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Which term names the shortest geologic time frame?Responses epoch epoch period period era era eon
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QuestionWhich isotope has a relatively short half-life? Responses carbon-14 carbon-14 uranium-238 uranium-238 oxygen-16
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Which knowledge is radiometric dating based upon?Responses the name of the rocks the name of the rocks the weight of the samples
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Which information can be obtained by using only relative dating methods?Responses determining the order of rock layers
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.Eggs of the gypsy moth were imported from Europe by a scientist. He hoped that by
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.Iowa is a state rich in Native American lore. Many tribes, including the Sioux, have
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.The dry, frozen soil of the tundra cannot support large plants. At times the very top
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.A cold-blooded animal is an animal whose body temperature changes as the temperature
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Choose the correct answer.If you retold a story by telling only the important points, you would be Blank Space__________.
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.Iowa leads the nation in the production of corn. The state is among the leaders in the
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.Desert plants have special adaptations for getting and storing water. Stems of cacti
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.The fishline worm appears small and harmless as it curls under rocks in deep water.
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Read the selection and use it to answer the question.Bull Run Union attack on Richmond ends in rout at Bull Run Washington, July
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Choose the best answer.Which of these presents the main points of a story? Question 1 options: both of these summary paraphrase
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.The three major climate zones on the earth are the polar, tropical, and temperate
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.The purga is a violent blizzard that sweeps over northern Siberia in the winter.
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.The fertile fields of Iowa are due to the glaciers that deposited rich soil as they
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.Rabies is a virus that enters the human body through animal bites. An infected animal
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.Many different kinds of trees such as cypress, pine, elm, ash, and hickory are native
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.In the early 1900s, the gypsy moth became a serious threat in the United States. The
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Read the selection and use it to answer the question."The Johnstown Flood" In the spring of 1889, the heavy rains had damaged
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Read the selection and use it to answer the question."Bats" Why do so many people think that bats are bad? Scientists have been
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Choose the best summary of this paragraph.In 1986, Voyager 2, a spacecraft from Earth, flew very near Uranus. It sent pictures
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Choose the correct answer.If you used your own words to retell a story, you would be Blank Space__________. Question 1 options:
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What type of sentence is this?The cola can has red letters. Question 27 options: declarative exclamatory interrogative
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What type of sentence is this?Please pass the salt. Question 26 options: interrogative declarative exclamatory imperative
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What type of sentence is this?Say "thank you." Question 25 options: imperative exclamatory declarative interrogative
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Choose the proper punctuation to complete this sentence.Jeremy does not play football Question 22 options: . ? !
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Is the phrase that appears in all capital letters a cause or an effect?Roots and tree stumps covered the land, SO NEW ENGLAND
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Is the phrase that appears in all capital letters a cause or an effect?THOMAS HOOKER COULD NOT AGREE WITH PURITAN LEADERS. His
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Question 17 options:Type a word with a suffix to define the words. full of tricks
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Is this sentence simple or compound?That flag on your shirt is small. Question 15 options: compound sentence simple sentence
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Is this sentence simple or compound?The giraffe is the tallest animal at the zoo. Question 14 options: compound sentence simple
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Is this sentence simple or compound?The turtle crawls slowly, yet the snail is even slower. Question 13 options: simple sentence
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Which question does the capitalized portion of this sentence answer?The seventeen-year-old Italian, Marco Polo, traveled TO ASIA
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Which question does the capitalized portion of this sentence answer?TWENTY YEARS LATER, another group of Vikings made the voyage
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Which question does the capitalized portion of this sentence answer?We know about Vikings THROUGH STORIES CALLED "SAGAS."
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Choose the word that best fits this description.does not make sense Question 7 options: sensible nonsense incense
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What does this group of words form?Was commander of the Continental Army. Question 6 options: run-on sentence complete sentence
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What does this group of words form?General Washington joined the Continental Congress. Question 5 options: complete sentence
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What does this group of words form?Elected president in 1789. Question 4 options: sentence fragment complete sentence run-on
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Is the statement a fact, an opinion, or an idiom?The recipe calls for flour, eggs, and sugar. Question 3 options: opinion idiom
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Is the statement a fact, an opinion, or an idiom?That assignment was for the birds. Question 2 options: fact opinion idiom
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Read the selection and use it to answer the question.Excerpt from "Kind Little Edmund" E. Nesbit Edmund was a boy. The people
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What is one example of pre-exising marine life?Responses dinosaur egg dinosaur egg leaf imprint leaf imprint bird bone bird bone
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Which type of environment is ideal for the preservation of a footprint?Responses mud mud water water rock rock sand
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Which example is a trace fossil?Responses wooly mammoth tusk wooly mammoth tusk dinosaur footprint dinosaur footprint insect in
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Which example is a body fossil?Responses shrimp burrow shrimp burrow claw print claw print dinosaur nest dinosaur nest leaf
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What does a fossil of an ancient shark in Kansas indicate?Responses Sharks used to live on land. Sharks used to live on land.
