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