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Science ECA Study Guide Quiz
1: What is the energy recieved by earth from the sun in the form of radiation?
Hydropower
Wind Power
Solar Energy
2: What is the energy source harnessed by flowing water?
Hydropower
Wind Power
Solar Energy
3: What is the energy source harnessed by the wind?
Hydropower
Wind Power
Solar Energy
4: How does a fossil fuel form?
Forms from the uneven heating of earth by the sun.
Forms from the buried remains of plants and animals.
From scientists finding fossils.
5: What is the area in the stratosphere that recieves most of the suns radiation?
Atmosphere
Exosphere
Ozone
6: What is the Coriolis Effect?
Curving of a path of wind due to earths rotation.
A cloud near earths surface.
Transfer of energy by touch.
7: What are the three methods of energy transfer?
Conduction, Convection, Stratus
Cumulus, Cirrus, Stratus
Convection, Radiation, Conduction
8: What is conduction?
Transfer of energy by not touching.
Transfer of energy by movement.
Transfer of energy by touch.
9: What is Radiation?
Transfer of energy by movement.
Transfer of energy not by touch.
Transfer of energy by touch.
10: What is Convection?
Transfer of energy by movement.
Transfer of energy by touch.
Transfer of energy not by touch.
11: As altitude increases, what does air pressure do?
Decreases
Gets colder.
Increases
12: Cumulus clouds are___?
BIG and PUFFY.
Small and PUFFY.
Small and thin and curly.
13: Cirrus clouds are____?
Big and puffy.
Small and puffy.
Thin and curly.
14: Stratus clouds are_____?
Big and poofy.
Thin
Thin and curly.
15: Thermal Expansion is the idea that____________.
as things get hotter they expand.
the top layer is younger.
16: What are vibrations or waves that move through the ground carrying the energy released during an earthquake?
P waves
Seismic waves
S waves
17: Measurment of energy relesed by an earthquake is______?
magnitude
Primary waves
intensity
18: Effects of an earthquake and how the earthquake is felt by people is called_____?
magnitude
Seismic waves
intensity
19: What is plate techtonics?
When a techtonic plate is forced under another.
geology
A theory that helps explain the causes of earthquakes and volcanos.
20: Plate boundary where plates come together?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
21: One techtonic plate is being forced under another is_____?
divergent
subduction
22: Which part of earth contains plates?
crust
mantle
Lithosphere
23: Convectin occurs where?
asthenosphere
crust
Mantle
24: When plates slide past eachother horrizontally causing earthquakes?
subduction
transform
divergent
25: Two plates move away?
subduction
divergent
transform
26: Name all of the eras.
Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
Precambrian, 2010,cenozoic
27: What is the movement of soil from one place to another?
erosion
deposition
weathering
28: What part of earth is mostly the rocky part of earth?
atmosphere
geosphere
biosphere
29: Eroded material is dropped is called__________?
hi
deposition
erosion
30: Rocks change shape over stress is called______?
superpostion
deformation
deposition
31: Pulls a rock apart is called?
tension
convergent
32: What area of earth contains all living things and the areas they are found?
biosphere
geosphere