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