APES Final Exam Review - Unit 1

The San Andrea's Fault in California is which type of boundary?

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Subductive Zone
• Transform

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The layer of soil which the topsoil is found.

• Horizon A
• Horizon B
• Horizon C
• Horizon D or R

Which horizon, which closely resembles the parent material, is made up of partially weathered rocks?

• Horizon A

• Horizon B

• Horizon C

• Horizon D or R

In which horizon is most of the partially decomposed material known as HUMUS?

• Horizon O

• Horizon B

• Horizon C

• Horizon D or R

The most common gas in the atmosphere (78%).

• Nitrogen
• Oxygen
• Carbon Dioxide
• Trace gases

Where the naturally occuring good ozone layer is located

• troposphere

• mesosphere

• stratosphere

• thermosphere

The Coriolis effect is a result of the Earth's 

• gravitation
• temperature
• rotation
• curvature

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The thin layer of gases surrounding Earth

• atmosphere
• biosphere
• hydrosphere
• lithosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Sea surface temperature changes greater than .5^oC for greater than 5 months across the central tropical Pacific Ocean are known as

• the arctic effect

• the get stream

• a typhoon

• El Nino-Southern Oscillation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Plate movement occurs in which part of Earth's crust?

• Core

• Mantle

• Upper mantle

• lithosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3