The point of maximum oil production

Three factors that affect volcanic eruptions are

Composition of lava, temperature and dissolved gas

The three types of groundwater contaminants are

Biological, radiogenic, stratispheric

Very fine saturated suspensions of ground rock particles

Which are controlling factors of metamorphism (Select all that apply)

Stress, Chemically active fluids, Composition of parent rock, Heat, Pressure

Which are types of metamorphism

Contact metamorphism, Subduction zone metamorphism, Regional metamorphism

What two factors speed up rates of chemical reactions and weathering in rocks and soils

Surface area, chemical composition

Mass wasting can be classified by

Type of material, Type of motion, Rate of motion

Aphantic textures are not

ejected during volcanic eruptions

Why are DNAPLs hard to clean up

Unpredicable, Trapped between fractures in bedrock

What are the most common cementing agents in sedimentary rocks

Calcite, Silicates, and iron oxide

What is an artesian well

Pressure in aquifer > pressure in water table

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1
What type of environment is characterized by brittle deformation
High friction
High temperature
High pressure
High altitude
2
What is peak oil
A method of oil extraction
The point of maximum oil production
An area rich with oil
An oil drilling company
3
A virus fails to be classified as a living organism because
It is not made up of cells
Its too small
It can not reproduce by itself
It does not contain DNA
4
Three factors that affect volcanic eruptions are
Composition of lava, temperature and dissolved gas
Temperature, composition of lava and texture
Composition of lava, location and dissolved gas
Dissolved gas, shape and composition
5
Factor of safety = Resisting forces/Driving forces
True
False
6
The Precambrian Era Accounts for ____% of Earth's History
60%
2%
35%
88%
7
Parts of a fold do not include
Pluge
Limbs
Axis
Anticline
8
Which of these is not a component of solum (true soil)
Residual soil layer
Subsoil
Leached zone
Topsoil
9
Friction coefficient = stress required to slip/ applied normal stress which is equivalent to
Shear force/ Normal force
Total force/ slope
Slope/normal stress
Normal stress/ Shear force
10
The three types of groundwater contaminants are
Biological, radiogenic, stratispheric
PCB, ANCPL, DULPL
Caustic, respiratory, contact
Soluble, dense insoluble, light insoluble
11
What type of rock is kimberlite (the volcanic pipes diamonds are found in) made of
Rhyolitic
Andesitic
Mafic
Ultramafic
12
Sudbury is known for mining
Copper, Nickle
Potash, Uranium
Potash, Uranium
Copper, Uranium
13
Where is erosion concentrated along a meandering stream
Inner bank
The center
Outer bank
Royal bank of Canada
14
What type of volcano is Mt. Garibaldi
Composite/Stratovolcano
Shield
Cinder cone
Friendly
15
___ is the controlling force of mass wasting
Gravity
Saturation of material
Earthquakes
Loss of anchoring material
16
Why can volcanoes on mars reach extreme heights
Very active plate tectonics
Lower gravity
Composition of martian rock is more solid
No plate tectonics
17
Which is not a factor which causes melting to occur
Volatiles being introduced
New rocks being introduced
Pressure dropping
Temperature increasing
18
Which of these is not a soil type
Pedalfer
Pedocal
Laterite
Gullite
19
An atom's atomic number is 92 and its atomic mass is 238, what is the number of neutrons?
27
146
238
330
20
Which is not a benefit of volcanoes
Nuce ardente
Fertile soil
Mineral resources
Hawaii
21
The last minerals to crystallize in Bowen's reaction series result in ___ rocks.
Hard
Intermediate
Felsic
Mafic
22
Tailings are
Collections of valuable ore reserves waiting for transport
Piles of broken rock discarded from the mining operation
Ponds of chemicals that are used in the processing of ore
Very fine saturated suspensions of ground rock particles
23
Stress = Force/Area, Strain = Change in shape/Size of rock
True
False
24
Which are controlling factors of metamorphism (Select all that apply)
Re-crystallization of minerals
Stress, Chemically active fluids
Rotation of platy mineral grains
Composition of parent rock, Heat, Pressure
25
Which are types of metamorphism
Contact metamorphism
Subduction zone metamorphism
Assistant to the regional metamorphism
Regional metamorphism
26
Which is not an igneous texture
Vermiculitic
Glassy
Pegmatitic
Aphanitic
27
The copper metal within oxide ores of copper is extracted by
