Science Final Study Guide

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

Questão
How are atoms structured?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 2

Questão
How do we determine the mass and number of an atom?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 3

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

Questão 4

Questão
What is an isotope?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 5

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

Questão 6

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

Questão 7

Questão
A liquid flows easily and is not easily compressible.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 8

Questão
Gases have large spaces between particles and move freely.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 9

Questão
What is Plasma?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 10

Questão
Mixtures cannot be separated easily.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 11

Questão
What are compounds?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 12

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

Questão 13

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

Questão 14

Questão
What should be on the y-axis of graphs?
Responda
  • Distance
  • Time

Questão 15

Questão
What should be on the x-axis?
Responda
  • Distance
  • Time

Questão 16

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

Questão 17

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

Questão 18

Questão
In what Type of rock can a fossil be found?
Responda
  • Sedimentary
  • Metamorphic
  • Igneous

Questão 19

Questão
Latitude lines show north & South and include the Equator.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 20

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

Questão 21

Questão
How many time zones are there?
Responda
  • 24
  • 6
  • 12
  • 36

Questão 22

Questão
What is the equator?
Responda
  • 0 degrees latitude
  • 0 degrees longitude
  • 180 degrees longitude
  • 90 degrees latitude

Questão 23

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

Questão 24

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

Questão 25

Questão
What type of river is the oldest?
Responda
  • Meandering
  • Braided
  • Anabranching

Questão 26

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

Questão 27

Questão
What is the energy released during an earthquake?
Responda
  • magnitude
  • intensity
  • seismic waves
  • aftershock

Questão 28

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

Questão 29

Questão
The quiet volcano is the shield volcano and it is round with sloping sides
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 30

Questão
Which type of volcano is the most explosive?
Responda
  • Composite
  • Shield
  • Cinder Cone

Questão 31

Questão
What causes volcanoes to explode?
Responda
  • Pressure of gases
  • Shifting of plates

Questão 32

Questão
Where is the Ring of Fire located?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 33

Questão
In what time period is the early man formed?
Responda
  • Cenozoic
  • Paleozoic
  • Mesozoic
  • Precambrian

Questão 34

Questão
What phase of the moon comes after the New Moon
Responda
  • Waxing Crescent
  • Waning Crescent
  • Waxing Quarter
  • Waning Quarter

Questão 35

Questão
What is a wave's length?
Responda
  • From crest to crest
  • From trough to crest
  • From trough to trough

Questão 36

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

Questão 37

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

Questão 38

Questão
Freshwater is denser than ocean water.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 39

Questão
What type of clouds create thunderstorms?
Responda
  • cumulonimbus
  • stratus
  • cumulus
  • cirrus
  • stratocumulus

Questão 40

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

Questão 41

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

Questão 42

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

Questão 43

Questão
Which type of seismic wave is the fastest?
Responda
  • Primary waves
  • Secondary Waves
  • Surface waves

Questão 44

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

Questão 45

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

Questão 46

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

Questão 47

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

Questão 48

Questão
Scratching rocks together determines the hardness
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 49

Questão
There is 180 degrees between each pole and the equator.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 50

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

Questão 51

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

Questão 52

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

Questão 53

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

Questão 54

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

Questão 55

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

Questão 56

Questão
Which zone is below the water table?
Responda
  • Zone of saturation
  • Zone of aeration

Questão 57

Questão
Which zone is above the water table?
Responda
  • Zone of saturation
  • Zone of aeration

Questão 58

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

Questão 59

Questão
A map legend/key explains what the symbols on the map represent.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 60

Questão
What process breaks down rocks?
Responda
  • erosion
  • weathering
  • mass movement

Questão 61

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

Questão 62

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

Questão 63

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

Questão 64

Questão
Which is an example of a mixture?
Responda
  • soup
  • salt
  • sugar
  • water

Questão 65

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

Questão 66

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

Questão 67

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

Questão 68

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

Questão 69

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

Questão 70

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

Questão 71

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

Questão 72

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

Questão 73

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

Questão 74

Questão
What is a water table?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 75

Questão
What is the zone of contribution?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 76

Questão
What does the Richter Scale measure?
Responda
  • magnitude
  • intensity
  • vibrations
  • movement

Questão 77

Questão
What does the Mercalli Scale measure?
Responda
  • magnitude
  • intensity
  • vibrations
  • movement

Questão 78

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

Questão 79

Questão
Extrusive igneous rocks reach the surface through volcanos and cool quickly.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 80

Questão
Intrusive igneous rocks are glassy and have small crystals like obsidian.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 81

Questão
What is a hot spot?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 82

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

Questão 83

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

Questão 84

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

Questão 85

Questão
What is a subduction zone?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 86

Questão
There is no difference between oceanic and continental crust.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 87

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

Questão 88

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

Questão 89

Questão
How is geologic time broken down?
Responda
  • era
  • eon
  • period
  • epoch
  • time
  • century
  • decade

Questão 90

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

Questão 91

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

Questão 92

Questão
What is uniformitarianism?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 93

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

Questão 94

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

Questão 95

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

Questão 96

Questão
What happens in a convection current?
Responda
  • warm air rises, and cold air sinks
  • warm air sinks, and cold air rises

Questão 97

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

Questão 98

Questão
What type of lava does a shield volcano eject?
Responda
  • rhyolitic
  • basaltic

Questão 99

Questão
What type of lava does a composite volcano eject?
Responda
  • rhyolitic
  • basaltic

Questão 100

Questão
What type of lava does a cinder volcano elect?
Responda
  • rhyolitic
  • basaltic

Questão 101

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

Questão 102

Questão
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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 103

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

Questão 104

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

Questão 105

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

Questão 106

Questão
Mendeleev is the father of geology
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 107

Questão
How important are certain organisms that lived on Earth but no longer live here to geologic time?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 108

Questão
Why is tyrannosaurus rex an important fossil to find? Choose the most important
Responda
  • 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

Questão 109

Questão
What is cross-cutting of rock formations that Hutton discovered?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 110

Questão
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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 111

Questão
How does density affect the movement of warm and cold ocean water?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 112

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

Questão 113

Questão
What type of wind moves from California towards New York?
Responda
  • prevailing westerlies
  • prevailing easterlies

Questão 114

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

Questão 115

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

Questão 116

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

Questão 117

Questão
What process transfers energy through colliding materials?
Responda
  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • conduction
  • convection
  • sublimation

Questão 118

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

Questão 119

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

Questão 120

Questão
A cold front includes clouds and rain.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 121

Questão
A warm front causes thunderstorms.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 122

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

Questão 123

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

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