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Earth Science Diagnostic Test
This page, Earth Science Diagnostic Test, presents our diagnostic test of earth science.
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This page covers the following topics:
11) How does the Earth's diameter at the equator compare to its diameter at the poles?
12) What is density?
13) What are the two most abundant elements in the Earth's crust?
14) What does the Principle of Uniformitarianism state?
15) What kind of texture co cooling igneous rocks have?
16) What is magma?
17) What is conglomerate?
18) What kind of rock forms when limestone undergoes metamorphism?
19) What is coquina?
10) What is a fossil?
11) In the rock cycle, what is formed when igneous rocks weather?
12) What are the two most important minerals in the granite family?
13) What is a nonrenewable resource?
14) What is chemical weathering?
15) What is the bedrock beneath the soil called?
16) What is erosion?
17) What is permeability?
18) What factors cause deposition?
19) Where are stalactites, stalagmites and pillars most likely to form?
20) What are continental glaciers?
21) What is a glacial trough?
22) With what is a beach near a steeply sloping sea floor likely to be covered?
23) What three things did Wegener use to support the theory of continental drift?
24) What results in a collision boundary?
25) How is an earthquake detected and measured?
26) What is the epicenter of an earthquake?
27) What is insolation?
28) What is the greenhouse effect?
29) What causes the change of seasons?
30) What causes tides?
31) What is Spring tide?
32) What is Neap tide?
33) What is wind?
34) What is the Coriolis Effect?
35) What factors affect the rate of evaporation?
36) How does absolute humidity differ from relative humidity?
37) Name three agents of erosion.
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