Welcome! This two-page summative pre- and post-course test for middle school earth science covers the following topics: plate tectonics, volcanoes, weathering, erosion, deposition, soil formation, the rock cycle (holistically), fault lines, earthquakes, seismic waves, severe weather (e.g., hurricanes), clouds, weather fronts, air pressure, names/titles of scientists in the various earth science-related fields, crustal deformations, stresses on the crust, winds (global and local), layers of the e