Science Final Study Guide

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Final study guide for 9th grade earth and space science
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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
How are atoms structured?
Respuesta
  • Electrons and neutrons are located in the nucleus, protons surround nucleus
  • Molecules and neutrons are located in the nucleus, electrons surround nucleus
  • Protons and neutrons are located in the nucleus, electrons surround nucleus
  • Protons and electrons are located in the nucleus, neutrons surround nucleus

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
How do we determine the mass and number of an atom?
Respuesta
  • Mass is equal to the number of neutrons in the nucleus, and the number is the sum of protons and electrons.
  • Mass is the sum of protons and neutrons, and the number is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus.
  • Mass is the sum of electrons and neutrons, and the number is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus.
  • Mass is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus, and the number is the sum of neutrons and electrons.

Pregunta 3

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An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 4

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What is an isotope?
Respuesta
  • Two or more forms of the same element that contain equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei
  • An element with more protons than neutron
  • A pair of valence electrons in an element
  • A group of elements that have the same amount of protons but different numbers of neutrons

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
What are the different states of matter?
Respuesta
  • Gas
  • Liquid
  • Vapor
  • Plasma
  • Condensation
  • Solid
  • Volatile

Pregunta 6

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A solid can take on shapes of its container.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 7

Pregunta
A liquid flows easily and is not easily compressible.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 8

Pregunta
Gases have large spaces between particles and move freely.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 9

Pregunta
What is Plasma?
Respuesta
  • Heated to temperatures of 5,000 degrees C
  • Least commonly found state of matter
  • Another word for a gas
  • Collisions knock atoms together that the electrons are knocked away from the atoms
  • Found in Stars, Sun, Lightning, Light Bulbs, and neon signs

Pregunta 10

Pregunta
Mixtures cannot be separated easily.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 11

Pregunta
What are compounds?
Respuesta
  • Composed of atoms of two or more different elements that are chemically combined
  • Composed of multiple atoms of one element that are chemically combined
  • Composed of different elements that are physically combined
  • Composed of multiple atoms of one element that are physically combined

Pregunta 12

Pregunta
What are some special features in identifying a mineral?
Respuesta
  • inorganic
  • solution
  • solid with a specific chemical composition
  • a definite crystalline structure
  • synthetically produced

Pregunta 13

Pregunta
Field Tests to identify a mineral sample.
Respuesta
  • Color
  • Lust
  • Texture
  • Streak
  • Weight
  • Size
  • Hardness
  • Cleavage & Fracture
  • Ores
  • Gems

Pregunta 14

Pregunta
What should be on the y-axis of graphs?
Respuesta
  • Distance
  • Time

Pregunta 15

Pregunta
What should be on the x-axis?
Respuesta
  • Distance
  • Time

Pregunta 16

Pregunta
What are the causes for a sedimentary rock to turn into a metamorphic rock?
Respuesta
  • Changed by heat, pressure, and/or chemical action
  • Weathering & Erosion
  • melting and Solidification

Pregunta 17

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How do sedimentary Rocks form?
Respuesta
  • Weathering and Erosion
  • Compaction and Cementation
  • transportation and Deposition
  • Heat and Pressure

Pregunta 18

Pregunta
In what Type of rock can a fossil be found?
Respuesta
  • Sedimentary
  • Metamorphic
  • Igneous

Pregunta 19

Pregunta
Latitude lines show north & South and include the Equator.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 20

Pregunta
Longitude lines show east & west and the Prime Meridian is 0 degrees.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 21

Pregunta
How many time zones are there?
Respuesta
  • 24
  • 6
  • 12
  • 36

Pregunta 22

Pregunta
What is the equator?
Respuesta
  • 0 degrees latitude
  • 0 degrees longitude
  • 180 degrees longitude
  • 90 degrees latitude

Pregunta 23

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Each Longitude line is 15 degrees, how much time is in between?
Respuesta
  • one hour
  • two hours
  • one day
  • 12 hours

