General Science

Question 1

The innermost layer of Earth is?

Answer 1

An iron core.

Question 2

When did the Earth form?

Answer 2

4.6 billion years ago.

Question 3

The lithosphere is?

Answer 3

Relatively light and uppermost.

Question 4

Mountains are parts of Earth’s?

Answer 4

Crust

Question 5

Which of the following is the primary driving force behind ocean tides?

Answer 5

The moon

Question 6

The Earth’s mantle?

Answer 6

Is between the crust and the core.

Question 7

Most of the rock at Earth’s surface is?

Answer 7

Sedimentary.

Question 8

Slate is a dark, metamorphic rock whose sedimentary precursor was?

Answer 8

Shale.

Question 9

How long does it take the global atmosphere to circulate?

Answer 9

One year.

Question 10

What ultimately drives the circulation of the atmosphere and ocean?

Answer 10

The Sun

Question 11

The timescale for the entire ocean to mix is about?

Answer 11

One thousand years.

Question 12

Why do oceans have waves, but small ponds do not?

Answer 12

The surface area of a pond is not large enough for wind to create waves.

Question 13

Soil is thickest, generally, where?

Answer 13

climate is coldest.

Question 14

Which of the following is true in biological classification?

Answer 14

Genus has many species.

Question 15

What is an invasive species?

Answer 15

A nonnative species that is introduced from elsewhere and spreads.

Question 16

What you eat, you take in “embodied energy” What exactly has become embodied?

Answer 16

Sunlight.

Question 17

The functional role that bacteria play in the recycling of elements in the ocean is the equivalent to the role played on land by?

Answer 17

Soil bacteria

Question 18

which is not larger than a community?

Answer 18

Population

Question 19

The limit to a population of a species in a community determined by environmental conditions or species interactions, is called the?

Answer 19

Carrying capacity.