Acid leaching
Mercury solution
Panning
Smelting
28
What two factors speed up rates of chemical reactions and weathering in rocks and soils
Rainfall, general relativity
Surface area, chemical composition
Chemical composition, rainfall
Surface area, temperature
29
Which is not a form of chemical weathering
Dissolution
Sheeting
Oxidation
Hydrolysis
30
The strong tendencies of certain MINERALS to break along parallel planes is called ____
Foliation
Cleavage
Schist
Bedding
31
Mass wasting can be classified by
Type of material
Slope of cliff
Type of motion
Rate of motion
32
Carbon dating is good for which time range
1 billion - 500 million years ago
10 million - present
2-4 billion years ago
100-200 million years ago
33
Epicenter is the area below the focus
False
True
34
Force changes motion in objects
True
False
35
Aphantic textures are not
ejected during volcanic eruptions
rapidly cooled magma
fine grained
formed with microscopic crystals/bubbles
36
What platy parallel mineral grains are the most visual aspect of foliated metamorphic rock
Horneblende
Feldspar
Mica
Quartz
37
_____ is typically formed by metamorphism of a mature sandstone
Gneiss
Garnet
Schist
Quartz
38
What are the units of flow velocity
Kpa * meter / time
Volume / time
KPa / Volume * time
Time * Volume
39
A reverse fault is when the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall
False
True
40
Which is not a way that sediments are transported downstream
Meandering load movement
Suspended load movement
Bed load movement
Dissolved load movement
41
What force pushes groundwater from pore to pore below the surface
Integrated saturation impulse
Hydraulic gradient
Surface tension
Permeability steepness
42
Why are DNAPLs hard to clean up
Fast flowing
Unpredicable
Soluable
Trapped between fractures in bedrock
43
Pyroclastic textures are not
Ejected during volcanic erruptions
Composed of fused ash and fragments
Cooled rapidly
Cooled very slowly
44
Clay minerals formed from gabbro and diorite bedrock demonstrate
Mechanical weathering
Canadian weathering
Chemical weathering
Differential weathering
45
What is the geoide
Model of mars
Model of the earth
Model of the earth's gravity
Model of the earth's oceans
46
Which is not a mineral class
Silicates
Halides
Sulphates
Chlorates
47
Areas affected by tidal currents are called
Tidal banks
Tidal heads
Tidal areas
Tidal flats
48
Which is not a silicate
Horneblende
Gypsum
Muscovite
Plagioclase
49
What are the most common cementing agents in sedimentary rocks
Magnesium oxide, Silicates and Carbonates
Calcite, Silicates, and iron oxide
Clay, sand and gravel
Sand, Gravel and Till
50
What is an artesian well
Aquifers overlain by aquitard
Pressure in aquifer > pressure in water table
A relatively permeable rock
A body of permeable rock that transmits groundwater
51
What is the major issue with nuclear power
Radiation
Waste
Explosions
Deaths
52
The Geoid is
Important to gravity surveys for detection of anomalies
The result of gravitational variations from core to crust
All of the above
A model of sea level if all the earth were covered in water
53
What is infiltration
The ground seeping into water
Water that seeps into the ground
Water that comes up from the ground
Water that does water stuff (I'm getting tired)
54
Slumps are also known as rotational slides
False
True
55
What is the stream flow equation
V=I*R
You hopefully don't need to know this
HOLY CRAP WHATS THE STREAM FLOW EQUATION
V= (R2/3 * S1/2) / n
56
Which is not a requirement for being a planet
Orbit around a star
Needs to have enough gravity to become spherical
Must be bigger than 1.5 x 10^17m in radius
Cleared its orbit of debris
57
Lahars are debris flow composed of volcanic ash
True
False
58
Which is not a type of detrital sedimentary rock
Siltstone
Sandstone
Conglomerate
Limestone
59
The T-Rex existed in the ____ period
Jurassic
Triassic
Cretaceous
Bombastic
60
Tensional stress changes the shape of a rock body
True
False
61
Types of mass wasting do not include
Creep
Slumping rockfall
Block slide
Rotational landslide
62
Which sedimentary rock is usually bio-chemical in origin
Evaporite
Limestone
Chert
Mudstone
63
Intrusive magmatic deposits concentrate ore minerals primarily by
Fusion
Precipitation
Chemical conversion
Gravitational settling
64
What are the two types of mafic lava flow commonly found in Hawaii
Pahoehoe, aa
Paheyhey, ahhahh
Pohoyhoy, eheh
Pehoyhoy, ahah
65
Volcanic risk does not depend on
Distance and velocity of material movement
