1. 1 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt RocksWeatherSpace Earth’s History Other

2. 2 What type of rock contains banding, foliation and distortion?

3. 3 Metamorphic

4. 4 What type of igneous rock is lighter in color and lower in density?

5. 5 Felsic

6. 6 What sedimentary rock is clastic and made up of 0.0004 to 0.006?

7. 7 Siltstone

8. 8 What is the color and type of rock that forms oceanic crust at mid- ocean ridges?

9. 9 dark colored and igneous or mafic

10. 10 What do mineral properties depend on?

11. 11 internal arrangement of atoms

12. 12 What drives all weather?

13. 13 Unequal heating

14. 14 What does it mean when isobars are close together?

15. 15 Fast winds

16. 16 What type of front moves faster?

17. 17 Cold fronts

18. 18 Precipitation, change in temperature, and wind direction indicates what?

19. 19 The passing of a front

20. 20 What is a region of atmosphere with uniform temperature and humidity?

21. 21 An air mass

22. 22 How many degrees per hour does Earth rotate?

23. 23 15 degrees

24. 24 What does a foucault pendelum indicate?

25. 25 Earth’s rotation around the sun

26. 26 In what season is Earth closest to the sun?

27. 27 Winter

28. 28 How many moon phases are there?

29. 29 Eight

30. 30 What kind of eclipse occurs when the full moon moves into Earth’s shadow?

31. 31 Lunar eclipse

32. 32 In what period did the earliest birds evolve?

33. 33 Jurassic

34. 34 What type of trilobite existed during the Devonian?

35. 35 Phacops

36. 36 What is the most reliable method to determine whether two rock layers one hundred miles apart are the same age?

37. 37 Both layers contain the same group of index fossils

38. 38 What is supporting evidence of Pangaea?

39. 39 All the continents fit together like a puzzle

40. 40 A fossil shell contains 25% of its original amount of carbon-14. Approximately when did the animal that made the shell live?

41. 41 5,700 years ago

42. 42 What is the number one agent of erosion?

43. 43 Streams

44. 44 What always has 12 hours of daylight?

45. 45 The Equator

46. 46 What color and surface absorbs energy the best?

47. 47 Black and rough surfaces

48. 48 Which seismic wave travels faster?

49. 49 P waves

50. 50 What makes U shaped valleys?

51. 51 Glaciers