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7th Grade Science CGA Practice Exam

Part 3
35. Over a long period of time, igneous rock can change
into sedimentary rock. What must happen to igneous
rock before it can change into sedimentary rock? (E.6.2)
A. It must be broken down into sediment.
B. Its minerals must be dissolved in water.
C. It must melt and become magma.
D. It must be exposed to high pressure and temperature.
36. Wegener developed a hypothesis of continental drift.
What evidence supported this new hypothesis? (E.6.4)
A. The similarities of fossils found on landmasses that
are far away from each other.
B. The movement of tides.
C. The relationship between the mantle and the crust.
D. The relationship between the north and south poles.
37. The Red Sea formed as the African Plate moved
apart from the Arabian Plate. Which type of boundary
was involved in the formation of the Red Sea? (E.6.5)
A. transform boundary C. divergent boundary
B. stationary boundary D. convergent boundary
38. The Rocky Mountains formed when the Pacific
plate collided with the North American plate. Which of
the following terms describes this process? (E.6.5)
A. ridge push
B. divergent boundary
C. transform boundary D. convergent boundary
39. How is the location of volcanoes in the Ring of Fire
related to tectonic plate boundaries? (E.6.5)
A. Most volcanoes in the Ring of Fire are located at hot
spots.
B. Most volcanoes in the Ring of Fire are located along a
mid-ocean ridge.
C. There is no consistent pattern in the location of
volcanoes in the Ring of Fire.
D. Most volcanoes in the Ring of Fire are located where
an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.
40. Unlike Florida, a transform boundary passes through
California. What happens at a transform boundary that
can cause an earthquake? (E.6.5)
A. Two plate collide.
B. Two plates move away from each other.
C. Two plates move in the same direction.
D. Two plates slide or glide past each other.

41. Why do most earthquakes take place at tectonic

plate boundaries? (E.6.5)
A. the rock in the interior of a tectonic plate is stronger
so it does not deform.
B. Earthquakes take place where energy is transferred to
rock by the motion of tectonic plates.
C. Earthquakes can only occur at places where magma
can reach the surface and transfer energy to rocks.
D. Earthquakes take place when one plate moves over
another plate, which happens only at plate boundaries.
42. What is the primary way that mountains are formed?
(E.6.5)
A. by tension at a transform boundary
B. by compression at a convergent boundary
C. by shear stress at a divergent boundary
D. by volcanic activity
43. The Earth receives heat and light energy that travels
from the Sun. When you are at the beach you can feel
the warmth from the sun. Which of the following is the
correct classification for this energy? (P.10.1)
A. radiation
B. nuclear
C. kinetic
D. electrical
44. What type of heat transfer takes place in a gas?
(P.11.4)
A. Convection B. Conduction
C. Radiation
D.Global warming
45. A ball is dropped from height of 1m. The ball
bounces back to height of 0.8m. What happened to the
energy that seems to have been lost in the system?
(P.11.3)
A. The lost energy was destroyed.
B. The lost energy was destroyed or converted into
thermal energy.
C. The lost energy was converted into sound energy.
D. The lost energy was converted into sound energy
and thermal energy.
46. The kinetic energy of an object depends on the
objects mass and speed. As the objects mass and speed
increases, its kinetic energy also increases. Which of the
following has the most kinetic energy? (P.11.2)
A. a trucked parked in a lot
B. a jet airplane flying on the air
C. a kitten running in a room
D. a car driving on a highway
47. When a skateboarder reaches the top of a half-pipe
ramp, what type of energy is at its maximum? (P.11.2)
A. Mechanical energy
B. Kinetic energy
C. Potential energy
D. Chemical energy

48. Kins teacher has given the class the task of

designing a roller coaster using pipe insulation tubing for
the track and a marble for the car. Which of the
following factors will decrease the speed of the marble
down a slope? (P.11.2)
A. Friction
B. Gravity
C. Mass
D. Momentum

55. Ashley puts a straw into a glass of water. She

notices that when she looks through the glass and the
water from the side, the straw appears to be broken.
Which term best explains why the straw looks like it is
broken? (P.10.1)
A. absorption
B. refraction
C. scattering
D. transmission

49. Sunlight is composed of energy that is visible to

humans and energy that is not visible to humans. Which
statement describes who the visible energy from the Sun
is different from the non-visible energy? (P.10.1)
A. It travels at a different speed.
B. It travels a different distance.
C. It has different wavelengths.
D. it has different amplitudes.

56. The energy generated by the sun travels to Earth as

electromagnetic waves. Because the radiation from the
sun travels to Earth in varying wavelengths, scientists
consider them to be a spectrum. Which statement
describes an electromagnetic wave with a long
wavelength? (P.10.1)
A. It has a high frequency and low energy.
B. It has a high frequency and high energy.
C. It has a low frequency and can travel through a
vacuum.
D. It has a low frequency and needs a medium to travel
through.

50. A toy robot can walk and talk and runs on batteries.
What type of energy is stored in the batteries? (P.11.2)
A. chemical
B. kinetic
C. nuclear
D. thermal
51. A guitar string vibrates to produce sound. Which
type of energy is converted to sound energy? (P.11.2)
A. chemical energy
B. light energy
C. kinetic energy
D. thermal energy
52. On a cold winter day, Delia puts logs into a
fireplace. Then she strikes a match and sets the logs on
fire. As the fire burns, which two forms of energy are
released? (P.11.2)
A. light and thermal
B. thermal ad electrical
C. chemical and light
D. electrical and chemical
53. A flashlight runs on a battery. If the light is left on
the battery runs out and the flashlight stops working.
Which statement best describes what has happened to
the batterys energy? (P.11.3)
A. It has been destroyed.
B. It has been stored as kinetic energy.
C. It has changed to potential energy.
D. It has changed to thermal energy and light energy.
54. Which description defines heat? (P.11.4)
A. total thermal energy of an object or substance
B. change in the temperature of a substance degrees
Celsius
C. energy transferred between objects at differ
temperatures
D. average kinetic energy of the particles that make up a
substance

57. Habib looks around his classroom at different

objects. Which object reflects almost all of the light that
strikes it? (P.10.1)
A. white poster board C. bright overhead light
B. clear window glass D. black construction paper
58. Electromagnetic energy travels through space as
waves. The electromagnetic spectrum includes all
electromagnetic waves, arranged according to frequency
and wavelength. Which of these is an example of an
electromagnetic waves?
A. radio wave
B. sound wave
C. ocean wave
D. gravitational pull
59. Sonia tapped one end of a long wooden table.
Sanjay and Marc listened to the sounds. Sanjay pressed
his ear to the table and heard the taps that seemed louder
than the taps that marc heard. Why? (P.10.3)
A. More energy reached Sanjays ear than Marcs ear.
B. Particles of wood are farther apart than particles of
air.
C. Sound travels through air and wood at different
speeds.
D. The taps only made the table vibrate, they did not
make the air vibrate.
60. Emma measured the maximum displacement of a
wav that she made by moving the end of a string up and
down. What property of a wave was she measuring?
(P.10.3)
A. period
B. frequency
C. amplitude
D. wavelength