Name: ___________________________________________

Section: __________________________________________
Part 1
Write the letter of the correct answer in the blank.
_______ 1. Is the name for all the sciences that collectively seek to understand Earth and its
neighbors in space.
_______ 2. A community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the
environment they exist in.
_______ 3. A mountain with a hole where lava (hot, liquid rock) comes from a magma chamber
under the ground.
_______ 4. The shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy
in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
_______ 5. It is the average of weather over time and space.
_______ 6. It is the total amount of water on a planet.
_______ 7. A layer of gases surrounding a planet or other material body, which is held in place
by the gravity of that body.
_______ 8. It is the solid and rigid outer layer of our planet. It includes the crust and part of the
upper mantle that contains rigid rocks.
_______ 9. It is the Earth's hard outer layer. It is less than 1% of Earth's volume. Made up of
different types of rocks: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks.
_______ 10. It is the condition of the atmosphere for a short period of time.

Choices:
A. Weather D. Earthquake G. Biome J. Hydrosphere
B. Atmosphere E. Earth Science H. Crust K. Climate
C. Volcano F. Geosphere I. Convergent L. Typhoon
Name: ________________________________________
Section: _______________________________________
Part 2
Write the letter of the correct answer in the blank.
_______ 1. He is a German meteorologist and geophysicist who formulated the first complete
statement of the continental drift hypothesis.
_______ 2. It is supercontinent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth.
_______ 3. It is the theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the
mantle.
_______ 4. A theory that explained how continents shift position on Earth's surface. This also
explained why look-alike animal and plant fossils, and similar rock formations, are found on
different continents.
_______ 5. It is the process by which heat is transferred by movement of a heated fluid such as
air or water. This results from the tendency of most fluids to expand when heated—i.e., to become
less dense and to rise as a result of the increased buoyancy.
_______ 6. It is formed when plates meet from opposite directions causing one plate to be
subducted or moved beneath the other.
_______ 7. It is a natural boundary between two oceanic plates.
_______ 8. It is formed when two tectonic plates move away from each other.
_______ 9. It is the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling
of magma at mid-ocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side.
_______ 10. It is a fault zone where two plates slide past each other horizontally.

Choices:
A. Convergent plate boundary G. Ocean trench
B. Plate tectonics H. Continental drift
C. seafloor spreading I. Alfred Lothar Wegener
D. transform boundary J. Convection
E. Pangaea K. Divergent plate boundary
F. Oceanic plate L. Mohorovicic discontinuity
Name: ______________________________________________
Section: _____________________________________________
Part 3
Write the letter of the correct answer.
_______ 1. Give one positive effect of volcanic eruption. (No repetition of answer)
_______ 2. Give one positive effect of volcanic eruption. (No repetition of answer)
_______ 3. Give one negative effect of volcanic eruption. (No repetition of answer)
_______ 4. Give one negative effect of volcanic eruption. (No repetition of answer)
_______ 5. A type of volcano in which the lava eruptions through a linear (fissure) volcanic vent.
_______ 6. A volcano produces low viscosity, runny, lava it spreads far from the source forming a volcano with
gentle slopes.
_______ 7. The hottest planet.
_______ 8. The imaginary line that runs through Earth’s poles is called its _____.
_______ 9. Earth’s axis is tilted _____ degrees.
_______ 10. When Earth is farthest in orbit from the Sun is called _______, this is during our summer.
_______ 11. When the moon is closest to Earth it is called ______.
_______ 12. When the moon is farther from Earth it is called ______.
_______ 13. When Earth is closest in orbit to the Sun is called __________, this is during our winter.
_______ 14. It is the average of weather over time and space.
_______ 15. It is the short-term (minutes to months) condition or changes in the atmosphere.
_______ 16. It is the vertical elevation of an object above a surface (such as sea level or land) of a planet or natural
satellite.
_______ 17. An effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force acting perpendicular to
the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation. On the earth, the effect tends to deflect moving objects to the
right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern and is important in the formation of cyclonic
weather systems.
_______ 18. Give one factor that affects climate. (No repetition of answer)
_______ 19. Give one factor that affects climate. (No repetition of answer)
_______ 20. Give one factor that affects climate. (No repetition of answer)

Choices:
A. Fissure volcano F. Aphelion K. Shield volcano P. Topography
B. 23.5 degrees G. Weather L. axis Q. Ocean Currents
C. Climate H. Altitude M. new land form R. Perihelion
D. ash fall I. Coriolis Effect N. destroyed structures S. Apogee
E. Venus J. fertile soil O. Perigee T. Prevailing Winds