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Quarter 2 Exam Earth
Renewable/Nonrenewable energy, Carbon forms, Nitrogen Cycle, Volcanoes/Plates
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Forms of carbon found on the Earth | limestone, carbonic acid, carbon dioxide. |
| Activities that humans do disturb the nitrogen cycle | burn fossil fuels and over use fertilizers. |
| Process where plants change nitrogen to a usable form | nitrogen fixation |
| Examples of renewable energy sources | trees, wind, sun, and wind |
| How does the burning of fossil fuels affect the atmosphere? | adds more heat and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. |
| What is an environmental benefit of converting to solar energy? | a decrease in air pollution |
| Which gas accounts for the largest percentage of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere? | water vapor |
| Why would someone place used oil into a container to be properly disposed of? | the oil can be recycled to protect the environment. |
| Which would most likely occur if more ethanol-burning vehicles were produced and used by consumers in the United States? | Renewable energy sources would be used more for fuel sources. |
| Volcanoes that form far from any plate boundaries. | Hot Spot |
| Volcanic fragments thrown into air during a volcanic eruption | tephra |
| What are just some of the damages that they create? | ash can bury entire towns, damage crops, clog car engines, cause landslides, avalanches of mud, melted snow, and rock, and lava sets fires and burying everything in it’s path |
| A renewable energy source that volcanoes produce. | geothermal energy |
| Layer(s) of the Earth interaction results in the formation of mountains | asthenosphere and lithosphere |
| Volcanism that occurs under water along mid-ocean ridges | rift volcanism (diverging) |
| Tectonic-plate movement cause the formation of mountain ranges due to | the convection currents in the mantle forcing two plates to collide. |
| The area of the Himalayan Mountains were built up by what phenomenon? | convergence of continental plates. |
| Mantle | is the largest layer between the crust and outer core. |
| Alfred Wegener | the first person to introduce the idea of the continents moving around the surface of the Earth. |
| Mountains are most likely formed due to | the movement of plates |
| The boundary of convergent tectonic plates exhibit different geological features at different locations. Those differences are | that under the ocean a trench will form, while on a continent a mountain will form. |
| Which type of plate boundary will new crust be formed? | divergent |
| What process must occur in the mantle to make the plates move? | convection currents |
| Most of the volcanoes that make up the "Ring of Fire" were formed near | subduction zones |
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