef

Bottom of a mountain

Where would you expect to find the smaller crystals? *

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Extrusive Igneous Rocks

Intrustive Igneous Rocks

Metamorphic Rocks

Sedimentary Rocks

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