Pregunta 24

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The South Pole is at 90 degrees north.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 25

Pregunta
What type of river is the oldest?
Respuesta
  • Meandering
  • Braided
  • Anabranching

Pregunta 26

Pregunta
What is the time zone difference between Boston and Denver?
Respuesta
  • 2 hours
  • 4 hours
  • 1 hour
  • They are in the same time zone

Pregunta 27

Pregunta
What is the energy released during an earthquake?
Respuesta
  • magnitude
  • intensity
  • seismic waves
  • aftershock

Pregunta 28

Pregunta
Where are you safest during an earthquake?
Respuesta
  • Under a sturdy table or in a door frame
  • Under a sturdy table or move quickly
  • In a door frame or move quickly

Pregunta 29

Pregunta
The quiet volcano is the shield volcano and it is round with sloping sides
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 30

Pregunta
Which type of volcano is the most explosive?
Respuesta
  • Composite
  • Shield
  • Cinder Cone

Pregunta 31

Pregunta
What causes volcanoes to explode?
Respuesta
  • Pressure of gases
  • Shifting of plates

Pregunta 32

Pregunta
Where is the Ring of Fire located?
Respuesta
  • Outside of the Pacific Ocean
  • Outside of the Atlantic Ocean
  • Outside of the Indian Ocean
  • Outside of the Arctic Ocean
  • Only In Asia
  • Only In America
  • Only In Europe
  • Only In Africa

Pregunta 33

Pregunta
In what time period is the early man formed?
Respuesta
  • Cenozoic
  • Paleozoic
  • Mesozoic
  • Precambrian

Pregunta 34

Pregunta
What phase of the moon comes after the New Moon
Respuesta
  • Waxing Crescent
  • Waning Crescent
  • Waxing Quarter
  • Waning Quarter

Pregunta 35

Pregunta
What is a wave's length?
Respuesta
  • From crest to crest
  • From trough to crest
  • From trough to trough

Pregunta 36

Pregunta
Which has the shortest wave length?
Respuesta
  • gamma ray
  • UV rays
  • Radio
  • Micro wave
  • Infrared
  • Visible
  • X-Ray

Pregunta 37

Pregunta
Which has the longest wave length?
Respuesta
  • Radio
  • Microwave
  • Infrared
  • Visible
  • ultraviolet
  • X-ray
  • Gamma ray

Pregunta 38

Pregunta
Freshwater is denser than ocean water.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 39

Pregunta
What type of clouds create thunderstorms?
Respuesta
  • cumulonimbus
  • stratus
  • cumulus
  • cirrus
  • stratocumulus

Pregunta 40

Pregunta
In what type of fault does the hanging wall slide down and the foot wall go up?
Respuesta
  • normal
  • reverse
  • strike-slip

Pregunta 41

Pregunta
What is the epicenter?
Respuesta
  • the above ground origin of the earhtquake
  • the under ground origin of the earhtquake
  • a break in Earth's crust

Pregunta 42

Pregunta
What is the focus of an earthquake?
Respuesta
  • the under ground origin of an earthquake
  • the above ground origin of an earthquake
  • a break in Earth's crust

Pregunta 43

Pregunta
Which type of seismic wave is the fastest?
Respuesta
  • Primary waves
  • Secondary Waves
  • Surface waves

Pregunta 44

Pregunta
What are the three types of seismic waves?
Respuesta
  • primary
  • secondary
  • surface
  • normal
  • reverse
  • strikeslip
  • transform
  • divergent
  • convergent

Pregunta 45

Pregunta
What are the three types of rivers listed from oldest to youngest?
Respuesta
  • straight, braided, meandering
  • meandering, braided, straight
  • braided, straight, meandering
  • braided, meandering, straight

Pregunta 46

Pregunta
A contour line is a line on a map joining points of equal height above or below sea level
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 47

Pregunta
How do you know if a rock is fluorescent?
Respuesta
  • shining a UV light on it
  • putting it in the dark
  • it had bright colors

