Cumulative Exam — Cumulative exam Answers

Which statement describes Earth?

Which effect of long-term environmental change is the driving force behind evolution?

Which statement describes earthquakes?

A college student has been assigned to write captions for a new textbook on gravity and motion. This is one of the pictures from the textbook.

Which explanation provides support for continental drift theory?

Who rediscovered Aristarchus’s model of a heliocentric solar system?

Which statement describes what is gained or lost during radioactive decay?

The images show sedimentary layers before and after they were shifted by a geologic event.

By which mechanism does older oceanic rock move at a ridge?

Which process of sedimentary rock formation occurs last?

Study the image.

Which three are formed due to compression?

Which two scientists’ theories supported the general consensus of the people and religious teachings of the time?

Jasmine is late to science class and misses the very beginning of notes for the day. These are Jasmine’s notes:–Round objects that orbit the Sun–Not large enough to have enough gravitational pull to clear the path of their orbit–4 known in the Kuiper Belt (Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and Pluto)–1 in the asteroid belt (Ceres)Jasmine later copied the title of the notes from a friend. What title did Jasmine most likely copy?

Which two large landmasses formed when Pangaea first started to separate?

Which example best illustrates a method to show differences among Earth’s layers?

Which phrases describe S waves?

The cryosphere is part of which sphere of the Earth system?

In addition to Earth, which planet has evidence of water on the surface?

Sara has made this list to summarize what she learned in science class today: 1. Core 2. Radiation zone 3. Convection zone What is the best title for her list?