Science Monthly Exam
  • 1. Scientist frequently use all of the following to support the theory that organisms change over time except
A) similarities in DNA.
B) similarities in early development.
C) similarities in body structure.
D) similarities in number mates.
  • 2. Which fossil is the youngest?
A) fossil B
B) fossils A and B are the same age
C) fossil C
D) fossil A
  • 3. What is the importance of studying fossils?
A) to provide information about how life and environmental conditions may have changed
B) to provide information about how previous life forms would exist in current environmental conditions
C) to provide information about current life forms and current environmental conditions
D) to provide information about how current life forms would exist in previous environmental conditions
  • 4. Fossils such as __________ provide evidence of past life and environmental conditions.
A) rocks and sand
B) hieroglyphics
C) rare minerals
D) footprints and shells
  • 5. How can fossils tell us about Earth´s past?
A) All of the statements are true.
B) Fossils can give clues of changes in the organism´s body structure over time.
C) Fossils give clues about environmental changes where the organism lived.
D) Fossils can be used to date the time period of rocks and rock layers when the organism lived.
  • 6. Which type of fossil preservation is shown?
A) carbon film
B) permineralized remains
C) trace fossil
D) original remains
  • 7. Scientists have found large groups of fossils of marine organisms on mountaintops. What does this tell scientists about the past?
A) That these organisms left the ocean and climbed to the top of an inland mountain to die.
B) That these rocks must have been moved there by some one else.
C) That these rocks were always above the surface of an ocean.
D) That these rocks were once below the surface of an ocean.
  • 8. Some scientists believe that life on Earth began about 3.5 billion years ago. What do they base this belief on?
A) the distance from the Sun to the Earth
B) the time it takes to orbit the Earth
C) the fossil record
D) the sickness of the mantle
  • 9. Some factors that increase an organism´s preservation potential are:
A) rapid burial, gentle burial, burrowing animals and hard parts
B) rock cycle processes
C) fossils
D) weathering, erosion, plate tectonics
  • 10. Petrification occurs when:
A) the body of an organism leaves an imprint in the sediment.
B) original material that includes mummified fossils and remains preserved in amber, tar pits, or ice.
C) an organism dies and the carbon in its body starts to break down.
D) an organism´s body tissues are replaced by minerals and preserve the shape of the organism´s body.
  • 11. Three different types of tectonic plate boundaries are shown. Which letter describes the type of boundary where magma rises in between two plates and reaches the surface where it eventually cools to form a new rock?
A) A and B
B) A
C) C
D) B
  • 12. The diagram that shows a transform boundary is the one of letter:
A) B
B) B and C
C) C
D) A
  • 13. Convergent boundary is a type of plate boundary in which
A) two plates slide horizontally past each other.
B) two plates move away from each other.
C) two plates move toward each other.
D) two plates move toward and away from each other.
  • 14. It is impossible to directly observe the movement of tectonic plates. In which regions in the diagram is evidence that plate movement exists.
A) Trench, Volcanic Arc, Continental Crust
B) Crust, Asthenosphere, Ocean
C) Asthenosphere, Lithosphere, Trench
D) Lithosphere, Oceanic Crust, Continental Crust
  • 15. What feature occurs where plates converge?
A) mountain ranges
B) mid-ocean ridges
C) strike slip faults
D) rift valleys
  • 16. A break in rock along which the ground has moved on either side is:
A) a sinkhole
B) a syncline
C) a fault
D) an anticline
  • 17. Earthquakes release a large amount of energy in the Earth´s crust. Where does this energy come from?
A) intense radiation from the Sun
B) the gravitational attraction of the Moon
C) the movement of tectonic plates
D) strong water currents in the ocean
  • 18. P waves are waves that
A) only travels through solids.
B) do not create motion at Earth´s surface.
C) are not originate at the earthquake focus.
D) compress and expand motion in direction of travel and have faster velocity.
  • 19. What is Pangea?
A) the name of the ancient supercontinent.
B) the name of scientist who first discovered plate tectonics.
C) the process by which tectonic plates move around the Earth.
D) a type of thick, sticky lave
  • 20. The African Rift valley is continuously expanding. What can be concluded about the past from this observation?
A) Rift valleys are a part of every continent.
B) Continents may have broken in the past as well.
C) A meteorite collided into this place.
D) Two landmasses combined to form Africa.
  • 21. What is one difference between the theory of continental drift and the theory of plate tectonics?
A) Only plate tectonics theory explains the patterns of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on Earth.
B) Only plate tectonics theory explains why mountain ranges are located where they are.
C) Only continental drift theory explains why climates on the continents have changed over time.
D) Only continental drift theory explains why the coastlines of the continents seem to match.
  • 22. Which of the following was an important part of the theory of CONTINENTAL DRIFT?
A) Old seafloor is diving back into the mantle at subduction zones.
B) Continental rocks are much older than the rocks that make up the ocean basins.
C) New seafloor is being formed at the mid-ocean ridges as the plates move apart.
D) The continents of Africa and South America were once joined together as a single landmass.
  • 23. Which statement summarizes the theory of plate tectonics?
A) Only the continents move, traveling slowly over and through Earth´s crust.
B) The continents are fixes and have always been located in their present positions.
C) Earth´s crust is made of pieces that move slowly over, against, and apart from each other.
D) All of the continents were once joined together into a single supercontinent.
  • 24. How was the theory of continental drift received by the scientific community when it was first published, and how is it regarded today?
A) It was rejected at the beginning but was later accepted.
B) It was rejected from the start and is still not accepted.
C) It was accepted from the beginning and still is today.
D) It was accepted at first but has since been rejected.
  • 25. Type of rock that is common in volcanically active regions of continental crust.
A) Metamorphic
B) Sedimentary
C) Igneous
  • 26. Asthenosphere Only
A) is divided into tectonic plates.
B) behaves like a fluid.
C) includes Earth´s crust.
  • 27. When plates move apart, magma rises through gaps or holes in the
A) mountains.
B) core.
C) crust.
D) asthenosphere.
  • 28. Seismic waves are waves of energy that travel through
A) space.
B) Earth´s surface.
C) the asthenosphere.
  • 29. Read the following scenarios. Then select the one that is least likely to produce an earthquake.
A) Seismic waves.
B) Tectonic plates movement.
C) A volcanic eruption.
D) Building falling apart.
  • 30. Which picture shows a reverse fault?
A) C
B) B
C) A
D) B and C
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