Earth Science Review 5
Quiz by Ann Marie MacDonald
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- Q1Which planet's day (period of rotation) is longer than its year (period of revolution)?VenusMercuryJupiterSaturn30s
- Q2Which event is cyclic and predictable?Jupiter's apparent movement across the night skyan asteroid striking Earth's surfacea volcano erupting above a subducting tectonic platean earthquake occurring at the San Andreas Fault30s
- Q3The best evidence that Earth rotates on its axis is the changingaltitude of the noontime Sun from day to dayapparent path of a Foucault pendulumapparent path of a Foucault pendulumvelocity of Earth in its orbit30s
- Q4The curving of the planetary winds to the right in the Northern Hemisphere is evidence ofhigh and low pressure beltsthe tilt of Earth's axisEarth's revolutionthe Coriolis effect30s
- Q5Which star is cooler and less luminous than the Sun?Rigel40 Eridani BPolluxProxima Centauri30s
- Q6Seasonal changes on Earth are primarily caused by theelliptical shape of Earth's orbit around the Sunparallelism of the Sun's axis as the Sun revolves around Earthtilt of Earth's axis as Earth revolves around the Sunchanges in distance between Earth and the Sun30s
- Q7A ship is at a location of 40 degrees South 77 degrees West. Which type of surface ocean current and tectonic plate boundary are located beneath this ship?warm ocean current and a transform boundarycool ocean current and a transform boundarycool ocean current and a convergent boundarywarm ocean current and a convergent boundary30s
- Q8What best explains why, in early spring, ice remains longer on Lake Erie than on the surrounding land areas when the air temperature is above freezing?Air temperature does not affect water temperatureEnergy is needed for water to evaporateCool winds from the surrounding land cool the ice on the lakeWater has a higher specific heat than land30s
- Q9What controls the direction of movement of most surface ocean currents?varying salt content in the oceandensity differences at various ocean depthsseismic activityprevailing winds30s
- Q10Which geologic event occurred in New York State at about the same time as the extinction of dinosaurs and ammonoids?deposition of the sands and clays underlying Long Islandadvance and retreat of the last continental ice sheetformation of the Queenston Deltainitial opening of the Atlantic Ocean30s