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If a layer was deposited but does not appear in the rock record, what has occurred?Responses folding folding eruption eruption
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In the Grand Canyon, each rock layer has a matching layer on the wall across the canyon showing how far the layers extend in all
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Upper portions of the Grand Canyon show undisturbed horizontal layers of sedimentary rock.Which of Steno’s principles helps
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QuestionWhat can be assumed about the layers in areas 2 and 4? Responses The layers were originally horizontal. The layers were
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Which statement is true of a rock layer that has had another rock layer deposited on top of it?Responses It is younger than the
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Sea level changes occur at a rate of 10 m per 1,000 years. Regional erosion occurs at a rate of 2 m per 1,000 years. Uplift
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Uplift occurs at a rate of 0.1 m per 1,000 years.How much will the uplift change over 1,000,000 years? Responses 0.1 m 0.1 m 100
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Regional erosion occurs at a rate of 2 m per 1,000 years.How much regional erosion will occur over 1,000,000 years? Responses 20
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Sea level changes occur at a rate of 10 m per 1,000 years.How much will the sea level change over 10,000,000 years? Responses
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Which statement best describes the geological processes throughout history?Responses Geologic processes are only similar in if
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Which choice is most likely to yield the fossils that help scientists reconstruct the Earth's biological history?Responses
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Which principle states: "Geologic processes taking place on Earth today operated similarly in the past and can be used to
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Which process is responsible for building successive rock layers on Earth?Responses faulting faulting deposition deposition
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What does the principle of faunal succession state?Responses Fossils are deposited in approximately horizontal layers and spread
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What is the primary evidence that dinosaurs existed in the past?Responses bones bones lizards that live today lizards that live
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2. How does the arrangement of the atoms in a mineral relate to its properties?
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1. Describe how minerals form.
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Which type of rock may result when sedimentary rock is exposed to extreme heat and pressure?Responses clastic clastic
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In the rock cycle, how does rock become sediment?Responses through heat and pressure through heat and pressure through
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What are minerals that are valued because they contain large amounts of a useful element called?Responses silicate silicate
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Which phrase describes the composition of the most abundant mineral compounds on Earth?Responses oxalates, oxygen, and one or
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Which is not a property of a mineral?Responses color color sharpness sharpness, magnetism magnetism cleavage cleavage
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Which statement names characteristics of a mineral?Responses It must be amorphous and have a definite chemical composition. It
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A mineral breaks into cubes when struck with a rock hammer. It also leaves a red trail when scraped against an unglazed
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Where do most meteorites come from?Responses the asteroid belt the asteroid belt the sun the sun Jupiter Jupiter stars
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Which term names the types of elements usually found in meteorites?Responses nonmetals nonmetals minerals minerals metals metals
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If igneous rock is placed under conditions of extreme heat and pressure, which type of rock will it become?Responses extrusive
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Which set of processes can transform metamorphic rock into sediment?Responses crystallization and solidification crystallization
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For sediment to be transformed into rock, which set of processes must take place?Responses crystallization and solidification
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Experimental Methods1. What materials did you use to create your model? Type your answer here:
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2. How does matter cycle and energy flow through the rock cycle?Type your answer here:
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Lab ReportRock Cycle It’s time to complete your Lab Report. Save the lab to your computer with the correct unit number, lab
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Figure out which distance corresponds to each planet and fill out the following table. Remember that Mercury is the innermost
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Here is a list of each planet’s average distance from the sun (in random order):Figure out which distance corresponds to each
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what are the planets distance from the sun
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There are eight planets in our solar system. Mercury is closest to the sun, and Neptune is the most distant. This image shows
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Quartzite is a coarse-grained rock derived from sandstone.Which type of rock is quartzite? Responses igneous igneous sedimentary
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Which type is metamorphic rock formed from limestone?Responses shale shale clay clay marble marble sandstone
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What determines whether a metamorphic rock is foliated or non-foliated?Responses the number of remaining gas molecules the
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Which kind of rock requires heat and pressure to form?Responses igneous rock igneous rock sedimentary rock sedimentary rock
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Igneous rock can be changed into which type of rock through the application of heat and pressure?Responses metamorphic rock
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A geologist finds a large rock containing a fern fossil. This kind of fern grew on land in hot, moist climates.What does this
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What are chemical sedimentary rocks formed from?Responses chemicals dissolved in water chemicals dissolved in water chemicals
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Which process turns sediment into sedimentary rock?Responses melting and cooling melting and cooling plants or animals becoming
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Which example shows how sediment forms?Responses The weight of the ocean compacts the sand together. The weight of the ocean
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What is a source of sediment?Responses fragments of other rocks fragments of other rocks chemicals and minerals dissolved in
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Basalt is a rock that cooled quickly after lava erupted through a volcano.What is the best description of its texture? Responses
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What is the scientific term for rocks formed from lava?Responses gabbro gabbro rhyolite rhyolite extrusive extrusive intrusive
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QuestionWhich statement best describes how igneous rocks are formed? Responses Layers of dirt and other rocks are pressed
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Which word names melted rock and minerals found beneath Earth's crust?Responses rhyolite rhyolite lava lava magma magma gabbro
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Which substance reaches Earth's surface and is made up of molten rock, gases, and minerals?Responses gabbro gabbro lava lava
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