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Grade 9 Tectonics
What is the name of the scientist who developed the continental drift theory?
  1. Wegener
  2. Einstein
  3. Newton
  4. Copernicus
Grade 9 Minerals
If a mineral breaks along flat or even surfaces, it has
  1. luster.
  2. fracture.
  3. cleavage.
  4. streak.
Grade 9 Tectonics
Long term earthquake predictions are mainly based on what?
  1. where an earthquake is likely to occur
  2. how much damage the next earthquake will cause
  3. when the next earthquake will occur
  4. how long the next earthquake will last
Grade 9 Tectonics

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A narrow zone, or belt, or active volcanoes that almost entirely encircles the Pacific Ocean is known as the                       .
  1. Philippine Archipelago
  2. San Andreas Belt
  3. Ring of Fire
  4. Mid-Ocean Ridge
Grade 9 Historical Geology
Which is a calendar of Earth's past?
  1. geologic time scale
  2. geometric time scale
  3. genetic time scale
  4. genealogical time scale
Grade 9 Geomorphology
Erosion is the wearing away of Earth's
  1. inner core by tectonic activity.
  2. surface by wind, glaciers, and moving water.
  3. mantle by forces of magma and gravity.
  4. crust by the pull of the Sun and the Moon.
Grade 9 Historical Geology
What is the approximate age of Earth?
  1. 3.5 billion years
  2. 4.5 billion years
  3. 3.26 million years
  4. 1 million years
Grade 9 Geomorphology
The breakup of rock due to the exposure to processes that occur on Earth's surface is called                      .
  1. mechanical weathering
  2. chemical weathering
  3. upward expansion
  4. weathering
Grade 9 Minerals
Diamond is
  1. the hardest mineral on the Mohs scale.
  2. a nonmetallic element.
  3. the only mineral with luster.
  4. an isotope of silicon.
Grade 9 Tectonics
Which of the tectonic plates is bounded by the Ring of Fire?
  1. Pacific
  2. Atlantic
  3. Antarctic
  4. African
Grade 9 Tectonics
What are the fastest-moving seismic waves produced by an earthquake called?
  1. P waves
  2. S waves
  3. Rayleigh waves
  4. Surface waves
Grade 9 Historical Geology
Which is a method of dating fossils in which the older fossils are found underneath layers of sediment of younger fossils?
  1. Carbon Dating
  2. Cyber Dating
  3. Human Dating
  4. Relative Dating
Grade 9 Geomorphology
Which of the following best describes metamorphism?
  1. one of the three classes of rocks
  2. deposition and accumulation of sediments
  3. process of altering rocks with pressure and temperature
  4. geologic process in which one type of rock changes into a new type of rock
Grade 9 Tectonics
What kind of plate boundaries form folded mountains?
  1. convergent
  2. divergent
  3. strike-slip
Grade 9 Geomorphology
Soil creep on a slope can be caused by                     .
  1. freezing and thawing
  2. rock talus
  3. limestone bedrock
  4. dry weather
Grade 9 Rocks
What type of rock is formed from heat and pressure?
  1. Sedimentary Rock
  2. Igneous Rock
  3. Metamorphic Rock
Grade 9 Earth's Layers
The type of heat flow that occurs in the mantle is                  .
  1. conduction
  2. convection
  3. radiation
  4. none of the above
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