Earth Science Quiz: Rocks and Plate Tectonics

A detailed illustration showing the rock cycle, featuring sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks, with visual elements representing weathering, erosion, and plate tectonics.

Earth Science Quiz: Rocks and Plate Tectonics

Test your knowledge on fundamental earth science concepts with our engaging quiz! This quiz covers key topics such as the rock cycle, natural selection, and geologic time. Whether you're a student or just curious about geology, this is a great opportunity to learn.

  • Explore various earth science topics
  • Enhance your understanding of geology
  • Challenge yourself and track your progress
13 Questions3 MinutesCreated by ExploringEarth101
Breaking down rocks by wind, water, ice, or heat
Weathering
Paleontology
Alleles
Index fossil
The theory that the organisms best suited to the environment will be most likely to survive and produce offspring
Populations
Adaptations
Natural selection
Gene
The process that describes the gradual transformation between the three main types of rocks; sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous
Fault
Rock cycle
Unconformity
Erosion
Theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into large slabs of solid rock, called "plates," that glide over Earth's mantle.
Continental drift
Geologic time scale
Plate tectonics
Reaction rate
Material that carries genes and is made from DNA and proteins
Product
Chromosome
Chemical formula
Atom
The capacity to do work
Thermal energy
Law of conservation mass
Unconformity
Energy
A calendar of Earth's history divided into different sections based on evidence found in rocks and fossils
Geologic time scale
Comparative embryology
Law of superposition
Paleontology
Changes over time in the bodies or behaviors of plants and animals that increase their chance of survival
Mutations
Populations
Alleles
Adaptations
The theory that continents move, join, and break apart
Natural resouces
Continental drift
Sedimentary
Erosion
The basic units of matter and elements
Atom
Mass
Product
Atomic number
Each sedimentary rock layer is older that the rock layer above it and younger than the layer below it
Fault
Resource distribution
Rock cycle
Law of superposition
The process of reorganizing atoms into molecules
Reactant
Relative dating
Chemical reaction
Product
Total energy, including kinetic and potential energy, of the particles that make up a material; is transferred by conduction, convection, and radiation
Thermal energy
Energy
Endothermic reactions
Exothermic reactions
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