7th Science Final Review (Previously Tested Topics)

People try to conserve some resources, like fossil fuels, because they are not replaceable. Why can't these resources be replaced?

• Processes that make them take a long time.

• It is impossible to extract more from the earth.

• They must be transported long distances.

• No one can afford to buy more of them.

In all of the following examples, the quantity of the resource being used by humans is affected EXCEPT--

• fresh water used for agriculture, recreation, and tourism.

• metal ores mined and used to create building materials.

• petroleum taken from the ground and burned for fuel.

• wind power used to provide energy for homes and businesses.

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Which of the following processes is driven by the energy from Earth's interior?

• Melting of rock

• Decomposition

• Photosynthesis

• Beach erosion

To be complete and accurate, a model of how material is cycled on Earth would need to include all of the following EXCEPT--

• heat from Earth's interior.

• position and motion of Earth.

• radiation from the Sun.

• movement of air, water, and rock.

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Which of the following provides evidence for past tectonic plate motions?

• Glacial evidence has been found in areas where glaciers could not exist if the continents were in their current location.

• Ancient life forms preserved as fossils can tell us what organisms existed and where they were. Matching the fossils can show that land masses were once connected.

• Matching rock type and rock formations can show the way the continents were once attached.

• All of the above.

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By studying the distribution of different types of fossils, geologists have determined that some plates have traveled great distances. Evidence to support this comes from the fact that--

• species of organisms in the fossil record have changed over geologic time.

• the oldest known fossil, found in the deepest rock layers, represent ocean organisms.

• fossils of organisms that lived in warm climates have been found in arctic environments.

• some fossilized organisms have only been found on one continent.

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New seafloor material is formed at places in Earth's crust where--

• one tectonic plate slides beneath another and is forced downward.

• magma rises into the spaces where tectonic plates pull away from one another.

• rock is broken into pieces as tectonic plates push against one another.

• lava flow from volcanic eruptions builds up over many thousands of years.

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Which of the following surface features could be caused by moving ice, but not by moving water or wind?

• Smoothing and rounding rocks of different sizes

• Movement of sediments down a mountainside

• Transporting large boulders over many kilometers

• Carving out a canyon several kilometers long

Which observations about the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains would support the claim that exposure to weathering and erosion over time can change landforms?

• The shorter and more rounded Appalachian Mountains are more than four times older than the taller and more jagged Rocky Mountains.

• The Appalachian Mountains are composed mostly of sedimentary rocks while the Rocky Mountains also contain other rock types.

• The Appalachian Mountains are found in the eastern United States and the Rocky Mountains are found near the west coast.

• The length of the Appalachian chain is approximately 2,400 kilometers, and the Rocky Mountain chain is about twice as long.

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Fill in the chart with the information for Phosphorus.

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

16

15

Protons+Neutrons

31

2 electrons

8 electrons

5 electrons

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