Here is an opportunity for you to test your knowledge of the concepts covered in Chapter 1 of your text. Take some time to complete the exam below to see how much you have learned. Have a contest with your roommate to see who can do better - AND THE LOSER DOES DISHES!
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Which of the following is NOT a type of plate boundary?
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| | A) | convergent boundary |
| | B) | divergent boundary |
| | C) | translational |
| | D) | transform |
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In which scenario below would you be likely to hire a geologist to help better understand the situation?
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| | A) | A small community is worried about contamination of their water wells from an industrial waste site. |
| | B) | A space craft uses radar to map the surface of a planet in our Solar System. |
| | C) | A volcano is erupting on a Pacific island. |
| | D) | Geologists might be employed in all of these scenarios! |
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In which of the following is geological knowledge useful?
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| | A) | Avoiding geologic and other natural hazards. |
| | B) | Supplying things we need. |
| | C) | Protecting the environment. |
| | D) | All of these are areas where geological knowledge is useful! |
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What process caused the greatest number of fatalities during the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake?
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| | A) | Great chasms opened in the Earth and swallowed people whole. |
| | B) | Large objects (like buildings and highway overpasses) fell on people. |
| | C) | Fires erupted following the earthquake, trapping many people in burning buildings. |
| | D) | City sewer systems failed causing epidemics of diseases like cholera and typhoid. |
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What process caused the greatest number of fatalities during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in California?
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| | A) | Fires erupted after the earthquake and trapped many people in burning buildings. |
| | B) | City water treatment facilities failed and cause epidemics of water-borne diseases like dysintery. |
| | C) | Landslides in coastal mountains of California buried whole neighborhoods. |
| | D) | Large objects (like buildings and highway overpasses) fell on people. |
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During large earthquakes, what process is responsible for the greatest number of fatalities?
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| | A) | Large objects (like buildings and highway overpasses) fall on people. |
| | B) | Fires erupt trapping many people inside burning buildings. |
| | C) | Sanitary facilities fail, causing widespread disease. |
| | D) | People are buried alive by great landslides and open chasms in the Earth. |
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Earth's external heat engine is driven by what source of energy?
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| | A) | Petroleum. |
| | B) | Natural gas. |
| | C) | Coal. |
| | D) | The Sun. |
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The most voluminous portion of the Earth is known to geologists as:
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| | A) | The crust. |
| | B) | The lithosphere. |
| | C) | The mantle. |
| | D) | The core. |
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The lithosphere is that portion of the Earth where rocks behave as:
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| | A) | Brittle solids. |
| | B) | Plastic solids. |
| | C) | Fluids. |
| | D) | Rocks. |
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Many divergent plate boundaries coincide with:
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| | A) | transform faults. |
| | B) | explosive volcanic eruptions. |
| | C) | the edges of the continents. |
| | D) | the Mid-Ocean Ridge. |
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At transform plate boundaries,
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| | A) | Two plates slip horizontally past each other. |
| | B) | Two plates move in opposite directions toward each other. |
| | C) | Two plates move in opposite directions away from each other. |
| | D) | Two plates are subducted beneath each other. |
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A typical rate of plate motion is:
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| | A) | 3 - 4 centimeters per year. |
| | B) | 1 - 18 centimeters per year. |
| | C) | 1 kilometer per year |
| | D) | 1,000 kilometers per year |
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Earthquakes may be caused by:
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| | A) | movement of tectonic plates. |
| | B) | motion along faults in Earth's crust. |
| | C) | shifting of bedrock. |
| | D) | all of these |
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The division of geology that is concerned with Earth materials, changes in the surface and interior of the Earth, and the dynamic forces that cause those changes is:
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| | A) | physical geology |
| | B) | historical geology |
| | C) | geophysics |
| | D) | paleontology |
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Which of the following are geologic hazards?
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| | A) | earthquakes. |
| | B) | volcanoes. |
| | C) | waves pounding on a coast. |
| | D) | all of these are geologic hazards. |
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Plate tectonics is:
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| | A) | an hypothesis |
| | B) | a conjecture |
| | C) | a theory. |
| | D) | the rawest of speculation. |
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Geologists are generally agreed that Earth is:
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| | A) | as old as the hills and twice as dusty. |
| | B) | about 6,000 years old. |
| | C) | about 4.55 billion years old. |
| | D) | about 100 million years old. |
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A subduction zone is most likely to be encountered:
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| | A) | at a convergent plate boundary. |
| | B) | at a divergent plate boundary |
| | C) | at a transform plate boundary |
| | D) | at a translational plate boundary. |
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Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic are:
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| | A) | the three major classes of rocks. |
| | B) | three words that I never heard before. |
| | C) | three words composed of multiple syllables. |
| | D) | three types of plate boundaries. |
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This practice exam was:
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| | A) | challenging and fun. |
| | B) | challenging, but took too much time. |
| | C) | a complete waste of my time. |
| | D) | only worthwhile if some of the questions show up on my exam next week. |
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