Type of erruption
Materials involved
Land use
66
How much energy is released in a magnitude 1 earthquake
630,000 ergs
630,000 watts
630,000 joules
630,000 richters
67
What is the dominant lava type erupted along ocean ridges
Rhyolitic
Felsic
Andesitic
Mafic
68
The purpose of blasting in open pits is to
Create vibrations
Create fine silt sized material that can be shoveled
Move rock from one place to another
Fragment ore into transportable but solid pieces
69
Elastic deformation is not recoverable, brittle and ductile deformations are
False
True
70
The true colour of a mineral as seen in it's powdered powdered form is called it's___
Luster
Colour
Shine
Streak
71
___ causes rocks to crumple in the plane of least stress resulting in deformation
Directed pressure
Directed heat
Uniform pressure
Uniform heat
72
Two types of flow in rivers are
Laminar, Turbulent
Lahar, Cyclic
Turbulent, Lahar
Laminar, Fast
73
Gosh garnet, holy schist call me a _____
Geologist
Botanist
Terrorist
Physicist
74
Slate, Phyllite, Schist and Gneiss are all examples of
Sedimentary rocks
Regional metamorphism
Subduction zone metamorphism
Contact metamorphism
75
A water table is the ___
Boundary between positive and negative fluid pressure
Boundary between the zones of aeration and superposition
boundary surface of the zone of saturation above an aquitard
Boundary between zone of saturation/zone of partly saturated
76
Typically, the mining of 1kg of gold would involve the excavation, transport and processing of
100 cubic meters of rock
100kg of rock
one million kg of rock
1 tonne of rock
77
It is safe to assume the block of rock is 1m thick when calculating slope stability
True
False
78
What characteristic is necessary for a sedimentary rock to contain natural gas
Bedding
Cleavage
Foliation
Porosity
79
Which causes the most damage
P-waves
T-waves
S-waves
Surface waves
80
Compressional stress shortens rock body
False
True
81
___ is a strong, parallel alignment of quartz-mica flakes and/or of different mineral bands
Cleavage
Bedding
Banding
Foliation
82
Which is false about chemically active fluids
Aid in recrystallization
Enhance migration of ions
Change composition of metamorphic rocks
Mainly water with other volatiles
83
The rich orebodies near Sudbury are the result of
Tectonic rifting
An asteroid impact
Placer deposition
Super volcano
84
Permeability is the ability of fluid to flow through a solid
True
False
85
The increase in CO2 levels from 1950 is ___% of the normal range
50
200
100
1000
86
Which is not a method by which glaciers move
Meltwater
Plate tectonics
Basal Slip
Internal deformation
87
Which is not a structural trap of oil
Anticlinal
Salt dome
Synclinal
Fault
88
_____ forms from the metamorphism of limestone or dolostone
Rhyolite
Sandstone
Diorite
Marble
89
Which of the following igneous rock types is named after a mountain range in South America
Chilean
Felsic
Mafic
Andesitic
90
Snowflakes become granular snow when
Temperature is decreased
Air is forced out
Pressure is decreased
Temperature is increased
91
Differential weathering is ___
Another word for mechanical weathering
A combination of chemical and mechanical weathering
Another word for chemical weathering
When rocks do not weather uniformly
92
What is a major source of heat for contact metamorphism
Friction
The sun
Stress
Igneous body nearby
93
The milkankovitch hypothesis does not theorize that
there are variations in the earth's axis angle
the earth's poles switch
the earths axis wobbles
there are variations in the earth's orbit
94
Risk = Likelyhood/Consequence
True
False
95
How much of the total water in the water cycle is runoff
10%
100%
72.5%
50%
96
Which is not a way to protect banks from erosion
RipRap
Placing a dam
Gabians
Stream bed matting
97
Dip is the angle from horizontal to the plane
True
False
98
Which is not a form of sandstone
Quartz
Shale
Arkose
Wacke
99
Which of the following has the same mineral composition as andesite
Diorite
Rhyolite
Basalt
Granite
100
Pluto has mountains made of ____ and oceans made of ____
Water ice, methane/nitrogen
Rock, methane
Diamond, water
Methane/Nitrogen, water
101
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are the result of ___
A fast release of helium ions
Magic
A fast release of magnetic energy
A fast release of hydrogen atoms
102
Elastic modulus = Strain/Stress
False
True
103
The lifeforms of the Ediacaran couldn't survive due to the evolution of ______ in other species
Eyes
Legs
Tails
