Mid – Term Exam Review For Earth Science
1. What causes tectonic plates to move? ______
2. Where do volcanoes and earthquakes occur relative to plate boundaries? ______
3. What probably caused the dinosaurs to go extinct? ______
4. What is the colored powder resulting from rubbing a mineral against a harder surface? ______
5. What is the most useful property in identifying an unknown rock? ______
6. What mineral, when in the form of sand, can be used to manufacture glass? ______
7. What can determine the size of grains in igneous rocks? ______
8. What kind of rock is formed by the cementing of weathered materials? ______
9. What kind of rock is formed by the crystallization of magma? ______
10. What kind of rock is formed by heat and pressure (but without melting)? ______
11. Why can slate be used for roofing shingles? ______
12. If granite is subjected to high heat and pressure, what type of rock does it turn into? ______
13. Name the 3 fossil fuels. ______
14. List 2 disadvantages of using fossil fuels. ______
15. Limestone can be processed to make ______.
16. Some fuels are classified as non-renewable because they ______
17. One fossil fuel found in Virginia is ______.
18. Compared to the Rocky Mountains, are the Appalachian Mountains younger or older?
19. What region of Virginia contains the most coal? ______
20. What principle of relative dating states that the oldest rocks layers are on the bottom? ______
21. What created the folding and faulting in the Blue Ridge Mountains? ______
22. What type of plate boundary creates volcanoes and ridges on the ocean floor? ______
23. An empty 2-liter bottle is filled with sediment and water. If is shaken and then allowed to settle, what process is being modled?
______
24. What are fossils usually found in? ______
25. What type of fossil is widespread but only lived during a short geologic time frame? ______
26. What is the reference point for latitude? ______
27. What is the reference point for longitude? ______
28. What is the formula for density? ______
29. What process happens at a continental – oceanic convergent boundary? ______
30. What is a framework used to explain scientific observations? ______