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EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE LONG QUIZ
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I. True or False (Write T if the statement is true and F if it is false.)

_____1. The arguments for continental drift can also be evidences to support seafloor spreading.
_____2. The composition of oceanic crust consists primarily of basalt.
_____3. Earthquakes do occur randomly but define distinct belts (earthquake belts follow trenches, mid-oceanic ridges, transform faults).
_____4. Newly formed oceanic crust moves laterally away from the ridge with the motion like that of a conveyor belt.
_____5. Alternating high and low magnetic anomalies run parallel to mid ocean ridges.
_____6. Age of seafloor forms a symmetric pattern across the mid-oceanic ridges, age decreases with distance from the oceanic ridge.
_____7. A plate is the same as a continent.
_____8. The Himalayas is an example of Divergent plate boundary.
_____9. The oldest dated rock on Earth is only 3000 years old.
_____10. Relative dating works best for sedimentary rocks having layered arrangement of sediments.

II. Identification:
________________1. Give an evidence of Continental Drift Theory.
________________2. It is the process by which new oceanic crust is formed.
________________3. He was a geologist and became the captain of the USS Cape Johnson during the World War.
________________4. No seafloor older than __ years could be found, indicating that seafloor is constantly being created and destroyed.
________________5. When rocks cool below the __________, the minerals retain the direction of magnetization.
________________6. This states that the Earth’s outermost rigid layer is broken into discrete plates each moving more or less as a unit.
________________7. The lithosphere floats on a soft, plastic layer called _____________.
________________8. Plates moving away from each other.
________________9. Plates moving towards each other.
________________10. Plates sliding past each other.
________________11. He proposed a cycle that includes continental breakup, drifting, collision and re-assembly of the continent.
________________12. It develops when cold, dense subducting slab of lithosphere pulls along the rest of the plate behind it.
________________13. It develops as gravity pushes the lithosphere off the mid-ocean ridges and toward the subduction trenches.
________________14. The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock.
________________15. The oldest dating method which studies the successive placement of layers.
________________16. It determines if an object/event is younger or older than another object/event from history.
________________17. It determines the age of a rock/object using radiometric techniques.
________________18. It is the timeline of the History of the Earth and is based from the rock record.
________________19. Age of the Reptiles
________________20. Age of the Mammals
________________21. During this eon, most of the Earth was covered with oceans. Earth’s atmosphere was mainly carbon dioxide.
________________22. One of the first to recognize the correspondence of between rocks and time. His principles – superposition,
original horizontality, and lateral continuity became the foundation of stratigraphy – the study of layered rocks.
________________23. Steno’s law which states that the rocks on the bottom are older than the rocks on the top.
________________24. Steno’s law which states that the geologic feature which cuts another is the younger of the two features.
________________25. Steno’s law which states that inclusions found in other rocks must be older than the rock that contain them.
________________26. He is considered to be the father of German Geology.
________________27. He observed that each layer or strata of sedimentary rock contain a distinct assemblage of fossils which can be
used to establish equivalence (correlation) between rock units separated by long distances.
________________28. He recognized the utility of fossils in subdividing Geologic Time on the basis of fossils.
________________29. A sub-discipline of stratigraphy which deals with the use of fossils in establishing the relative ages of rocks.
________________30. It states that a species appears, exists for a time, and then goes extinct.
________________31. During this period, large dinosaurs roam the world. First mammals and birds appear.
________________32. Microorganisms that begin the production of free oxygen (photosynthesis).
________________33. During this period, flowering plants appear, mammals become more common, dinosaurs become extinct.
________________34. The idea that all of the Earth’s rocks formed from an all-encompassing ocean.
________________35. Name of your ELS Teacher.

III. Essay
Question: Why do we need to study Earth Science?
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