5 Written Questions

1. the color that can form when the sun is setting on the horizon/ocean line
2. the transportation of material by a mobile agent such as water, wind, or ice
3. surfaces of closely packed angular or rounded rock fragments, created by deflation
4. lives in salt water and goes to fresh water to breed (salmon)
5. geology, oceanogrophy, astronomy, and meterology

5 Matching Questions

1. 1 AMU
2. Adiabatic cooling
3. geologic time scale
4. 13.7 billion
5. element

1. a subdivides Earth history into units and provides a meaningful time frame for the events of the geolgic past
2. b The age of the universe
3. c the mass of proton
4. d a substance that cannot be broken into simpler substances
5. e when the temperature of air goes down due to a change in pressure and expansion

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere
   1. ventifact
   2. latent heat
   3. green
   4. greenhouse effect
2. the process by which softer, less weather resistant rocks wear away and leave harder, more weather resistant rocks behind
   1. continental slope
   2. Differential weathering
   3. scientific hypothesis
   4. Adiabatic cooling
3. an atom in an charged condition, positive or negative
   1. erosion
   2. China
   3. 1 AMU
   4. ion
4. 
   a pattern of cracks that forms during cooling of molten rock to generate columns
   1. Eluviation
   2. dew point
   3. Cold Front
   4. columnar jointing
5. oil, and coal
   1. examples of non-renewable energy
   2. Tropic of Cancer
   3. Lamprey eel
   4. St. Lawrence River

5 True/False Questions

1. ventifact → any rock carved or shaped by the wind

   True        False

2. outer core → The way a mineral reflects light, metallic, earthy, waxy, greasy, vitreous (glassy), adamantine (or brilliant, diamond)

   True        False

3. Tropic of Cancer → sun is directly over this on the winter solstice

   True        False

4. allotrope → two substances made of the same element (same number of neutrons) but with different atomic arrangments

   True        False

5. oceanography → the science that invloves the application of all sciences in a comprehensive and interrelated study of the oceans

   True        False