Unit 2 practice Pre-Test Quiz

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Short Answer: Please write a paragraph that compare, contrast and identify Relief and Topographic? Please use RACES to help answer the questions.

Which field of earth science would be involved in studying the surface features of Jupiter’s moons?

• a. climatology
• b. paleontology
• c. oceanography
• d. astronomy

Which scientists study the forces that make and shape the solid Earth?

• a. chemists
• b. ecologists
• c. geologists
• d. biologists

What is NOT considered a branch of Earth science?

• a. Information on past climate
• b. The way that mountains form and erode.
• c. The evolutionary history of life
• d. The way humans use language to communicate.

Which scientists study the Ocean?

• a. oceanographers
• b. Oceanology
• c. meteorologists
• d. climatologists

What is the root word meaning of ology?

• a. to write
• b.to study air
• c. to cry
• d. to study

What is the root word meaning of graph?

• a. to write
• b.to study air
• c. to cry
• d. to study

What best fit the description of someone who identify as a meteorologist.

• a. someone that study the atmosphere
• b. someone who study meters.
• c. someone that study the weather patterns, clouds, hurricanes, and tornadoes. By using radars and satellites,
• d. both a and c.

Who is sometimes called the "father of geology"?

• a. James Hutton
• b. Charles Darwin
• c. Harrison Schmitt
• d. Alfred Wegener