Teeth
104
___ is a measure of connectedness of pore spaces
Permeosity
Permeability
Potability
Portability
105
What is a polymorph?
A rock composed of different sized pieces
A rock composed of different minerals
A mineral composed of many different elements
Elements that join together in more than 1 way
106
What happens inside a rock when a p-wave passes through
P-waves can not displace rock
The rock moves up and down
The rock compresses and expands causing the ground to buckle
Nothing happens, p-waves only travel through liquids
107
Strain is the change in composition caused by stress
True
False
108
What does h/l mean
Darcy's Law
Hydraulic gradient
Vapor pressure
Pressure
109
What conditions are required for a rock slide
Where joints and fractures are parallel to the slope
Where anchoring vegatation has been lost
Where water has oversaturated the land
Where an earthquake has occured
110
Why are lavas more fine grained than plutons?
They have more time to cool
They are composed of different materials
They have less time to cool
They have different amounts of volatiles
111
Methods of flood control are
Channelization
Floodplain management
Flood-Controlled dams
Artificial levees
112
What is the Eon before the presence of life
Jurassic Eon
Carboniferous Eon
Hadean Eon
Cambrian Eon
113
The geothermal gradient is the____
Temperature decrease per km into the Earth
Difference in temperature between rocks and lava
Temperature variance in different types of magma
Temperature increase per km into the Earth
114
Which is not a form of chemical sedimentary rock
Coal
Chert
Evaporite
Limestone
115
What foundation material is most stable during earthquake shaking
Silts
Sands
Gravels
Bedrock
116
Which is not a form of coal
Lignite
Bituminous
Peat
Anthropecene
117
Room and Pillar mining are good for _____ ore bodies
Horizontal
Copper
Vertical
Trigonal Planar
118
What is fraccing
Obtaining oil from the ground using drills and pumps
Obtaining oil from shale rock using fracture propagation
Fracking? Fraccing? Fraking? Fracing?
Obtaining oil from sand using heat and steam
119
Most lithium used on earth comes from ____
Salt flats
The ocean
Moutains
Deserts
120
Which is false
Friction is shear strength dependent on pressure
Stiffness = relationship between stress/strain before fail
Cohesion is the force divided by the volume
Strength is the stress at failure
121
Mafic lavas generally produce
PAHOEHOE
Explosive erruptions
Nuce ardente
Quiet erruptions
122
Which element is used in nuclear reactors
Uranium 235
Plutonium 239
Uranium 238
Plutonium 238
123
How hot?
Hotter than the earth's core
Mans not hot
Too hot
Hotter than nuclear Fusion
124
Anticline are troughs, Syncline are arches
False
True
125
The _____ is the thinnest layer of the Earth
Core
Mantle
Lithosphere
Crust
126
Density = ratio of mass to water and Specific Gravity = mass/volume
True
False
127
Water pressure acting on a joint plane in a mass of rock does what to sliding stability
Increases it
Does everything
Does nothing
Decreases it
128
In which setting would regional metamorphism be most likely?
At shallow depths where two continents are diverging
At shallow depths where two continents are colliding
At great depths where two continents are colliding
At great depths where two continents are diverging
129
Which of these is phaneritc
Diorite
Basalt
Andesite
Rhyolite
130
Mammals were first seen during the _____ period
Cretaceous
Tertiary
Mammalian
Jurassic
131
Example of a metallic resource would be
Bauxite
Clay
Diamonds
Carbonate minerals
132
Which part of the hydrosphere contains the largest fraction of Earth's liquid freshwater?
Oceans
Ice Sheets/Glaciers
Lakes/Rivers
Groundwater
133
Most crustal deformation occurs in active tectonic zones
True
False
134
What causes plutonic rocks to be seen on the surface?
Volcanic erruption
Weathering
Lava flow
Rivers carrying sediment
135
New seafloor is created at _____ plate boundaries
Diverging
Shearing
Intersecting
Converging
136
Mass wasting is a
Natural process that is never dangerous
Name for homecoming
Disaster and should be stopped
Natural process and is only dangerous when people are nearby
137
Which is not a form of fossilization
Petrification
Recrystallization
Chemical
Trace
138
_____ typically exhibits pyroclastic textures
Volcanic breccia
Mafic rock
Welded tuff
Obsidian
139
What percentage of the Earth's water is in ice sheets
2%
100%
6%
30%
140
What is the role of deuterium (heavy water) in nuclear fission
