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Geology 1110 Final Exam Questions With Verified Solutions The ocean's oldest sediments are found - answerfar from spreading centers Where you can find the youngest rocks on the ocean floor? - answermid ocean ridges the plastic layer in the upper mantle just below the lithosphere is called the - answerasthenosphere New oceanic crust is produced - answerat divergent plate boundaries Movement of the plates ranges from - answer1 to 20 cm a year Magnetic stripes (zones with opposite magnetic...

ERSC 181 WEEK 8 Exam Questions and Answers 2023 – all Correct. The number one factor causing landslides is (are) _____.  A. precipitation  B. volcanic eruptions  C. earthquakes  D. glaciation  E. freeze-thaw cycles Question 4 of 50 2.0/ 2.0 Points Shield volcanoes consist of _________.  A. Mostly low viscosity basalt flows with a lower silica content.  B. A combination of granitic lava and pyroclastic material with some rhyolite.  C. Explosive pyroclastic mat...

Marine Science Module 2 Questions and Answers Already Passed What is the Contraction Theory? As the Earth cooled after formation, the surface contracted and wrinkled. Mountain ranges were forced up by the wrinkling process. The cooling and wrinkling slowed and eventually stopped over millions of years. What is the Theory of Continental Drift? In 1915, Alfred Wegener published "The Origin of Continents and Oceans" to explain the idea that the seven continents we know today were once a single l...

Earth Science Final Exam Questions With Correct Answers Latest 2024/2025 | Graded A+. The closer isolines are... - ANSWER the steeper the gradient (diagram: North side is steepest) 3. The altitude of Polaris equals... - ANSWER the latitude of the observer Diagram: Observer's altitude = 66.5 degrees North 4. The Earth rotates - ANSWER West to east 15 degrees per hour in 24 hours or one day 5. Latitude lines run Longitude lines run - ANSWER east-west, but measure north or south of the equ...

Geology 111 Exam Questions With Verified Solutions Tectonic processes - answerupwelling of magma, plate movement, subduction of crust, folding, faulting, warping, fracturing, earthquakes, volcanic activity, magmatism, ocean ridges, rift valleys, trenches, collision, continental rifting, mountain formation Tectonic characteristics - answerLandforms: volcanoes, earthquakes, faults, mountain ranges, mid ocean ridge, deep ocean trenches, rift valleys Earthquakes occur - answerWhen brittle roc...

What are the 4 layers of earth - Answer-Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core Where is the lithosphere located? - Answer-Upper mantle plus crust Where is the asthenosphere located? - Answer-Middle mantle What are the 3 types of boundaries? - Answer-Divergent, convergent, and tranform Warm air rises or sinks? - Answer-Rises How can heat be transferred? - Answer-from hot objects to cold objects in three ways; convection, conduction, and radiation Continental crust is made out of what? - Ans...

EARTHSCI 1G03 EXAM REVIEW | latest 2023/24 Age of Earth - 4.6 billion years Seismometer - Instrument used to measure horizontal or vertical motion during an earthquake. Uniformitarianism - The past geological events can be explained by forces occurring today Alfred Wegener - A German scientist who proposed the theroy of continental drift Geologic evidence of continental drift - -rock units on different continents have similar structure Mid Ocean Ridges - -submerged mountain regions...

How much solar radiation is absorbed by the land and sea? Correct Answer 50% of the solar radiation that reaches the Earth. What the the core Nature of Science ideas? Correct Answer -Science demands and relies on empirical evidence -There is no single step-by-step scientific method by which all science is done -Scientific knowledge is tentative but durable -Laws and theories are related by distinct kinds of scientific knowledge -Science is a highly creative endeavor -Science is a subject...

AICE Marine Science Unit 2: Ocean Floor and the Coast 100% Correct tectonic processess - Correct Answer ️️ -movements of the lithosphere resulting in volcanoes, hydrothermal vents, earthquakes, tsunamis, mid-ocean ridges and ocean trenches theory of plate tectonics - Correct Answer ️️ -states that the Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into plates (huge rock slabs) that move according to convection currents in the earth's mantle in different directions and at different ra...

Earth Science Final Exam Questions and Answers Latest Updated 2024/2025 Graded A+. The same objects have the - ANSWER same density (NO MATTER WHAT SIZE) 2. The closer isolines are... - ANSWER the steeper the gradient (diagram: North side is steepest) 3. The altitude of Polaris equals... - ANSWER the latitude of the observer Diagram: Observer's altitude = 66.5 degrees North 4. The Earth rotates - ANSWER West to east 15 degrees per hour in 24 hours or one day 5. Latitude lines run Longit...