California Geology Exam 1
Eleven - ANS-How many geomorphic provinces are in California?
12 - ANS-How many fundamental plates are there?
15 cm/year - ANS-How a great deal do plates flow each 12 months?
30% - ANS-What percent of the Earth is land or topography?
70% - ANS-What percentage of the Earth is water or bathymetry?
92 - ANS-How many obviously occurring elements are there?
Active volcanoes - ANS-This kind of volcano has had an eruption in historic time.
Asthenosphere - ANS-What is the top mantle underneath the lithosphere and flows as a
tender plastic solid called?
Basalt - ANS-What rock is discovered within the oceanic crust?
Basin and Range - ANS-In which geomorphic province had been the oldest dwelling things
discovered?
Basin and Range, Mojave Desert, Colorado Desert - ANS-In which geomorphic province/s
are California's deserts located?
Benitoite - ANS-What is California's nation gem?
Big Bend - ANS-What reasons problems in Southern California?
Biochemical tactics - ANS-Limestone and chert each shape through inorganic precipitation
and...
Bristlecone pine - ANS-What is the oldest living issue located in California?
Calcite - ANS-What carbonate is a source of cement?
Cape Mendocino, Cascade Range - ANS-Where is an example of a convergent boundary in
California (also listing geomorphic province)?
Carbonates, sulfates, sulfides, oxides, native factors - ANS-List a few not unusual examples
of non silicates.
, Cascade Range - ANS-In which geomorphic province/s are California's lively volcanoes
located?
Cascade Range - ANS-Which geomorphic province/s are laid low with convergent barriers?
Cascade Range, Great Valley, Transverse Range, Peninsular Range, Colorado Desert,
Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevadas, Mojave Desert, Modoc Plateau, Klamath Mountains, Basin
and Range - ANS-Name all of the California geomorphic provinces
chemical - ANS-What form of sedimentary rocks are formed from dissolved ions in water
thru biochemical, inorganic chemical, or natural approaches?
Chemical bonds - ANS-Looking inside a mineral-ordered atoms are held in vicinity through...
Clastic - ANS-What kind of sedimentary rocks are shaped from suspended particles in water,
ice, or wind?
Clastic, chemical - ANS-What are the 2 varieties of sedimentary rocks?
Coarse - ANS-What is the texture of plutonic rocks?
Coast Ranges - ANS-In which geomorphic province/s are California's inactive volcanoes
found?
Coast Ranges and Transverse Ranges - ANS-In which geomorphic province/s is the San
Andrea Fault placed?
Colour, streak, luster, hardness, unique gravity, crystal dependancy, cleavage - ANS-What
are the common physical homes to search for in minerals?
Colorado Desert - ANS-Where is a divergent boundary forming in California and lengthening
into the Gulf of California?
Compaction - ANS-What form of lithification occurs with/without the cementation of sediment
debris?
Compression - ANS-What type of stress produced the east-west orientation of the
Transverse Ranges and causes many earthquakes?
Conglomerates, sandstone, shale - ANS-List a few examples of clastic sedimentary rocks.
Touch - ANS-What form of method of forming metamorphic rocks involve the
re-crystallization of proliths because of heat?
Contact metamorphic - ANS-What form of rock is marble?
Contact metamorphism - ANS-What sort of metamorphism do nonfoliated metamorphic
rocks form from?
Eleven - ANS-How many geomorphic provinces are in California?
12 - ANS-How many fundamental plates are there?
15 cm/year - ANS-How a great deal do plates flow each 12 months?
30% - ANS-What percent of the Earth is land or topography?
70% - ANS-What percentage of the Earth is water or bathymetry?
92 - ANS-How many obviously occurring elements are there?
Active volcanoes - ANS-This kind of volcano has had an eruption in historic time.
Asthenosphere - ANS-What is the top mantle underneath the lithosphere and flows as a
tender plastic solid called?
Basalt - ANS-What rock is discovered within the oceanic crust?
Basin and Range - ANS-In which geomorphic province had been the oldest dwelling things
discovered?
Basin and Range, Mojave Desert, Colorado Desert - ANS-In which geomorphic province/s
are California's deserts located?
Benitoite - ANS-What is California's nation gem?
Big Bend - ANS-What reasons problems in Southern California?
Biochemical tactics - ANS-Limestone and chert each shape through inorganic precipitation
and...
Bristlecone pine - ANS-What is the oldest living issue located in California?
Calcite - ANS-What carbonate is a source of cement?
Cape Mendocino, Cascade Range - ANS-Where is an example of a convergent boundary in
California (also listing geomorphic province)?
Carbonates, sulfates, sulfides, oxides, native factors - ANS-List a few not unusual examples
of non silicates.
, Cascade Range - ANS-In which geomorphic province/s are California's lively volcanoes
located?
Cascade Range - ANS-Which geomorphic province/s are laid low with convergent barriers?
Cascade Range, Great Valley, Transverse Range, Peninsular Range, Colorado Desert,
Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevadas, Mojave Desert, Modoc Plateau, Klamath Mountains, Basin
and Range - ANS-Name all of the California geomorphic provinces
chemical - ANS-What form of sedimentary rocks are formed from dissolved ions in water
thru biochemical, inorganic chemical, or natural approaches?
Chemical bonds - ANS-Looking inside a mineral-ordered atoms are held in vicinity through...
Clastic - ANS-What kind of sedimentary rocks are shaped from suspended particles in water,
ice, or wind?
Clastic, chemical - ANS-What are the 2 varieties of sedimentary rocks?
Coarse - ANS-What is the texture of plutonic rocks?
Coast Ranges - ANS-In which geomorphic province/s are California's inactive volcanoes
found?
Coast Ranges and Transverse Ranges - ANS-In which geomorphic province/s is the San
Andrea Fault placed?
Colour, streak, luster, hardness, unique gravity, crystal dependancy, cleavage - ANS-What
are the common physical homes to search for in minerals?
Colorado Desert - ANS-Where is a divergent boundary forming in California and lengthening
into the Gulf of California?
Compaction - ANS-What form of lithification occurs with/without the cementation of sediment
debris?
Compression - ANS-What type of stress produced the east-west orientation of the
Transverse Ranges and causes many earthquakes?
Conglomerates, sandstone, shale - ANS-List a few examples of clastic sedimentary rocks.
Touch - ANS-What form of method of forming metamorphic rocks involve the
re-crystallization of proliths because of heat?
Contact metamorphic - ANS-What form of rock is marble?
Contact metamorphism - ANS-What sort of metamorphism do nonfoliated metamorphic
rocks form from?