Speeds up neutrons
Slows down neutrons
Splits nuclei
Facilitates fusion
141
Phaneritic textures are not
coarse grained
slowly cooled
composed with identifiable crystals
formed in very late stages of crystallization
142
Which of these is NOT a physical property of crystals?
Stability
Magnetism
Reaction to acid
Malleability
143
How old is the earth
2017 years
6 Billion
6000 years
4.6 Billion years
144
As a self-contained planet, Earth is divided into several interacting systems called the ____.
Biosphere, Atmosphere, Lithosphere, Spectrosphere
Biosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere, Atmosphere
Biosphere, Hydrosphere, Geosphere, Stratosphere
Biosphere, Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Geosphere
145
Tsunamis are created by
Fault movements
Body waves
Yo momma jumping in a pool
Divergent plates
146
The tendency for minerals such as quartz to break in a smoothly curved manner is called ___.
Clean Fracture
Natural Fracture
Shattering Fracture
Conchoidal Fracture
147
Porphyritic textures are not
composed of microscopic crystals
composed of large crystals within a mass of small crystals
composed of ash and fragments
composed of minerals formed at different rates
148
Geophysical response of geomaterials depends on the relative contributions of
Calcite, quartz and felspar
Solid, liquid and air phases
Mineralogy, cleavage and lattice
Grain size, grain shape and grain density
149
Timmins and Sudbury mining regions are known for the mining of
Copper
Gypsum
Diamonds
Iron
150
The ____, about 100km thick is the coldest, most rigid and most brittle layer in the Earth
Mesosphere
Athenosphere
Lithosphere
Megasphere
151
When glaciers quickly move forward they are said to _____
Surge
Attack
Jump
Volley
152
What is the most likely origin of water on earth
Comet Impacts
Condensation
Fusion of Hydrogen and Oxygen occuring in core
Infiltration
153
Pegmatitic textures are not
formed in late stages of crystallization
very slowly cooled
very coarse grained
rapidly cooled
154
What do nuclear, oil, gas and geothermal have in common
Require fuel
Generate steam to turn turbines
Renewable
No environmental impact
155
Normally routine subsurface exploration in soil is preformed with
Lasers
Tungsten Carbide Drill Bits
Auger Drills
Diamond Drill Bits
156
A hoist can not be formed without a graben
True
False
157
The composition of the Earth's core is thought to be composed of ____.
Magic
Copper and Nickle
Iron and Magnesium
Iron and Nickle
158
Porosity is the volume of occupied space divided by total volume
False
True
159
Which is not a type of mechanical weathering
Frost wedging
Unloading
Dissolution
Sheeting
160
Which living organism does not have a nucleus with the cell
Endosymbiotes
Prokaryotes
Eukaryotes
Viruses
161
Which year has the best meme page
Arts 22
Sci 20
Sci 22
Sci 21
162
On a typical seismogram this wave will show the greatest amplitude
Love wave
Surface wave
S-wave
P-wave
163
Rich ore bodies in Sudbury formed form
Magic
Hydrothermal Vents
Asteroid Impact
Condensation
164
In ___ type of bonding one atom gives up electrons to another.
Ionic
Covalent
Grade 10 chemistry
Dipole-dipole
165
Copper is extracted from ore through the process of
Smelting
Mining
Leaching
Tempering
166
The most severe and long lasting impact of climate change to humans is
Air pollution
Extinction of animals
CO2 in the atmosphere
Raising of sea levels
167
Which is false about the effect of ice ages
They permanently deformed the crust everywhere
They changed the sea level
They created ground water deposits
They forced migration
168
Fastest of all seismic waves are called
P-waves
Radio waves
Surface Waves
S-Waves
169
_____ is the expression of orderly internal arrangement of atoms in a mineral crystal.
Cleavage
Hardness
Crystal Habit
Lustre
170
Which is not true of chert
composed of microcrystalline silica
occurs as tabular layers
found in banded iron formations
is a metamorphic rock
171
Which is not true about internal deformation
Occurs within the ice
The ice at depth is plastic under pressure
The ice at depth has melted, causing slippage
The ice is under pressure at depth
172
Does salmonella always show symptoms
Yes
No
173
Kerogen is
A type of coal
Buried solid organic matter
A mineral
A geological era
174
Why isn't asteroid mining viable
Impossible
Space is scary
Too expensive
Too profitable
175
What are the units of stress
N/m2
Pa
J
Kg/m*s2
176
What are tailings
Copper deposits
Waste
Suspended sediment
Useful ore
177
