Earth Science STAAR Review

Plants are known as producers because they produce their own food.  How do producers receive the energy for this process?

• By consuming soil nutrients

• By absorbing sunlight

• By releasing water

• By producing oxygen

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What is A?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

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What is a type of chemical weathering?

• rain

• ice

• acid rain

• snow

Inner planets are mostly made of

• Gas

• Hydrogen

• Rock

• Rings

All of the following are true about fossil fuels EXCEPT:

• They are renewable resources.

• They are the remains of dead plants and animals.

• They were formed over a long period of time.

• They often contribute to pollution of the atmosphere.

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Which best describes how coal is formed?

• igneous rock exposed to weathering

• erosion of metamorphic rock

• preservation of animal fossils

• decomposition of dead plant material

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Energy produced from sunlight is called ______ energy and is considered a ______ resource.

• geothermal, nonrenewable

• solar, nonrenewable

• hydroelectric, renewable

• solar, renewable

Many types of plants grow in a forest ecosystem. How do plants affect the air that forest animals breathe?

• Plants use oxygen from the air to make food.

• Plants release pollution into the air

• Plants release energy from the sun into the air

• Plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen

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What is the primary cause of the Earth's seasons?

• The distance of Earth from the Sun

• The tilt of Earth's axis

• The shape of Earth's orbit

• The speed of Earth's rotation

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Which layer of the Earth is composed mostly of liquid iron and nickel?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Outer Core

• Inner Core