Name _______________________ Earth Science Unit Test Study Guide We will be taking the Earth Science unit test

on Thursday, January 31. If you can answer the following questions you will do GREAT. So study, study, study!!!! Remember to have your parents sign this before you turn it in!
1. List and describe the 4 major layers of the earth. (Sci)

2. Why are a higher percentage of lighter minerals found in the crust? (Sci)

3.

Who is Alfred Wegner? (Sci)

4. What are 3 pieces of evidence he used to propose Continental Drift? (Sci)

5. What is convection current? (Sci)

6. Draw, label and tell what occurs at the 3 types of plate boundaries? (Sci)

7. What is an earthquake? (Sci)

8. Is there a pattern where most earthquakes are found? Why or why not? (Sci)

9. What is between the crust and the mantle? (Sci)

10. Draw the rock cycle.

11. Define the following rocks: Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary (Sci)

12. Who is Sir Isaac Newton? Tell 3 things about him. (Sci)

13. What is force? (Sci)

14. What is friction? Give a real life example when you would want it and when you wouldnt. (Sci)

15. What is Newtons first law? Give a real life example of it (Sci)

16. What are the 3 types of volcanoes and describe each one.

17. What is it called when a plate goes underneath another plate?

18. What is it called when plates move away from each other?

19. What type of mountains are formed when 2 plates converge? (Sci)

20. Explain which of Newtons laws apply to a suspension bridge (be specific). (Sci)

21. Name the upper mantle.

22. Name the lower mantle. 23. What is missing at the very center of the earth?

24. The inner core appears to be _________________________. Why?

25. What are the parts of the inside of a volcano? --Know where they are located.

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