When sedimentary rock is exposed to heat and pressure, what does it change into?

What is choice d?

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

What is choice b?

What kind of texture does igneous rock have when magma cools slowly?

What is choice a?

What kind of rock is formed from lava that cools on the Earth’s surface?

What is choice d?

The process by which sediment is dropped and comes to rest.

What is deposition?

Which of the following words describes change according to the principle of uniformitarianism?

a) sudden

b) rare

c) global

d) gradual

What is choice d?

Molten rock that squeezes into existing rock and cools is called a(n)

a) fold

b) fault

c) intrusion

d) unconformity

What is choice c?

Fossils are most often preserved in

a) ice

b) amber

c) asphalt

d) rock

What is choice d?

Scientists assign relative ages by using

a) absolute dating

b) the principle of superposition

c) radioactive half-lives

d) carbon 14 dating

What is choice b?

This is because most organisms, such as those that have soft body parts, did not become fossils, and many fossils have yet to become discovered.

Why is the fossil record incomplete?

Continental drift is the idea that ______________.

a. the continents are the only solid surface on the earth

b. objects that fall into the ocean drift between the continents

c. ocean waves push the continents over the surface of the earth

d. the continents were once joined together to form a large land mass

What is choice d?

Which of the following is most likely to occur at a transform plate?

a. earthquakes      c. mountain formation

b. volcanoes      d. All of the above.

What is choice a?

Plate tectonics refers to the theory that __________.

a. the continents float on the oceans like plates

b. each of the continents on the earth is also called a plate

c. the surface of the earth is made of large plates that cannot move

d. the surface of the earth is made up of large plates that have moved over time

What is choice d?

Which one of the following statements is TRUE?

a. The earth's crust moves around but is never destroyed.

b. New crust is always forming on the top of large mountains.

c. Old crust falls into the oceans and is destroyed over time.

d. Old crust is destroyed and new crust is formed over time.

What is choice d?

Plate tectonics is the theory that sections of the earth's crust ____________.

a. were hot and wrinkled as they cooled to form continents, mountains, and     oceans

b. have moved toward and away from each other to form continents, mountains, and oceans

c. have collapsed, forming oceans between the continents

d. are floating in the oceans and are called continents

What is choice b?

Large blobs of magma that harden in the air are called

What is choice b?

Molten rock deep underground often gathers in a

What is choice b?

When you talk about the viscosity of lava, you are talking about

What is choice b?

Which type of pyroclastic material gets its name from a word that means “little stones”?

What is choice d?

Which seismic waves do the greatest damage?

What is choice a?

The boundary where land and ocean meet is known as the

a. shoreline.                    b.  abyssal zone.

c.  submarine canyon.      d.  benthos.

What is choice a?

The ocean zone that has to withstand the most change due to tides is known as the

      a.  neritic zone.            b.  oceanic zone.

      c.  abyssal zone.            d.  intertidal zone.

What is choice d?

Organisms that live on the ocean floor are called

      a.  marine mammals            b.  plankton

      c.  nekton                           d.  benthos

What is choice d?

Forms of ocean life that swim are called

      a.  Nemo’s friends.            b.  nekton.

      c.  little swimmers.            d.  plankton.

What is choice b?

One of the most abundant elements in the ocean is

a) potassium

b) calcium

c) chlorine

d) magnesium

What is choice c?

Magma that has a high content of this type of mineral tends to cause explosive eruptions.

What is silica?