Navigation » List of Schools » Pierce College » Geography » Geog 001 – Physical Geography » Spring 2022 » Module 11 Chapter 13 and 14 Quiz
Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A plate tectonics
B an inner core of magma
C the pull of lunar gravity
D radioactive decay
E friction
Question #2
A monotheism
B plate tectonics
C catastrophism
D isostasy
Question #3
A inner core
B outer core
C mantle
D crust
E magma
Question #4
A color
B crystal structure
C pH
D petrology
E origin
Question #6
A Fewer than 20 minerals make up 95% of the crust.
B More than 500,000 minerals exist.
C All minerals crystals are too small to be seen.
D All minerals have been discovered.
E Mineral is a synonym for rock.
Question #7
A the seafloor is drifting opposite to your direction of motion
B increasingly older rocks
C more and more earthquakes
D little evidence of paleomagnetic reversals of the poles
E increasingly younger rocks
Question #8
A an environmentally safe extraction method
B conventional extraction
C oil
D fossil fuels in sandstones
E natural gas
Question #9
A 0 centimeters per year (stopped)
B 10 meters per year
C 10 centimeters per year
D 100 meters per year
E 1 kilometer per year
Question #10
A transducive boundaries between oceanic and continental plates
B convergent between oceanic plates
C divergent between continental plates
D divergent between oceanic plates
E convergent between continental plates
Question #11
A divergent
B rift
C basalt
D convergent
E transcurrent
Question #12
A fault scarp
B transform
C convergent
D divergent
E subducting
Question #13
A Straight or wavy, banded lines
B Hollow cores
C Small crystals
D Numerous joints
E Large crystals
Question #14
A away from each other
B toward each other
C nowhere
D toward the North Pole
E toward the Equator
Question #15
A an outcrop
B sediments
C regolith
D soil
E bedrock
Question #16
A Washington
B Arizona
C California
D Idaho
E Arkansas
Question #17
A detrital striations
B strata
C granite
D intrusive exfoliation
E clastic inclusions
Question #18
A atmosphere
B crust
C outer core
D aluminum
E inner core
Question #19
A Mt. Unzen, Japan
B Hawaiian Islands
C Mt. Novarupta, Alaska
D Mount St. Helens, Washington
E Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines
Question #20
A caldera
B plate
C continental shield
D transform fault region
E mid-ocean ridge
Question #21
A It must be found in nature.
B It must be made up of inorganic substances.
C It must form a regular pattern of crystals.
D It must have economic value.
E It must have the same chemical composition wherever found.
Question #22
A Transform faults
B Seafloor spreading
C Upwelling of magma
D Continental rift zones
E Island arcs
Question #23
A Wegener
B Wallace
C Köppen
D Saganss
E Darwin
Question #24
A Azores Island
B flood basalts
C subduction zones on the ocean floor
D the Hawaiian Islands
E volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean
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 not on a plate
C on a transform boundary
D on a convergent boundary
E on a divergent boundary
Question #28
A metamorphic foliated
B igneous extrusive
C sedimentary chemical and organic
D igneous intrusive
E sedimentary clastic
Question #29
A Köppen
B Berkeley
C Aristotle
D Hutton
E Wegener
Question #30
A pyroclastic material
B granite
C magma
D silica
E lava
Question #31
A asthenosphere
B magnetosphere
C lithosphere
D Moho
E outer core
Question #32
A Iron
B Basalt
C Aluminum
D Quartz
E Titanium
Question #34
A rock
B extrusive material
C bedrock
D magma
E soil
Question #35
A fission
B radioactive decay
C rotation
D fusion
E volcanoes
Question #36
A Western Europe
B The Hawaiian Islands
C Southern California
D The lower Mississippi River Valley
E The Florida peninsula
