Geology Test Review

Question 1

What is the seismic wave that causes motion at right angles to which the wave is moving?

Accepted Answer

Secondary Wave

Question 2

What type of boundary is between the Pacific and Philippine Plates?

Accepted Answer

Convergent

Question 3

What type of fault is shown?

Accepted Answer

Normal Fault

Question 4

What type of fault is shown?

Accepted Answer

Strike-Slip Fault

Question 5

What type of boundary occurs between the Antarctic and the African plates?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Question 6

What produces the forces that form volcanoes and cause earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

Tectonic Plate Motion

Question 7

How is a rift valley formed?

Accepted Answer

Diverging Plates

Question 8

What is the boundary where two plates move together?

Accepted Answer

Convergent

Question 9

What type of volcano is shown?

Accepted Answer

Shield Volcano

Question 10

What is the boundary when two plate slide past one another?

Accepted Answer

Transform

Question 11

What is continental drift?

Accepted Answer

Hypothesis that continents have slowly moved over time.

Question 12

The Richter Scale is...

Accepted Answer

Based on amplitude, scale of 0-8

Question 13

What type of volcano is made of alternating layers of lava and rock and has steep sides?

Accepted Answer

Composite Volcano

Question 14

What is the seismic wave that causes motion in the same direction of its movement?

Accepted Answer

Primary Wave

Question 15

What is the most destructive wave?

Accepted Answer

Surface Wave

Question 16

What type of volcano has explosive, short-lived eruptions?

Accepted Answer

Cinder Cone Volcano

Question 17

A strike-slip fault is caused by...

Accepted Answer

shear forces

Question 18

What layers make up the lithosphere?

Accepted Answer

Crust and Upper Mantle

Question 19

What type of fault is this?

Accepted Answer

Reverse Fault

Question 20

What is the boundary where two plates move apart?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Question 21

What type of volcano has easy flowing basaltic lava, gently sloping sides, largest of volcanoes

Accepted Answer

Shield Volcano

Question 22

What causes plate motion?

Accepted Answer

Convection currents

Question 23

Order the names of the seismic waves.

Accepted Answer

P Wave, S Wave, Surface Wave

Question 24

What is used to measure earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

Seismograph

Question 25

What does the forcefulness of an eruption depend on?

Accepted Answer

Composition of magma

Question 26

How are mountain ranges formed?

Accepted Answer

Converging Plates

Question 27

What determines the type of volcano formed?

Accepted Answer

type of lava and gases contained

Question 28

What is the point on Earth's surface where earthquakes begin?

Accepted Answer

Epicenter

Question 29

A reverse fault is caused by...

Accepted Answer

compression forces

Question 30

A normal fault is caused by...

Accepted Answer

tension forces

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