Geology Test

How is the outer core of Earth different from the inner core?

• The outer core is solid, and the inner core is liquid.

• The outer core is liquid, and the inner core is solid.

• The outer core is made of nickel, and the inner core is made of iron.

• The outer core is made of iron and the inner core is made of nickel.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

The flow chart below shows how a metamorphic rock can change into a sedimentary rock.

Which term should replace the question mark?

• Cooling

• Melting

• Cementation

• Weathering

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Erosion is a process that slowly changes rocks. Which of the following most likely causes pebbles in a stream to erode?

• Flowing water

• Force of gravity

• Movement of ice

• Freezing and thawing

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Idea states that broken pieces of lithosphere are in slow, constant motion due to convection currents in mantle.

• Continental Drift Theory

• asthenosphere

• Theory of Plate Tectonics

• Pangaea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The layers of the geosphere include

• inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust

• outer core, inner core, middle core, and mantle

• mantle, outer core, and crust

• mantle, outer core, middle core, crust

Sections of the Earth that causes plate tectonics to occur.

• continent

• magma

• conduction

• mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Relatively soft layer of the mantle which we float on.

• contnent

• asthenosphere

• continent

• Pangaea

Idea that the continents were once joined together in one giant land mass before they broke apart and moved.

• Theory of Plate Tectonics

• Pangaea

• Continent

• Continental Drift Theory

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Process that "powers' plate tectonics.

• conduction

• convection

• continent

• mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3