Science ECA Study Guide Quiz

1: What is the energy recieved by earth from the sun in the form of radiation?

2: What is the energy source harnessed by flowing water?

3: What is the energy source harnessed by the wind?

4: How does a fossil fuel form?

5: What is the area in the stratosphere that recieves most of the suns radiation?

6: What is the Coriolis Effect?

7: What are the three methods of energy transfer?

8: What is conduction?

9: What is Radiation?

10: What is Convection?

11: As altitude increases, what does air pressure do?

12: Cumulus clouds are___?

13: Cirrus clouds are____?

14: Stratus clouds are_____?

15: Thermal Expansion is the idea that____________.

16: What are vibrations or waves that move through the ground carrying the energy released during an earthquake?

17: Measurment of energy relesed by an earthquake is______?

18: Effects of an earthquake and how the earthquake is felt by people is called_____?

19: What is plate techtonics?

20: Plate boundary where plates come together?

21: One techtonic plate is being forced under another is_____?

22: Which part of earth contains plates?

23: Convectin occurs where?

24: When plates slide past eachother horrizontally causing earthquakes?

25: Two plates move away?

26: Name all of the eras.

27: What is the movement of soil from one place to another?

28: What part of earth is mostly the rocky part of earth?

29: Eroded material is dropped is called__________?

30: Rocks change shape over stress is called______?

31: Pulls a rock apart is called?

32: What area of earth contains all living things and the areas they are found?