Geology Test 2004-05

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  1. What instrument is used to detect and record seismic waves?

    2. Your answer:
    seismograph
    barometer
    Mercalli scale
    Richter scale

  2. What kind of mountains have formed when tectonic movements have squeezed rock layers together like and accordian?

    3. Your answer:
    fault block
    volcanic
    folded
    dome

  3. How many major types of seismic waves does every earthquake produce?

    4. Your answer:
    2
    3
    4
    5

  4. What kind of boundary is formed by the direct collision of two lithopheric plates?

    5. Your answer:
    subduction zone
    divergent
    convergent
    slide

  5. What kind of waves can travel through solids and liquids and are the fastest moving seismic waves?

    6. Your answer:
    surface
    long
    secondary
    primary

  6. What major earthquake zone houses Mount Rainer, Mount Saint Helens and Mount Hood?

    7. Your answer:
    Pacific Ring of Fire
    Mid Ocean Ridges
    Eurasian Belt
    Melanesian Belt

  7. What type of fault is the San Andreas Fault, which runs through California?

    8. Your answer:
    strike slip
    normal
    reverse
    thrust

  8. What is another name for composite cones?

    9. Your answer:
    strato volcano
    sheild
    mountain
    cinder

  9. What kinds of mountains are Mount Hood in Oregon and Mount Saint Helens in Washington?

    10. Your answer:
    fault block
    volcanic
    folded
    dome

  10. What are the series of small tremors that occur after an earthquake?

    11. Your answer:
    faults
    reversal
    shock waves
    aftershocks

  11. What does the intensity of a earthquake determine?

    12. Your answer:
    focus
    location
    size
    damage

  12. Where is the safest place to be during an earthquake if you are indoors?

    13. Your answer:
    under a light
    by a window
    in bed
    in a doorway

  13. What kind of boundary is formed by two lithospheric plates moving apart?

    14. Your answer:
    subduction zone
    divergent
    convergent
    slide

  14. What is the region in which one lithospheric plate moves under another?

    15. Your answer:
    subduction zone
    divergent
    convergent
    slide

  15. What major earthquake zone is also a major zone of active volcanoes caused by subducting plates that encircle the Pacific Ocean?

    16. Your answer:
    Pacific Ring of Fire
    Mid Ocean Ridges
    Eurasian Belt
    Melanesian Belt

  16. What are the two most abundant elements in the earth's crust?

    17. Your answer:
    oxygen/silicon
    calcium/carbon
    carbon/silicon
    nitrogen/oxygen

  17. What is the most abundant fossil fuel in the world?

    18. Your answer:
    coal
    natural gas
    peat
    petroleum

  18. What is brown coal?

    19. Your answer:
    bituminous
    anthracite
    peat
    lignite

  19. What term is used to describe igneous rocks that cool slowly from magma deep below the crust?

    20. Your answer:
    intrusive
    massive
    plutonic
    extrusive

  20. What is the powdered form of a mineral that allows a clue to the minerals identity?

    21. Your answer:
    color
    luster
    streak
    dust

  21. What country is a part of the Mid Atlantic Ridge, that is above sea level?

    22. Your answer:
    Norway
    Japan
    Finland
    Iceland

  22. What are deposits of minerals from which metal and nonmetals can be removed profitably?

    23. Your answer:
    streaks
    lodes
    ores
    veins

  23. What type of volcanic cones generally have very steep slopes and are made up of solid fragments, ejected from a volcano?

    24. Your answer:
    stratovolcano
    sheid
    composite
    cinder

  24. How many seismograph stations of information are needed for scientists to locate the epicenter of an earthquake?

    25. Your answer:
    5
    4
    3
    2

  25. What volcanic cones are broad at the base and have gently sloping sides?

    26. Your answer:
    stratovolcano
    sheild
    composite
    cinder

  26. What is the name for the hardness scale used to help identify minerals?

    27. Your answer:
    Moh's
    Richter's
    Mercalli's
    Barton's

  27. What is the form of vibration energy that rocks release along a fault?

    28. Your answer:
    natural
    seismic waves
    volcanic
    tremors

  28. What is the hardest mineral in the world?

    29. Your answer:
    hematite
    galena
    diamond
    gold

  29. What kind of seismic waves can only travel through solid material?

    30. Your answer:
    surface
    long
    secondary
    primary

  30. What major type of rock is marble?

    31. Your answer:
    mineral
    igneous
    sedimentary
    metamorphic

  31. Wha tis light reflected from the surface of a mineral called?

    32. Your answer:
    color
    luster
    streak
    reflection

  32. What is a mineral's ability to resist scratchng called?

    33. Your answer:
    luster
    streak
    resilience
    hardness

  33. What is the softest mineral on the hardness scale?

    34. Your answer:
    silver
    talc
    tin
    aluminum

  34. What type of volcano is the most violent and catastrophic when it erupts?

    35. Your answer:
    dome
    composite
    cinder
    sheild

  35. What term is used to describe igneous rocks that cool from lava rapidly on the earth's surface?

    36. Your answer:
    intrusive
    massive
    plutonic
    extrusive

  36. What do scientists use to measure the magnitude of an earthquake?

    37. Your answer:
    seismograph
    Mercalli scale
    Richter scale
    elastic rebound

  37. What is used to measure the intensity of an earthquake?

    38. Your answer:
    seismograph
    Mercalli scale
    Richter scale
    elastic rebound

  38. What igneous rock has sponge like appearance and may actually float?

    39. Your answer:
    obsidian
    pumice
    gneiss
    chalk

  39. What kind of seismic waves cause the most damage during an earthquake?

    40. Your answer:
    P waves
    L waves
    S waves
    R waves

  40. What is the point on the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake?

    41. Your answer:
    slide
    fracture
    epicenter
    focus

  41. What type of rock is formed from cooled and hardened magma?

    42. Your answer:
    mineral
    metamorphic
    sedimentary
    igneous

  42. What type of rock is formed from hardened deposits of sediment?

    43. Your answer:
    mineral
    metamorphic
    sedimentary
    igneous

  43. What kinds of fossils do paleontologists use to establish the relative ages of the rock layers in which the fossils are formed?

    44. Your answer:
    fauna
    flora
    radioactive
    index

  44. Wht does clearing trees and small plants and allowing animals to over graze increase?

    45. Your answer:
    soil erosion
    chemical erosion
    weathering
    crop production

  45. What occurs in dry mountainous regions in dry heavy rainfall, or as a result of volcanic eruptions?

    46. Your answer:
    calderas
    pot holes
    glaciers
    mud flows

  46. What type of rock is formed from other rocks as a result of intense heat, pressure or chemical processes?

    47. Your answer:
    mineral
    metamorphic
    sedimentary
    igneous

  47. Who was the German scientist who proposed the hypothesis in 1912 which stated that the continents had moved?

    48. Your answer:
    Alfred Wegener
    Gerard Gerhart
    Albert Einstein
    Herman Hess

  48. What was the name given to the single land mass that drifted apart to form continents?

    49. Your answer:
    Tythes
    Laurasia
    Pangea
    Gondwanaland

  49. What is the term for time required for half the mass of a radioactive element tot decay into its daoughter elements?

    50. Your answer:
    break down
    dissolvability
    cementation
    half life

  50. What are the remains or traces of animals or plants from a previous geologic time?

    51. Your answer:
    petroliths
    hieroglyphics
    fossils
    coal

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