Pregunta 48

Pregunta
Scratching rocks together determines the hardness
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 49

Pregunta
There is 180 degrees between each pole and the equator.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 50

Pregunta
In what hemisphere does the Coriolis effect turn clockwise?
Respuesta
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Southern Hemisphere
  • Western Hemisphere
  • Eastern Hemisphere

Pregunta 51

Pregunta
In what hemisphere does the Coriolis effect turn counterclockwise?
Respuesta
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Southern Hemisphere
  • Eastern Hemisphere
  • Western Hemisphere

Pregunta 52

Pregunta
What is a space rock called when it enters Earth's atmosphere?
Respuesta
  • meteor
  • asteroid
  • comet
  • meteorite

Pregunta 53

Pregunta
What type of thunderstorm is created by an extreme change in temperature over land vs water?
Respuesta
  • seabreeze thunderstorm
  • single cell
  • supercell
  • multicell

Pregunta 54

Pregunta
In which direction does weather often move in the United States?
Respuesta
  • North to south
  • South to north
  • East to west
  • West to east

Pregunta 55

Pregunta
What occurs when oceanic crust and continental crust collide and the oceanic crust goes under? Pick three.
Respuesta
  • earthquakes
  • volcano
  • subduction zone
  • mountains
  • island

Pregunta 56

Pregunta
Which zone is below the water table?
Respuesta
  • Zone of saturation
  • Zone of aeration

Pregunta 57

Pregunta
Which zone is above the water table?
Respuesta
  • Zone of saturation
  • Zone of aeration

Pregunta 58

Pregunta
What is caused by water expanding when it freezes?
Respuesta
  • ice wedging
  • cross-cutting
  • glaciers

Pregunta 59

Pregunta
A map legend/key explains what the symbols on the map represent.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 60

Pregunta
What process breaks down rocks?
Respuesta
  • erosion
  • weathering
  • mass movement

Pregunta 61

Pregunta
What process moves the broken down material on Earth's surface?
Respuesta
  • weathering
  • erosion
  • mass movement

Pregunta 62

Pregunta
What is the most permeable layer through which water flows easily?
Respuesta
  • aquifer
  • well
  • bedrock
  • humus

Pregunta 63

Pregunta
If the wind is blowing from the west, which side of the sand dune will be the steepest?
Respuesta
  • north
  • south
  • east
  • west

Pregunta 64

Pregunta
Which is an example of a mixture?
Respuesta
  • soup
  • salt
  • sugar
  • water

Pregunta 65

Pregunta
Which of the following is a compound?
Respuesta
  • water
  • table salt
  • sucrose
  • soil
  • air
  • iron
  • oxygen

Pregunta 66

Pregunta
What are the four agents of erosion?
Respuesta
  • wind
  • water
  • gravity
  • glaciers
  • sun
  • soil
  • sand

Pregunta 67

Pregunta
What causes erosion and weathering to break down rocks?
Respuesta
  • mechanical(physical) weathering
  • chemical weathering

Pregunta 68

Pregunta
Soil's A Horizon includes a concentration of organic matter and humus and is dark in color.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 69

Pregunta
Soil's B Horizon is enriched with clay and minerals, is under A horizon, is less-developed and hardpan.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 70

Pregunta
What are some characteristics of the C horizon?
Respuesta
  • under B horizon
  • above B horizon
  • above solid bedrock
  • below solid bedrock
  • contains weathered plant material
  • contains clay and minerals

Pregunta 71

Pregunta
How do sand dunes form?
Respuesta
  • from the wind blowing sand
  • sand being washed onto the beach by waves

Pregunta 72

Pregunta
Carrying capacity explains that the faster the flowing wate,r the more the load can take
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 73

Pregunta
What is the load of a stream?
Respuesta
  • all materials the water carries
  • the volume of the water
  • the velocity of the water in the stream
  • everything in a stream

Pregunta 74

Pregunta
What is a water table?
Respuesta
  • upper boundary of the zone of saturation
  • ground water flow in permeable layer
  • area surrounding a pumping cell and supplies groundwater to recharge the cell

