ESS Intro Unit Review

What does GPS stand for?

• Glacial Positioning System

• Global Placement System

• Global Positioning System

• Global Placement Satellites

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

What is the goal of Science?

• To provide answers to all questions

• To Collect Data

• To better understand the natural world

• All of these choices

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-PS1-3

What symbol do we use to indicate a basin on a topographic map?

• Contour Intervals

• Map Legends

• Hatch lines pointing inward

• Index Contours

The equator, and lines that run parallel to it are called...

• lines of borealis

• lines of longitude

• lines of latitude

• lines of contour

A satellite in geostationary orbit...

• is not as good for communications as satellites in other types of orbits.

• appears to stay in the sky over the same spot.

• makes one complete orbit around Earth every 90 minutes.

• is best for observing polar regions.

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What do constructive forces do?

• create streams

• cause landforms to build up

• cause landforms to wear down

• create faults

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The oldest ocean basin's crust is _________ old.

• 65 million years

• 180 million years

• 180 thousand years

• 4.4 billion years

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Which of the following is NOT an important force of erosion?

• heat

• wind

• water

• ice

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A feature would appear bigger on a map with a scale of 1:24,000 than on one with a scale of 1:100,000.

• True

• False

Maps are ____ representations of a _____ Earth.

• 1D, 2D

• 3D, 4D

• 3D, 2D

• 2D, 3D