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GL 101 FINAL Exam 2026-2027 COMPLETE 200
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST
UPDATE THIS YEAR
QUESTION: Wegener's supercontinent that began to break up about 200 million years ago was
named
A) Gondwanaland
B) Laurasia
C) Pangaea
D) Rodinia - ANSWER-C
QUESTION: According to Wegener, where was southern Africa located during the Late
Paleozoic?
A) up by the north pole
B) 30° south of the equator
C) along the equator
D) over the south pole - ANSWER-D
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QUESTION: The ________ forms the relatively cool, brittle plates of plate tectonics.
A) asthenosphere
B) lithosphere
C) astrosphere
D) eosphere - ANSWER-B
QUESTION: A typical rate of lithospheric (tectonic) plate movement is ________.
A) 2 metres per year
B) 0.1 centimetres per year
C) 20 metres per year
D) 5 centimetres per year - ANSWER-D
Q;The Precambrian (Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic Eons) accounts for ________.
A) the first 88% of Earth history and the geologic time scale
B) the segment of geologic time prior to uniformitarianism taking effect
C) all of the periods after the Permian
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D) the first 8% of Earth history - ANSWER-A
QUESTION: Which sequence is in the correct order through time for "fossil succession"
assuming strata successively from: Late Precambrian, Cambrian, Silurian, Jurassic, Tertiary
A) multicelled organisms, hardbodied marine invertebrates, first land plants, dinosaurs,
mammals
B) flowering plants, birds, reptiles, first trees, first fishes, blue green algae
C) one-celled organisms, first fishes, first amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs
D) land plants, insects, marine plants, trilobites, humans - ANSWER-A
QUESTION: The ________ theory is the leading hypothesis that describes the formation of the
Sun, Earth, and other planets of the solar system
A) planoassemblar
B) nebular
C) astrostellar
D) solar flareup - ANSWER-B
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QUESTION: The Earth's core was formed from ________.
A) a massive nickle iron asteroid that was the nucleus upon which Earth condensed
B) high density radioactive carbon
C) the left over nickle and iron that would not fit into the earlier formed crust and mantle
D) molten iron and nickle that separated from silicates and sank due to its higher density -
ANSWER-D
QUESTION: In the early part of the 20th century, ________ argued forcefully for continental
drift.
A) Karl Wagner
B) Edwin Rommel
C) Alfred Wegener
D) Alfred the Great - ANSWER-C
QUESTION: Pangaea was ________.
A) a large, ocean basin that opened in the Triassic and closed in the Paleocene
GL 101 FINAL Exam 2026-2027 COMPLETE 200
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST
UPDATE THIS YEAR
QUESTION: Wegener's supercontinent that began to break up about 200 million years ago was
named
A) Gondwanaland
B) Laurasia
C) Pangaea
D) Rodinia - ANSWER-C
QUESTION: According to Wegener, where was southern Africa located during the Late
Paleozoic?
A) up by the north pole
B) 30° south of the equator
C) along the equator
D) over the south pole - ANSWER-D
,Page 2 of 70
QUESTION: The ________ forms the relatively cool, brittle plates of plate tectonics.
A) asthenosphere
B) lithosphere
C) astrosphere
D) eosphere - ANSWER-B
QUESTION: A typical rate of lithospheric (tectonic) plate movement is ________.
A) 2 metres per year
B) 0.1 centimetres per year
C) 20 metres per year
D) 5 centimetres per year - ANSWER-D
Q;The Precambrian (Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic Eons) accounts for ________.
A) the first 88% of Earth history and the geologic time scale
B) the segment of geologic time prior to uniformitarianism taking effect
C) all of the periods after the Permian
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D) the first 8% of Earth history - ANSWER-A
QUESTION: Which sequence is in the correct order through time for "fossil succession"
assuming strata successively from: Late Precambrian, Cambrian, Silurian, Jurassic, Tertiary
A) multicelled organisms, hardbodied marine invertebrates, first land plants, dinosaurs,
mammals
B) flowering plants, birds, reptiles, first trees, first fishes, blue green algae
C) one-celled organisms, first fishes, first amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs
D) land plants, insects, marine plants, trilobites, humans - ANSWER-A
QUESTION: The ________ theory is the leading hypothesis that describes the formation of the
Sun, Earth, and other planets of the solar system
A) planoassemblar
B) nebular
C) astrostellar
D) solar flareup - ANSWER-B
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QUESTION: The Earth's core was formed from ________.
A) a massive nickle iron asteroid that was the nucleus upon which Earth condensed
B) high density radioactive carbon
C) the left over nickle and iron that would not fit into the earlier formed crust and mantle
D) molten iron and nickle that separated from silicates and sank due to its higher density -
ANSWER-D
QUESTION: In the early part of the 20th century, ________ argued forcefully for continental
drift.
A) Karl Wagner
B) Edwin Rommel
C) Alfred Wegener
D) Alfred the Great - ANSWER-C
QUESTION: Pangaea was ________.
A) a large, ocean basin that opened in the Triassic and closed in the Paleocene
