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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A an inner core of magma
B radioactive decay
C the pull of lunar gravity
D plate tectonics
E friction
Question #2
A isostasy
B plate tectonics
C catastrophism
D monotheism
Question #3
A magma
B mantle
C crust
D inner core
E outer core
Question #4
A petrology
B color
C origin
D pH
E crystal structure
Question #6
A Mineral is a synonym for rock.
B More than 500,000 minerals exist.
C Fewer than 20 minerals make up 95% of the crust.
D All minerals crystals are too small to be seen.
E All minerals have been discovered.
Question #7
A little evidence of paleomagnetic reversals of the poles
B increasingly younger rocks
C the seafloor is drifting opposite to your direction of motion
D increasingly older rocks
E more and more earthquakes
Question #8
A conventional extraction
B oil
C natural gas
D fossil fuels in sandstones
E an environmentally safe extraction method
Question #9
A 100 meters per year
B 10 meters per year
C 0 centimeters per year (stopped)
D 10 centimeters per year
E 1 kilometer per year
Question #10
A transducive boundaries between oceanic and continental plates
B convergent between oceanic plates
C convergent between continental plates
D divergent between oceanic plates
E divergent between continental plates
Question #11
A convergent
B transcurrent
C basalt
D rift
E divergent
Question #12
A divergent
B subducting
C transform
D convergent
E fault scarp
Question #13
A Large crystals
B Hollow cores
C Numerous joints
D Straight or wavy, banded lines
E Small crystals
Question #14
A toward each other
B away from each other
C toward the North Pole
D toward the Equator
E nowhere
Question #15
A an outcrop
B regolith
C soil
D bedrock
E sediments
Question #16
A Arizona
B Arkansas
C Washington
D Idaho
E California
Question #17
A granite
B detrital striations
C clastic inclusions
D strata
E intrusive exfoliation
Question #18
A crust
B outer core
C aluminum
D atmosphere
E inner core
Question #19
A Mt. Unzen, Japan
B Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines
C Hawaiian Islands
D Mount St. Helens, Washington
E Mt. Novarupta, Alaska
Question #20
A continental shield
B plate
C mid-ocean ridge
D transform fault region
E caldera
Question #21
A It must be made up of inorganic substances.
B It must form a regular pattern of crystals.
C It must be found in nature.
D It must have economic value.
E It must have the same chemical composition wherever found.
Question #22
A Transform faults
B Island arcs
C Continental rift zones
D Upwelling of magma
E Seafloor spreading
Question #23
A Wegener
B Köppen
C Darwin
D Saganss
E Wallace
Question #24
A subduction zones on the ocean floor
B Azores Island
C volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean
D the Hawaiian Islands
E flood basalts
Question #25
A Island arc
B Trench
C The Alps
D Mid-oceanic ridge
E Subduction
Question #27
A on a convergent boundary
B on a transform boundary
C on a divergent boundary
D not on a plate boundary
E not on a plate
Question #28
A sedimentary chemical and organic
B igneous intrusive
C sedimentary clastic
D metamorphic foliated
E igneous extrusive
Question #29
A Wegener
B Hutton
C Berkeley
D Aristotle
E Köppen
Question #30
A magma
B lava
C pyroclastic material
D silica
E granite
Question #31
A outer core
B lithosphere
C magnetosphere
D asthenosphere
E Moho
Question #32
A Aluminum
B Quartz
C Titanium
D Iron
E Basalt
Question #34
A extrusive material
B magma
C bedrock
D rock
E soil
Question #35
A radioactive decay
B fission
C volcanoes
D fusion
E rotation
Question #36
A The Hawaiian Islands
B Southern California
C The Florida peninsula
D The lower Mississippi River Valley
E Western Europe
