PHYSICAL GEOLOGY REVIEW TIPS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Most earthquakes occur at divergent plate boundaries. - ✔✔False
✔✔Earth's great recycling engine, perpetually renewing and destroying rock and
ultimately providing humans with critically important natural resources, is called:
A paleomagnetism.
B the rock cycle.
C plate tectonics.
D chemical differentiation
E orogenesis. - ✔✔B
✔✔Which of the following components are involved in the rock cycle?
A biosphere
B crust
C mantle
D All of the choices are correct.
E hydrosphere - ✔✔D
✔✔Which plate movement mechanism depends on the gravitational slope from the
crest of oceanic ridges all the way down to the base of deep-sea trenches to help pull
the plate downhill and ultimately subduct it?
A the ridge slide mechanism
B the crest to base mechanism
C the trenching mechanism
D the gravitational subduction mechanism
E the sloping mechanism - ✔✔A
✔✔Subduction zones usually occur very close to spreading centers. - ✔✔False
✔✔One hypothesis that geologists have proposed that answers the question "What
causes plates to move?" involves convection cells in the upper mantle that actually drag
on the underside of plates, inciting movement. - ✔✔True
, ✔✔Which of the following men was responsible for the rock cycle concept?
A Charles Darwin
B Nicolas Steno
C Sir Charles Lyell
D James Hutton
E William Smith - ✔✔D
✔✔Three plate boundaries, defined by relative motion, are: (Select all that apply.)
A Lateral
B Spreading center
C Transform
D Converging
E Diverging
F Convergent
G Divergent
H Strike slip
I Hotspot - ✔✔divergent, convergent, and transform
✔✔How is Earth organized?
A Earth has an inner mantle and an outer lithosphere, with a liquid inner core.
B Earth's crust rests atop the liquid mantle and the solid outer core.
C The inner core is solid, the mantle is solid, and the crust is solid under the continents
and liquid under the oceans.
D Earth has an inner and outer core, a mantle, and a crust. - ✔✔D
✔✔The Himalayan Mountains are an example of:
A A subduction zone.
B Continent-continent convergence.
C Extraterrestrial impact.
D Continent-ocean convergence. - ✔✔B
✔✔The rock cycle is a concept that:
A Has no relationship to plate tectonics.
B Was first described only two decades ago.
C Describes the recycling of rock.
D Is not a well-accepted hypothesis. - ✔✔C
✔✔Magnetic reversals are caused by:
A Unknown causes.
B Faster subduction rates across Earth.
C Lunar gravitational effects.
D Changes in the rate at which Earth orbits the Sun.
E Impacts of extraterrestrial objects. - ✔✔A
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Most earthquakes occur at divergent plate boundaries. - ✔✔False
✔✔Earth's great recycling engine, perpetually renewing and destroying rock and
ultimately providing humans with critically important natural resources, is called:
A paleomagnetism.
B the rock cycle.
C plate tectonics.
D chemical differentiation
E orogenesis. - ✔✔B
✔✔Which of the following components are involved in the rock cycle?
A biosphere
B crust
C mantle
D All of the choices are correct.
E hydrosphere - ✔✔D
✔✔Which plate movement mechanism depends on the gravitational slope from the
crest of oceanic ridges all the way down to the base of deep-sea trenches to help pull
the plate downhill and ultimately subduct it?
A the ridge slide mechanism
B the crest to base mechanism
C the trenching mechanism
D the gravitational subduction mechanism
E the sloping mechanism - ✔✔A
✔✔Subduction zones usually occur very close to spreading centers. - ✔✔False
✔✔One hypothesis that geologists have proposed that answers the question "What
causes plates to move?" involves convection cells in the upper mantle that actually drag
on the underside of plates, inciting movement. - ✔✔True
, ✔✔Which of the following men was responsible for the rock cycle concept?
A Charles Darwin
B Nicolas Steno
C Sir Charles Lyell
D James Hutton
E William Smith - ✔✔D
✔✔Three plate boundaries, defined by relative motion, are: (Select all that apply.)
A Lateral
B Spreading center
C Transform
D Converging
E Diverging
F Convergent
G Divergent
H Strike slip
I Hotspot - ✔✔divergent, convergent, and transform
✔✔How is Earth organized?
A Earth has an inner mantle and an outer lithosphere, with a liquid inner core.
B Earth's crust rests atop the liquid mantle and the solid outer core.
C The inner core is solid, the mantle is solid, and the crust is solid under the continents
and liquid under the oceans.
D Earth has an inner and outer core, a mantle, and a crust. - ✔✔D
✔✔The Himalayan Mountains are an example of:
A A subduction zone.
B Continent-continent convergence.
C Extraterrestrial impact.
D Continent-ocean convergence. - ✔✔B
✔✔The rock cycle is a concept that:
A Has no relationship to plate tectonics.
B Was first described only two decades ago.
C Describes the recycling of rock.
D Is not a well-accepted hypothesis. - ✔✔C
✔✔Magnetic reversals are caused by:
A Unknown causes.
B Faster subduction rates across Earth.
C Lunar gravitational effects.
D Changes in the rate at which Earth orbits the Sun.
E Impacts of extraterrestrial objects. - ✔✔A