What is liquefaction
Water being forced out of soil
Soil being saturated
Infiltration
Saturated soil behaving like a liquid
178
Dissolution of minerals occurs because most minerals are ionic crystals and ______
Water has a high degree of friction
Acid exponentially increases corrosive force of H2O
Ionic bonds are weak
Water penetrates gaps between crystals
179
How is shale distinguished from other mudrocks
It is black
It exibits fissility
Its cool
It has foliation
180
Which of these rocks is most likely to contain biotite
Andesitic
Mafic
Felsic
Intermediate
181
The purpose of blasting in open pit mines is
Youtube Videos
Turn rocks into fine sediments
Break up rocks
Launch material out of pit
182
The main use of bauxite is ___.
Copper Production
Aluminum production
Lithium production
Cardboard boxes
183
Definition of risk
Magnitude x cost
Consequence x magnitude
Consequence x probability
Probability x cost
184
Which is not a type of sedimentary rock
Marine
Detrital
Organic
Chemical
185
Ore minerals get concentrated in magma by
Infiltration
Cooling
Suspension
Gravity
186
Metamorphic grade refers to_____
The type of metamorphism
The intensity of metamorphism the rocks have experienced
The temperature metamorphism occured
Your mark on the geology midterm
187
Plutonic rocks are ____
Extrusive igneous rocks
Intrusive sedimentary rocks
Intrusive metamorphic rocks
Intrusive igneous rocks
188
Which is not a control of soil formation
Altitude
Time
Drainage
Parent material
189
Saskatchewan is famous for mining
Iron, Copper
Copper, Nickle
Potash, Copper
Potash, Uranium
190
Cinder cones are
Felsic
Composed of debris from a vent
Short
Composed of igneous rock
191
Graben is formed when two plates diverge and the center block between them drops
True
False
192
The second largest ice sheet in the world is
Iceland
Greenland
Antartica
Canada
193
What does not infiltrate or evaporate becomes
Ground water
Clouds
Runoff
Water
194
____ is the ratio of a weight of mineral to a volume of water of equal weight.
Mass
Specific Gravity
Density
Porosity
195
What don't Jupiter and Saturn have in common
Lots of moons
Gas giants
Mantle of molecular hydrogen
Rings
196
Diamonds are found in rare ultramafic volcanic pipes called
Kimberlite
Volcanite
Rhyolite
Pyroclaste
197
The two main types of bonding that form the structures in minerals are ____.
Dipole-dipole, Covalent
Covalent, Ionic
H-Bonding, Ionic
Covalent, Nuclear
198
Erratics are ______
Boulders found in till or lying free on the ground
Sediments picked up by water
Sediments deposited by glaciers
Weird people
199
Which is the final stage in the coal formation process
Bituminous coal
Peat
Anthracite
Lignite
200
How are icelandic volcanoes related to plate tectonics
Diverging plates
Pyroclastic flow
Converging plates
They aren't
201
Mitigating a landslide can not be done safely by
Using a mesh retaining barrier
Draining water
Removing slope material
Building a concrete retaining barrier
202
Volcanic impact does not depend on
Extent of hazard
Materials involved
Land use
Warning/Willingness to leave
203
Which is not a geological era
Pre-Jurrasic
Jurassic
Pre-Cambrian
Cenozoic
204
What is the vadose zone
Area above saturated zone
Area below zone of saturation
Area saturated with water
Area where water pressure is high
205
Stress is the force applied to a given area
True
False
206
Which is not a component of magma
Melt
Solids
Liquids
Volatiles
207
Which is the correct order of the formation of rivers
Streams->Rivers (The other two don't exist)
Gullies->Rills->Streams->Rivers
Rills->Gullies->Streams->Rivers
Streams->Rills->Gullies->Rivers
208
The San Andreas fault in California is a good example of what?
Transform plates
Diverging plates
Converging plates
Isometric plates
209
Strike is measured 180 degrees to dip direction
True
False
210
Pangea was
A supercontinent
A way of life
An era of earth's geological history
A band
211
The ____ forms the relatively cool, brittle plates of plate tectonics
Core
Atmosphere
Lithosphere
Athenosphere
212
Faults are fractures in rocks
True
False
213
What basic atomic particle occupy space outside of the nucleus
Electrons
Crystals
Neutrons
Protons
214
Which statement describes a positive glacial budget
Zone of fracture > Calving radius
Loss = Accumulation
Accumulation > Loss
Loss > Accumulation
215
Which of the following high silica igneous rocks can float on water
Granite
Rhyolite
Pumice
Diorite

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