Geology

Geology 118 Finals study set ACTUAL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS Which of the following is NOT a source of data used to understand climate? a. Tree ring data b. Liquefaction zones from earthquakes stored in the geologic record c. Historical records d. Direct measurements of temperature in the ocean e. Pollen f. Ice core samples - CORRECT ANSWERSB. Liquefaction zones from earthquakes stored in the geologic record When the Earth warms, won't the areas that we los...

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Geology - Exam With Questions And Answers c. change in rock's size, shape, or volume as a result of differential stress Which of the following best defines strain? a. Brittle At low temperatures (i.e. shallow crustal depths), rocks tend to behave in a ______________ manner and fracture. b. ductile deformation 3. Folds form as a result of ________. c. Basins 4. Large circular downwarped structures are called ________. c. are upfolded or arched sedimentary layers 5. Anti...

Geology Exam Questions With Answers Hurricanes typically form in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres between _______ and ________ degrees. 5 and 20 The greatest loss of life during a natural disaster occurred during ________. the 1900 Galveston hurricane The eye of a hurricane is ________. warmer than the rest of the storm When a hurricane moves onto land, it rapidly loses its punch; that is, the storm declines in intensity. Which of the factors listed below contribute to th...

Geology Exam Questions With Answers Diagenesis refers to ________. physical and chemical alterations, including compaction and cementation, that occur as sediment is transformed into rock Pulling a block of clay apart, resulting in the middle portion thinning and sinking, is an adequate analogy for ________. rift basins and subsidence Lithified detritus (breakdown products of preexisting rocks) forms which kind of sedimentary rock? clastic Cemented shells of marine organisms f...

Geology Exam #1 Questions With Answers Who proposed the theory of Continental Drift? Alfred Wegener. In which ocean are most of the world's convergent plate boundaries located? Pacific Ocean. The east coast of North America is a what boundary? The West coast of South America is what boundary? Not a plate boundary. A convergent plate boundary. What is associated with a divergent plate boundary? Name a divergent plate boundary. Earthquakes, volcanicm and rifting. The mid-at...

Geology Exam #4 Questions With Answers Mass wasting the downslope movement of rock, regolith, snow, or ice due to the pull of gravity Landslide a sudden movement of rock and debris down a nonvertical slope Soil creep the very slow, gradual movement of regolith downslope → driven by expansion and contraction cycles (freeze-thaw and wetting-drying) Failure surface A weak surface that forms the base of a landslide. Slump A semi-coherent volume of regolith that slipped do...

Geology Exam #4 Questions With Answers What is a parent isotope? A daughter? Parent Isotope: An isotope that undergoes decay to form a daughter isotope Daughter Isotope: May be stable or may decay to form another daughter (formed from the parent isotope) What is a half‐life? The time required for 1/2 of a radioactive isotope to decay ion a stable daughter isotope What is meant by mass wasting? The general term for all gravity induced movement of material down a slope. How a...

Geology Exam #4 Questions With Answers Hydrologic Cycle The continuous recycling of water from the oceans, through the atmosphere, to the continents, and back to the oceans Gradient The downhill slope of a river measured as vertical drop/horizontal Velocity The measure of the downstream distance water travels in a given time measure as ft/sec or m/sec Discharge The volume of water in a stream, measured as volume of water that passes a particular point in a given period of tim...

Geology Exam # 3 Questions And Correct Answers Which of the following first appeared in the Mesozoic Era? Dinosaurs Fossils are more likely to be preserved under which conditions? Rapid burial Which of the following first appeared in the Paleozoic Era? Flowering plants, insects, fish, and reptiles The radioactive isotope X, decays to the stable isotope Y. The 1/2 life of this process is 1500 million yrs. If the original amount of X has been reduced by 50%, how old is the rock ...

Geology Exam # 3 Questions And Correct Answers What does uniformitarianism mean? We can interpret the processes that formed ancient rock by examining the processes that form similar rock today. In this illustration, which is a correct interpretation of relative ages? The granite pluton is older than the fault, which is older than the dike. Which of the following is the MOST PRECISE estimate of when the folding occurred? Before the granite pluton intruded, and after intrusion of the...

Geology 1113 Exam #2 Questions With Answers Match the relative dating principles with the correct definition: Superposition The oldest is on the bottom, the youngest on top A mammoth frozen in the Arctic tundra of Siberia would be an example of which type of fossilization? Mummification The fossil record is biased toward preserving organisms with hard parts. True In cast and mold fossilization, the cast is the hollow space in the rock that subsequently becomes filled with mine...

Geology 1113 Exam #2 Questions With Answers Match the relative dating principles with the correct definition: Superposition The oldest is on the bottom, the youngest on top A mammoth frozen in the Arctic tundra of Siberia would be an example of which type of fossilization? Mummification The fossil record is biased toward preserving organisms with hard parts. True In cast and mold fossilization, the cast is the hollow space in the rock that subsequently becomes filled with mine...

Geology 1113 Exam #2 Questions With Answers Match the relative dating principles with the correct definition: Superposition The oldest is on the bottom, the youngest on top A mammoth frozen in the Arctic tundra of Siberia would be an example of which type of fossilization? Mummification The fossil record is biased toward preserving organisms with hard parts. True In cast and mold fossilization, the cast is the hollow space in the rock that subsequently becomes filled with mine...

Geology Exam Past Questions With Correct Answers Graded A+ Which of the following is not one of the three primary ways minerals can form? Erosion Which of the following correctly lists the main soil horizons (in a well-developed soil profile) from the bottom to the top? C horizon, B horizon, E horizon, A horizon, O horizon Submarine volcanos are called ________ and are most commonly composed of _________. seamounts, basalt Which of the following rocks would most likely experie...