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1

Cliffs formed as a result of faulting are called
A)synclines
B)fault scarps
C)fault cliffs
D)fault walls
2

The German meteorologist who proposed the theory of continental drift was
A)Alfred Wegener
B)William Herschel
C)Friedrich Bessel
D)Victor Hess
3

Chesapeake Bay is an example of a(n)
A)delta
B)water table
C)drowned valley
D)aquifer
4

The breakup of Pangaea began about
A)30 million years ago
B)60 million years ago
C)145 million years ago
D)200 million years ago
5

Present-day continents that were once part of Gondwana do not include
A)South America
B)Africa
C)Australia
D)Greenland
6

The crust and the outermost part of the mantle make up the
A)asthenosphere
B)outer core
C)lithosphere
D)Moho
7

Compared to continental crust, ocean floor crust is
A)much younger
B)much older
C)slightly older
D)about the same age
8

All the following geological features could be formed where plates collide except
A)midocean ridges
B)mountain ranges
C)volcanoes
D)island arcs
9

The type of fault that occurs where two plates slide past each other is a
A)normal fault
B)thrust fault
C)transform fault
D)reverse fault
10

At a subduction zone
A)the sea floor spreads apart
B)one lithospheric plate is forced under another
C)molten rock rises to the surface
D)new crust is forming
11

New lithosphere is created at _________ and destroyed at _________ .
A)midocean ridges, subduction zones
B)subduction zones, midocean ridges
C)transform faults, unconformities
D)unconformities, transform faults
12

The Himalayas were formed as a result of
A)diverging lithospheric plates
B)oceanic-continental plate collision
C)oceanic-oceanic plate collision
D)continental-continental plate collision
13

Bishop James Ussher used biblical accounts to determine that the earth was created in the year
A)6002 B.C.
B)4004 B.C.
C)1604 B.C.
D)2006 B.C.
14

The ratio of 14C to 12C in a sample of dead animal or plant tissue indicates
A)how long the animal or plant lived
B)the elapsed time since the death of the organism
C)how rapidly radiocarbon is expelled from the organism's tissues
D)the tolerance of the organism to radioactive 14C
15

The phrase "Cambrian explosion" refers to
A)extensive volcanism at the end of the Cambrian period
B)a mass extinction at the end of the Cambrian period triggered by a meteorite impact
C)an increase in the diversity of living organisms beginning in the Cambrian period
D)the rapid accumulation of molecular oxygen in the earth's atmosphere
16

Which one of the following represents the longest time span?
A)Cenozoic Era
B)Paleozoic Era
C)Mesozoic Era
D)Precambrian time
17

If you could travel back in time to the time of the dinosaurs, in which unit of geologic time would you be?
A)Cenozoic Era
B)Mesozoic Era
C)Paleozoic Era
D)Carboniferous Period
18

Pterosaurs were
A)the ancestors of modern birds
B)flying reptiles
C)marine reptiles
D)small, carnivorous dinosaurs
19

Pangaea split into Laurasia and Gondwana during
A)Precambrian time
B)the Paleozoic Era
C)the Mesozoic Era
D)the Cenozoic Era
20

The Ice Ages occurred during the
A)Late Cretaceous Period
B)Paleocene Epoch
C)Pliocene Epoch
D)Pleistocene Epoch





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