Unit Test — Cumulative exam Answers

Which characteristic is used to classify metamorphic rocks as foliated or non-foliated?

Which period belongs to the Paleozoic era and not the Cenozoic era?

What occurs when Earth’s shadow covers the moon?

Which statement explains what happens to older crust during seafloor spreading?

According to the theory of plate tectonics, which is one feature that plates carry?

Which coal field location is related to coal fields in the United States and supports the theory of continental drift?

Which is one source of the sediments that form sedimentary rocks?

Which sedimentary rock is burned to produce energy?

What type of stress occurs when plates move apart?

Which characteristic is one of the three main characteristics used to classify igneous rocks?

Which is the final event that occurs when a star is forming?

Which statement describes the law of superposition?

Which event is most likely if an index fossil is found in a layer at location 1, but the layer and index fossil are not found at location 2 nearby, which is known to be the same relative age?

What was discovered in 1965 and is believed to be leftover thermal energy from the big bang?

Which diagram correctly describes the changes that occur as a small piece of rock falls from space and hits the Earth?

The image shows a type of fault.

What term generally describes small chunks of rocks and debris in space?

How long ago do scientists believe the continents formed Pangaea?

Scientists believe that some mass extinction events are possibly caused by asteroids, volcanic activity, or climate change. How many mass extinctions have occurred on Earth in the last 4.6 billion years?

Why do scientists study seismographs?