Scientists find a new mid-ocean ridge forming along an underwater mountain range. What can scientists assume to be most correct based on this finding?
Changes in energy drive the water cycle, shown in the diagram.
Which statement best describes one way in which energy transfers through the water cycle?
Four science students want to model how water changes its state as it moves through its cyclical process on Earth. Each student has a different idea for ways to model this, as shown below.
Which Student's idea would best show this concept?
The Coriolis effect is a result of the rotation of Earth. It has a direct impact on the directions of Earth's winds, as shown in the diagrams below. Northern Hemisphere winds are deflected to the right, and Southern Hemisphere winds are deflected to the left.
How does the Coriolis effect most impact Earth's climate?
A science class is studying climates in different parts of the United States. They learned that
Florida and Alaska have very different climates year round. The map below shows the locations
of Alaska and Florida.
Which of the following is the correct relationship between energy, sun, and the air?
How do the currents off the coast of Florida and Alaska compare?
Nasha left a hot bowl of soup in a cool room. Her friend tells her that her soup will get cold if she forgets to eat it. How cold could it get?
Sonya put a glass of water on the table and left the room. When she came back, she found water drops on the outside of the glass. Where did the water on the outside of the glass come from?
Which air parcel will have more rainfall and why?
What could best explain why Storm 2 had more rainfall than Storm 1?
Before Storm 2, the air parcel at the surface could have been:
What evidence from the profile would a scientist use to best support the claim that the basalt layer is younger than the other rock layers?
Which observation best supports your answer to Part A?
Compare the current world map on the previous page to the four maps above showing what Earth might have looked like millions of years ago. Based on the fossil distribution in the current world map, which of these is most accurate?
In this performance task, you will answer five questions.
A geologist is giving a lecture to help people understand why fossils are sometimes found in
unexpected places. This includes fossils of fish found in tall mountains and fossils of tropical
plants found in deserts. She will also discuss why the same fossils are found in different
locations thousands of miles apart and why they are not found in some places at all. She begins by explaining that Earth's surface is made up of many large slabs known as plates, which are constantly moving although very slowly. The movement of Earth's plates is known as plate tectonics. This movement helps explain why some fossils are found in strange places.
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When plates meet, one plate will often slide beneath a second in a process called subduction, causing the second plate to push upward. Because of great pressure. the hard rock of the plate that sinks is often destroyed, along with any fossils contained in that part of the plate. At other times, plates will pull apart or slide alongside each other.
Examine the map on the previous page and the diagrams below closely to answer the following questions.
Which of the following statements is true?
Which observation best supports your answer to Part A?
How did marine fossils come to be high in the Andes Mountains? Choose two correct answers.
Hawaii has very few fossils. Look at the map, and consider what you have learned so far. Explain why the island of Kauai is smaller than the island of Hawaii and why there are so few fossils on any of the islands.
Consider how the moon appears in orbit around Earth in your class model. You look up the radius
of Io’s orbit and Jupiter’s diameter. Your determine that the 8 p.m. sketch shows that Io is one
Jupiter radius distant from the planet. The 6 a.m. sketch shows that Io is almost directly between
Jupiter and Earth. Based on your evidence, you conclude that Io has traveled about a quarter of
its orbit around Jupiter while you were photographing it.
Select two true statements.
Make a general comparison of those planets closer to the sun with those farther from the sun,
based on the data.
Which location, Florida or Alaska, gets more energy from the sun? Explain.
You want to live in a city in Florida where the temperatures are relatively stable. Would you
choose a coastal city or one inland, one that is away from any water body? Explain.