Pregunta 75

Pregunta
What is the zone of contribution?
Respuesta
  • upper boundary of the zone of saturation
  • ground water flow in permeable layer
  • area surrounding a pumping cell and supplies groundwater to recharge the cell

Pregunta 76

Pregunta
What does the Richter Scale measure?
Respuesta
  • magnitude
  • intensity
  • vibrations
  • movement

Pregunta 77

Pregunta
What does the Mercalli Scale measure?
Respuesta
  • magnitude
  • intensity
  • vibrations
  • movement

Pregunta 78

Pregunta
Where do most volcanos occur?
Respuesta
  • plate boundaries
  • on land
  • in the ocean
  • the middle of plates

Pregunta 79

Pregunta
Extrusive igneous rocks reach the surface through volcanos and cool quickly.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 80

Pregunta
Intrusive igneous rocks are glassy and have small crystals like obsidian.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 81

Pregunta
What is a hot spot?
Respuesta
  • unusually hot region's of Earth's mantle where high-temperature plumes of mantle material rise toward the surface
  • where two plates meet and collide and form a volcano
  • Where an active volcano is located
  • concentrated magma in the mantle

Pregunta 82

Pregunta
How were the Hawaiian Islands formed?
Respuesta
  • from a hot spot
  • plate boundary
  • convection currents

Pregunta 83

Pregunta
Which of the following are part of a wave?
Respuesta
  • fetch
  • trough
  • crest
  • wave length
  • wave height
  • breaking point
  • backwash
  • swash

Pregunta 84

Pregunta
What happens at the Mid-Ocean Ridge and Earth's crust?
Respuesta
  • seafloor spreading
  • subduction
  • volcanos
  • earthquakes

Pregunta 85

Pregunta
What is a subduction zone?
Respuesta
  • Where denser crust sinks back into the asthenosphere
  • Where denser crust sinks back into the lithosphere
  • Where lighter crust sinks back into the asthenosphere
  • Where lighter crust sinks back into the lithosphere

Pregunta 86

Pregunta
There is no difference between oceanic and continental crust.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 87

Pregunta
What are the different types of plate boundaries?
Respuesta
  • transform
  • convergent
  • divergent
  • normal
  • reverse
  • fault
  • line

Pregunta 88

Pregunta
When plates collide, the denser plate sinks back into the asthenosphere, or if with continents, folded mountains form.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 89

Pregunta
How is geologic time broken down?
Respuesta
  • era
  • eon
  • period
  • epoch
  • time
  • century
  • decade

Pregunta 90

Pregunta
Super positioning says that the oldest rock layer is on the bottom, and they get older going up.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 91

Pregunta
What is a rock layer that is out of place and a disruption to the order?
Respuesta
  • unconformity
  • nonconformity
  • index fossil
  • key bed
  • disconformity

Pregunta 92

Pregunta
What is uniformitarianism?
Respuesta
  • The processes and natural laws that occur on Earth now, have always been at work on the Earth
  • The processes and natural laws that occur on Earth now, have not always been at work on the Earth
  • That every rock layer at the same depth is the same throughout the Earth
  • That every rock layer at the same depth is not the same throughout the Earth

Pregunta 93

Pregunta
Tides on Earth are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 94

Pregunta
What is the amount of salt in minerals in ocean water?
Respuesta
  • salinity
  • saltiness
  • density
  • sodium levels

Pregunta 95

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What is an ocean current?
Respuesta
  • the large movement of a wave in one direction
  • the rising and falling of sea level

Pregunta 96

Pregunta
What happens in a convection current?
Respuesta
  • warm air rises, and cold air sinks
  • warm air sinks, and cold air rises

Pregunta 97

Pregunta
How long is a solar year in days? (approximately)
Respuesta
  • 365
  • 24
  • 12
  • 248
  • 60

Pregunta 98

Pregunta
What type of lava does a shield volcano eject?
Respuesta
  • rhyolitic
  • basaltic

