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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A radioactive decay
B an inner core of magma
C friction
D the pull of lunar gravity
E plate tectonics
Question #2
A isostasy
B plate tectonics
C monotheism
D catastrophism
Question #3
A mantle
B inner core
C crust
D magma
E outer core
Question #4
A pH
B crystal structure
C color
D petrology
E origin
Question #6
A Mineral is a synonym for rock.
B Fewer than 20 minerals make up 95% of the crust.
C All minerals crystals are too small to be seen.
D More than 500,000 minerals exist.
E All minerals have been discovered.
Question #7
A increasingly older rocks
B little evidence of paleomagnetic reversals of the poles
C the seafloor is drifting opposite to your direction of motion
D increasingly younger rocks
E more and more earthquakes
Question #8
A an environmentally safe extraction method
B natural gas
C conventional extraction
D oil
E fossil fuels in sandstones
Question #9
A 0 centimeters per year (stopped)
B 10 centimeters per year
C 1 kilometer per year
D 10 meters per year
E 100 meters per year
Question #10
A divergent between continental plates
B transducive boundaries between oceanic and continental plates
C divergent between oceanic plates
D convergent between continental plates
E convergent between oceanic plates
Question #11
A convergent
B basalt
C rift
D transcurrent
E divergent
Question #12
A fault scarp
B convergent
C divergent
D transform
E subducting
Question #13
A Numerous joints
B Straight or wavy, banded lines
C Small crystals
D Hollow cores
E Large crystals
Question #14
A toward the Equator
B toward each other
C toward the North Pole
D away from each other
E nowhere
Question #15
A an outcrop
B sediments
C regolith
D bedrock
E soil
Question #16
A Arkansas
B California
C Idaho
D Washington
E Arizona
Question #17
A clastic inclusions
B strata
C detrital striations
D granite
E intrusive exfoliation
Question #18
A atmosphere
B inner core
C crust
D outer core
E aluminum
Question #19
A Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines
B Mt. Novarupta, Alaska
C Hawaiian Islands
D Mt. Unzen, Japan
E Mount St. Helens, Washington
Question #20
A transform fault region
B mid-ocean ridge
C plate
D caldera
E continental shield
Question #21
A It must have economic value.
B It must form a regular pattern of crystals.
C It must be found in nature.
D It must be made up of inorganic substances.
E It must have the same chemical composition wherever found.
Question #22
A Island arcs
B Continental rift zones
C Upwelling of magma
D Seafloor spreading
E Transform faults
Question #23
A Saganss
B Wallace
C Wegener
D Darwin
E Köppen
Question #24
A subduction zones on the ocean floor
B volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean
C Azores Island
D flood basalts
E the Hawaiian Islands
Question #25
A Mid-oceanic ridge
B Trench
C Island arc
D Subduction
E The Alps
Question #27
A not on a plate
B on a transform boundary
C not on a plate boundary
D on a divergent boundary
E on a convergent boundary
Question #28
A igneous intrusive
B sedimentary clastic
C igneous extrusive
D metamorphic foliated
E sedimentary chemical and organic
Question #29
A Berkeley
B Aristotle
C Köppen
D Wegener
E Hutton
Question #30
A magma
B lava
C silica
D granite
E pyroclastic material
Question #31
A outer core
B asthenosphere
C lithosphere
D magnetosphere
E Moho
Question #32
A Iron
B Aluminum
C Titanium
D Quartz
E Basalt
Question #34
A bedrock
B rock
C magma
D extrusive material
E soil
Question #35
A rotation
B volcanoes
C fission
D radioactive decay
E fusion
Question #36
A Southern California
B The lower Mississippi River Valley
C The Hawaiian Islands
D The Florida peninsula
E Western Europe
