Geo Extra Credit 3
Unit 1
1. Which of the following is the first National Park in USA?
(A)
A. Yellowstone
B. Arches National Park
C. Zion National Park
D. The Wave
2. Science is always right
True/False
(False, Science can be wrong sometime, in fact, millions of scientists are trying to prove the
existing scientific laws are wrong)
3. Who came up with the idea that the earth goes around the Sun? (C)
A. Barak Obama
B. Yuxi Xie
C. Galileo
D. Pope Urban VIII
4. Why do we need Science?
(A)
A. Science works
B. We have too much money to spend
C. Aliens are attacking the Earth, we need science to protest us
D. Scientists are cute
5. What is the NO.1 difficulty for national parks manager? (C)
A. How to attract more visitors
B. How to make money
C. Saving a wild region for the future while having it enjoyed by millions of visitors each year
D. How to open more restaurant in the parks
Unit 2
1. Where is the hottest and driest place in the US? (D)
A. Yellowstone
B. Grand Teton
C. State College
D. Death Valley
2. Which of the following motion best describe Death Valley nowadays? (A)
A. It is getting wider
B. It is getting narrower
C. It is getting deeper
D. It is getting drier
3. Which of the following action contribute to the motion above? (A)
A. Push together
B. Pull apart
C. Push apart
D. Pull together
4. Which of the following contribute to the movement of plate tectonic? (C)
A. Radiation
B. Conduction
C. Convection
D. All of above
5. Which of the following action of heat can we observe on the earth? (D)
a. Radiation
b. Conduction
c. Convection
d. All of above
Unit 4
1. Which of the following national park is the most popular one? (d)
a. Yellowstone
b. Grand teton
c. Arches national park
d. Smoky Mountain
2. How did Smoky Mountain form? (a)
A. Obduction
B. Push together
C. Pull apart
D. Men power
3. Which of the following national parks are the most similar to state college geographically? (a)
A. Smoky Mountain
B. Arches National Parks
C. Death Valley
D. Picture Rock National Park
4. Why the great smokie are still so high? (a)
A. Mountain is “growing”
B. God made it
C. Birds drop a lot of poops on the top of the mountain and make it high
D. Scientists haven’t found out yet
5. Which of the following location are most likely to be attacked by tsunami? (a)
A. Japan
B. Mongolia
C. State College
D. Russia
Unit 5
1. The amount of sunlight passing through a square meter is the same at the equator as at the
pole.
True/False
True
2. If we have no atmosphere or ocean, the Earth will become an even better place for human
to live on.
True/False
False. If we had no atmosphere or oceans, the equator would become too hot for life as we
know it, and the poles too cold.
3. How can you cool air? (c)
A. By losing its heat to surrounding
B. By being lift
C. All of above
D. Non of above
4. Air in which condensation is not occurring cools by about 1ºC for each 100 meters it is lifted,
but air from which clouds and rain are forming only cools about 0.6º C for each 100 meters
it is lifted.
True/False
True
5. Erosion+transport=weathering
True/False
False. Weathering + transport = erosion
Unit 9
1. The different layers of color in Bryce Canyon is the result of _____ (c)
A. Obduction
B. Segmentation
C. Sedimentation
D. Erosion
2. Which of the following statements is true? (a)
A. Scientists have figured out ways to tell which layer is up and which is down
B. Scientists know nothing
C. We can ask the rock about how old are they, and they will speak u the answer
D. Geography is useless
3. Two classification of rock are: (c)
a. Clastic
b. Precipitated
c. All of above
d. Non of above
4. How can we tell the story of rock? (d)
a. we study the rocks carefully
b. we know what sorts of sediments are produced in what sorts of environments today
c. we make the common-sense assumption of “uniformitarianism”, that the present is the
key to the past.
d. All of above
5. Lots of these experts agree that the limestones of Bryce and surroundings were deposited in a
shallow lake and adjacent streams and mud flats.
True/False
True