Name: _______________________ Date: __________________

Earth Science Assessment

Part 1- Multiple Choice
Directions: Circle the letter that represents the correct answer for each question.

1. What is a hazard?
A. A weather condition
B. Something that is harmful or dangerous
C. A technique to help poor weather conditions
D. A warning

2. What is an example of a natural hazard?

A. Earthquake
B. Tsunami
C. Volcano
D. All of the above

3. What causes an earthquake to occur?

A. Pollution
B. A human created force in nature
C. When dirt, rocks, and other materials come down a slope
D. Earths gravity pulls objects toward Earths center

4. What is a tsunami?
A. A long, high sea wave
B. When the ocean becomes contaminated with pollution
C. Mass rainfall
D. A mixture of gases, water, and solids

5. What is erosion?
A. Decaying of rocks
B. Movement of slabs of rock along a fault that causes earthquake
C. A processes that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the
Earth's crust, and then transport it away to another location
D. A mixture of grain material and water.

6. What is a true statement about a landslide?

A. Land and soil slides up a hill
 B. Gravity makes material in any landslide move downhill
C. Landslides can save people
D. None of the above

7. How can you help reduce the impact of volcanoes?

A. Use a seismometer
B. Monitor gases
C. People can evacuate or leave, the area and go to a safer place
D. All of the above

8. What are some ways you can reduce the impact of earthquakes?
A. Earthquake drills
B. Earthquake resistant buildings
C. Food drives
D. All of the above
E. Both A & B

Part II - Fill in the blank

Directions: Write the correct word in the blank.

9. A ____________________ is a long high sea wave caused by a natural disaster.

10. A _________________ is a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger and an important

decision must be made.

11. Lava is hot molten erupted from a _____________ or solid rock resulting from the cooling of
this.

12. Earthquakes are caused when rock underground breaks along a ________________ .

13. Landslides are caused by heavy rains, ___________________, and __________________

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14. ______________________ is a team of individuals who use the Internet to gather and
display information to enable relief workers to more quickly and to effectively to help crisis
victims.

15. One way to reduce the impact of volcanoes is using a _____________________ - these
instruments can record any ground movements near a volcano.

Part III - Open-Ended Response

Directions: Write a paragraph including at least three vocabulary terms.
 Word Bank
Magma Eruption Lava Gravity Landslide

Seismometers Evacuate Seismographs Fault Liquefaction

Crisis mapping Hazard Earthquake Volcano Tsunami

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