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The Earth and Life Science Quiz is designed to challenge your understanding of the natural world, from geological processes to the complexities of living organisms. Covering a wide range of topics, the quiz explores Earth's...
Questions: 40 | Attempts: 20408 | Last updated: Nov 27, 2024
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Sample QuestionWhich theory about the origin of the universe states that, 13.8 billion years ago, the universe expanded from a tiny, dense, and hot mass to its present size and cooler state?
The planets that we know of so far are in constant motion and the earth is no exemption. The earth orbits around the sun in what we have come to identify as revolution and spins around its axis. This process cannot be viewed...
Questions: 14 | Attempts: 31989 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025
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Sample QuestionThe earth spins on an angled tilt called a(n)
Questions: 69 | Attempts: 802 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2023
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Sample QuestionThe windblown top of a thunderstorm is called a
Can you call yourself an expert in Earth science? Would you be able to pass this quiz? Earth science is the research of the Earth, land, water, and air. Earth science's ambition is to learn about and understand Earth's...
Questions: 19 | Attempts: 9652 | Last updated: Sep 17, 2024
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Sample QuestionThe Earth rotates in about _____ hours.
Earth and space science final exam answers provide a comprehensive overview of the vast knowledge encompassed in this field. As students navigate their way through the curriculum, they delve into the intricacies of our...
Questions: 50 | Attempts: 3506 | Last updated: Dec 29, 2024
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Sample QuestionAt the equator, the sun's rays always strike Earth
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Questions: 10 | Attempts: 849 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025
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Sample QuestionThe Earth spins on its...
Limestone was formed from the remains of organisms that lived in ancient seas. Large areas of beautiful countryside in the UK consist of limestone formed when the country was under water. It forms in shallow tropical seas and so...
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 305 | Last updated: Oct 24, 2024
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Sample QuestionGaping Gill is an excellent example of what feature?
Earth Science/ Geography or Geology is the subject that deals with the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be 'to describe or write about the Earth'. The...
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 238 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025
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Sample QuestionWhat sort of map uses colour shading?
In tropical areas like the Caribbean, huge tropical storms called hurricanes (the same as typhoons in the Pacific Ocean or cyclones in the Indian Ocean) cause huge amounts of damage when they reach land. They bring winds of well...
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 258 | Last updated: Oct 24, 2024
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Sample QuestionThe HIV virus can lead to which disease?
Tropical rainforests experience high temperatures and a lot of rain. A tropical rainforest is a place found roughly within 25 degrees north or south of the equator. Over an acre of rainforest is being lost every second with...
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 265 | Last updated: Oct 24, 2024
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Sample QuestionThe dense 'roof' of treetops is called what?
The Earth's crust is unstable, especially at the edges of tectonic plates. You are expected to know how these plate boundaries are distributed around the world and the key features of each type of boundary,...
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 217 | Last updated: Oct 22, 2024
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Sample QuestionWhich of the following statements is NOT correct?
Granite is an igneous rock that underlies a lot of highland Scotland and the south-west peninsula of England (Devon and Cornwall). Dartmoor is a good example of a typical granite landscape. Exposures of granite are the tops...
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 199 | Last updated: Oct 22, 2024
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Sample QuestionClay is:
By now, you will no doubt have learned that volcanoes occur in narrow belts in certain areas of the world. These belts also suffer earthquakes, and they mark out the areas where the Earth's tectonic plates are coming together...
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 162 | Last updated: Oct 22, 2024
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Sample QuestionMauna Loa, an active volcano of the Hawaiian islands, erupted in 1984. The nearest town is Hilo which is 50 km away. Hilo was not evacuated during the eruption. Why not?
The countryside around us, including the built environment, is often influenced by what lies underneath our feet - the rocks. Rocks form the Earth's crust and belong to one of three main groups - sedimentary, igneous and...
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 169 | Last updated: Oct 22, 2024
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Sample QuestionWhich of the following statements is incorrect?
In the past 150 years half the topsoil on the planet has been lost. In addition compaction, loss of soil structure, loss of nutrients and an increase of salinity are damaging other parts of soil, destroying its ecosystems and the...
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 191 | Last updated: Oct 22, 2024
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Sample QuestionOn many islands and in some nature reserves, goats are being removed and banned. How does removing goats and similar grazing animals reduce soil erosion?
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Take a deep dive into the dynamic processes that constantly shape our planet with this Earth Science Quiz on Weathering and Erosion. Designed for students, educators, and geology enthusiasts, this quiz covers essential topics...
Questions: 47 | Attempts: 5825 | Last updated: Aug 7, 2024
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Sample QuestionWhat are the four agents of erosion?
Most of the people usually don't know the difference between a mineral and a rock. A mineral is a naturally occurring solid that has a chemical composition and formed through geological processes. A rock, however, is made up...
Questions: 19 | Attempts: 2937 | Last updated: Sep 17, 2024
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Sample QuestionTrue or False: The factor that determine's a mineral physical characteristcs is based upon the internal arrangement of atoms.