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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A the pull of lunar gravity
B friction
C an inner core of magma
D radioactive decay
E plate tectonics
Question #2
A catastrophism
B monotheism
C isostasy
D plate tectonics
Question #3
A crust
B inner core
C outer core
D magma
E mantle
Question #4
A crystal structure
B origin
C color
D petrology
E pH
Question #6
A All minerals crystals are too small to be seen.
B All minerals have been discovered.
C Fewer than 20 minerals make up 95% of the crust.
D Mineral is a synonym for rock.
E More than 500,000 minerals exist.
Question #7
A increasingly older rocks
B little evidence of paleomagnetic reversals of the poles
C the seafloor is drifting opposite to your direction of motion
D increasingly younger rocks
E more and more earthquakes
Question #8
A oil
B an environmentally safe extraction method
C fossil fuels in sandstones
D natural gas
E conventional extraction
Question #9
A 100 meters per year
B 1 kilometer per year
C 10 meters per year
D 10 centimeters per year
E 0 centimeters per year (stopped)
Question #10
A divergent between oceanic plates
B divergent between continental plates
C transducive boundaries between oceanic and continental plates
D convergent between oceanic plates
E convergent between continental plates
Question #11
A divergent
B convergent
C rift
D basalt
E transcurrent
Question #12
A convergent
B subducting
C transform
D divergent
E fault scarp
Question #13
A Numerous joints
B Hollow cores
C Straight or wavy, banded lines
D Small crystals
E Large crystals
Question #14
A nowhere
B toward each other
C toward the North Pole
D away from each other
E toward the Equator
Question #15
A soil
B bedrock
C regolith
D sediments
E an outcrop
Question #16
A Idaho
B Arkansas
C California
D Washington
E Arizona
Question #17
A detrital striations
B intrusive exfoliation
C clastic inclusions
D strata
E granite
Question #18
A outer core
B aluminum
C atmosphere
D inner core
E crust
Question #19
A Hawaiian Islands
B Mt. Unzen, Japan
C Mt. Novarupta, Alaska
D Mount St. Helens, Washington
E Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines
Question #20
A mid-ocean ridge
B continental shield
C transform fault region
D caldera
E plate
Question #21
A It must be made up of inorganic substances.
B It must form a regular pattern of crystals.
C It must have economic value.
D It must be found in nature.
E It must have the same chemical composition wherever found.
Question #22
A Transform faults
B Continental rift zones
C Upwelling of magma
D Seafloor spreading
E Island arcs
Question #23
A Wegener
B Wallace
C Saganss
D Darwin
E Köppen
Question #24
A flood basalts
B volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean
C the Hawaiian Islands
D subduction zones on the ocean floor
E Azores Island
Question #25
A The Alps
B Trench
C Island arc
D Subduction
E Mid-oceanic ridge
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 sedimentary chemical and organic
C sedimentary clastic
D igneous extrusive
E igneous intrusive
Question #29
A Köppen
B Hutton
C Aristotle
D Wegener
E Berkeley
Question #30
A pyroclastic material
B silica
C lava
D granite
E magma
Question #31
A Moho
B outer core
C magnetosphere
D asthenosphere
E lithosphere
Question #32
A Aluminum
B Titanium
C Quartz
D Iron
E Basalt
Question #34
A rock
B bedrock
C magma
D soil
E extrusive material
Question #35
A fission
B rotation
C volcanoes
D radioactive decay
E fusion
Question #36
A The Florida peninsula
B The lower Mississippi River Valley
C The Hawaiian Islands
D Southern California
E Western Europe
