Midterm Review Part 1

What was the effect of volcanoes on the Earth's early atmosphere?

• Volcanoes released gases to form the atmosphere

• Volcanoes released water vapour

• Volcanoes released gases and water vapour

• Volcanoes changed the landscape

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What gas needed to be established within the Earth's atmosphere before the atmosphere was able to absorb and maintain heat?

• Hydrogen
• Oxygen
• Nitrogen
• Carbon dioxide

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Earth's Haden atmospheric composition resulted from ____.

• volcanic eruptions
• crustal rebound
• Evapo-transpiration
• physical weathering

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What form of energy transfer causes ocean currents, air circulation, and plate tectonics?

• Conduction
• Radiant
• Convection
• Luminosity

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The early atmosphere contained a lot more water vapour than the modern atmosphere does. Where did it go?

• It condensed to form the oceans

• It escaped into space

• It was absorbed by plants

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The atmosphere of the early Earth had all of the following gases except _____________________

• carbon dioxide

• carbon monoxide

• oxygen

• water vapor

What happened to the Earth at about 4 billion years ago?

• oceans first formed

• solid rock started to form

• volcanoes showed up

• continents started to drift

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What happened on Earth at about 3.8 billion years ago?

• oceans formed

• solid rock started to form

• continents started to drift

• dinosaurs went extinct

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Around 2.2 billion years ago, bacteria started producing ________ by photosynthesis.

• oxygen
• nitrogen
• carbon dioxide
• iron oxide

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Young Earth formed a core, mantle, and crust in a process called

• dispersion

• settling

• differentiation

• accretion