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Grade 5 Environmental Science
Which is the best reason why understanding global warming so important?
  1. It can negatively affect plants and animals, but not people.
  2. It can negatively affect people, but not plants and animals.
  3. It can negatively affect people, plants, and animals.
Grade 5 Environmental Science
Freshwater can become polluted and unsafe for drinking or cooking. The word that most closely defines polluted is                .
  1. contained
  2. salt water
  3. purified
  4. contaminated
Grade 5 Volcanoes
A volcano formed when erupting lava is too thick to flow and makes a steep-sided mound as the lava piles up near the volcanic vent is called                    .
  1. Cinder Cones
  2. Composite Volcanoes
  3. Shield Volcanoes
  4. Lava Domes
Grade 5 Atmosphere
A place's                 is the patterns of weather over many years.
  1. temperature
  2. humidity
  3. heat
  4. climate
Grade 5 Atmosphere
What layer are satellites found?
  1. Mesosphere
  2. Thermosphere
  3. Stratosphere
  4. Troposphere
Grade 5 Earth's Layers
What is the correct order of Earth's layers?
  1. Mantle, Core, Crust
  2. Mantle, Crust, Core
  3. Crust, Core, Mantle
  4. Crust, Mantle, Core
Grade 5 Geomorphology
What changes Earth's surface?
  1. volcanoes
  2. weathering
  3. erosion
  4. all of the above
Grade 5 Earth's Layers
In what part of the Earth's layers do the plates float on?
  1. crust
  2. mantle
  3. inner core
  4. outer core
Grade 5 Rocks
Fossils are most often found in
  1. sedimentary rock.
  2. lava.
  3. sand.
  4. igneous rock.
Grade 5 Tectonics
A crack in the crust is a                .
  1. delta
  2. fault
  3. plate
  4. topography
Grade 5 Soil
From top to bottom, how is soil layered?
  1. subsoil, topsoil, bedrock
  2. topsoil, bedrock, subsoil
  3. bedrock, subsoil, topsoil
  4. topsoil, subsoil, bedrock
Grade 5 Volcanoes
A mountain that forms as molten rock flows from within Earth to the surface is a(n)                .
  1. earthquake
  2. epicenter
  3. delta
  4. volcano
Grade 5 Environmental Science
Most forms of energy originally come from
  1. water.
  2. Earth.
  3. the Sun.
  4. natural gas.
Grade 5 Atmosphere
The                 is a mixture of gases that surround Earth.
  1. atmosphere
  2. biosphere
  3. hydrosphere
  4. cryosphere
Grade 5 Earth's Layers
Which of the layers makes up most of Earth's mass?
  1. crust
  2. mantle
  3. inner core
  4. outer core
Grade 5 Volcanoes
Molten rock that flows from a volcano onto Earth's surface is                .
  1. lava
  2. magma
  3. sediment
  4. sand
Grade 5 Earth's Layers
Earth's thickest layer is called the                .
  1. mantle.
  2. crust.
  3. inner core.
  4. outer core.
Grade 5 Tectonics
The continents on Earth used to be combined together in a supercontinent called Pangaea.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Earth's Layers
What is the innermost layer of Earth called?
  1. Crust
  2. Core
  3. Mantle
Grade 5 Rocks
Rocks formed from hot, molten rock material that cooled and hardened are                .
  1. igneous
  2. sedimentary
  3. metamorphic
  4. minerals
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