7th Grade Science Standard Check In

Cattle egrets forage (feed) in fields among cattle. The egret gets easy access to flying insects stirred up by the cattle, and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.

• mutualism
• commensalism
• competition
• parasitism

A tapeworm lives in the intestine of a cat absorbing nutrients through its skin. A tapeworm and a cat have this type of relationship.

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• competition

What type of symbiosis?  Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers.  The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

The process by which metamorphic rocks are formed...

• heat and pressure
• erosion and deposition
• melting and cooling

Cooling & crystalization produce

• igneous rocks
• metamorphic rocks
• sedimentary rocks

What type of boundary is formed when plates collide?

• convergent
• horizontal
• divergent
• transform

What type of boundary is formed when plates separate?

• convergent
• horizontal
• divergent
• transform

What two processes are essential to the creation of sedimentary rock?

• sedimentation and lithification

• cementation and sedimentation

• compaction and cementation

• creation and dictation

What would happen when the slope of the tray increased?

• The speed of the water and the amount of erosion would increase.

• The speed of the water and the amount of erosion would decrease.

• The speed of the water would increase, while the amount of erosion would decrease.

• The speed of the water would decrease, while the amount of erosion would increase.

Granite forms when liquid magma slowly cools within Earth’s crust. If the granite is exposed to intense heat and pressure, it can change to gneiss. Which type of change takes place when granite turns into gneiss?

• Sedimentary rock changes to igneous rock.

• Igneous rock changes to metamorphic rock

• Metamorphic rock changes to igneous rock

• Sedimentary rock changes to metamorphic rock