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