Pregunta 99

Pregunta
What type of lava does a composite volcano eject?
Respuesta
  • rhyolitic
  • basaltic

Pregunta 100

Pregunta
What type of lava does a cinder volcano elect?
Respuesta
  • rhyolitic
  • basaltic

Pregunta 101

Pregunta
What theory is accepted for the origin of our universe?
Respuesta
  • The Big Bang theory
  • Steady State
  • Creation theory
  • Oscillating universe
  • Eternal inflation

Pregunta 102

Pregunta
A solstice is when the sun reaches the highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, winter and summer solstice are the shortest and longest days.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 103

Pregunta
The day when daytime and night are of approximately equal duration is an equinox.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 104

Pregunta
How can we tell how old a fossil is?
Respuesta
  • relative dating
  • radioactive dating
  • comparative dating
  • location dating

Pregunta 105

Pregunta
What elements are used for radioactive dating?
Respuesta
  • Uranium-238
  • Carbon-14
  • Oxygen-10
  • Hydrogen-2

Pregunta 106

Pregunta
Mendeleev is the father of geology
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 107

Pregunta
How important are certain organisms that lived on Earth but no longer live here to geologic time?
Respuesta
  • They can be found in fossils in rock layers and show how old the rock layer is.
  • They have no importance.
  • They are not shown in old rock layers because they no longer exist.

Pregunta 108

Pregunta
Why is tyrannosaurus rex an important fossil to find? Choose the most important
Respuesta
  • It is an index fossil to show how old the rock layer is
  • They help us learn about the time of dinosaurs
  • There is no importance

Pregunta 109

Pregunta
What is cross-cutting of rock formations that Hutton discovered?
Respuesta
  • When one type of rock cuts through other rocks, it had to form after the rocks that it cuts.
  • When one type of rock cuts through other rocks, it had to form before the rocks that it cuts.

Pregunta 110

Pregunta
Rock layering is important in understanding the passing of time in Earth and measuring it, because different layers contain different fossils and types of soil.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 111

Pregunta
How does density affect the movement of warm and cold ocean water?
Respuesta
  • Warm water rises to the surface and then cold water sinks to the bottom, when heated up this deep water rises and the warm water cools and sinks.
  • Cold water rises to the surface and then warm water sinks to the bottom, when cooled this deep water rises and the cold water warms and sinks.
  • Warm and cool water have the same density and there is no movement between

Pregunta 112

Pregunta
Sparks of electricity from water droplets blowing apart generates lightning in a thunderstorm.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 113

Pregunta
What type of wind moves from California towards New York?
Respuesta
  • prevailing westerlies
  • prevailing easterlies

Pregunta 114

Pregunta
How does a rain drop form?
Respuesta
  • water droplets collide and become too heavy for the cloud to hold
  • droplets of water group together

Pregunta 115

Pregunta
What process changes something from a liquid to a gas?
Respuesta
  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • Conduction
  • Convection
  • sublimation

Pregunta 116

Pregunta
What process changes something from a gas to a liquid?
Respuesta
  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • conduction
  • convection
  • sublimation

Pregunta 117

Pregunta
What process transfers energy through colliding materials?
Respuesta
  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • conduction
  • convection
  • sublimation

Pregunta 118

Pregunta
What process transfers energy through the flow of a heated substance?
Respuesta
  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • conduction
  • convection
  • sublimation

Pregunta 119

Pregunta
What process changes something from a solid to a gas?
Respuesta
  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • conduction
  • convection
  • sublimation

Pregunta 120

Pregunta
A cold front includes clouds and rain.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 121

Pregunta
A warm front causes thunderstorms.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 122

Pregunta
What are the main stages of the Star Cycle?
Respuesta
  • nebula
  • protostar
  • star
  • red giant
  • white dwarf
  • gas giants
  • terrestrial
  • planetary nebula

Pregunta 123

Pregunta
Spring tide occurs during a full moon and it has the highest high tide and the lowest low tides.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False
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