GEOL exam 1 Actual Exam With Detailed Correct Answers.
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Which of the following provide scientists with evidence that Earth's interior has distinct layers? - correct answer Behavior of seismic waves traveling through Earth's interior
Which of the following best describes Earth's outer core? - correct answ...
GEOL exam 1
Which of the following provide scientists with evidence that Earth's interior has distinct layers? - correct answer Behavior of seismic waves traveling through Earth's interior
Which of the following best describes Earth's outer core? - correct answer metallic liquid
Which of the following lines of evidence was used by Alfred Wegener to support his theory of continental drift? - correct answer All answers
= Similar rock sequences on different continents.
Fit of the continents.
Similar plant & animal fossils on different continents.
Glacial deposits on continents in the southern hemisphere.
What is the name of the super continent that broke up as a result of plate tectonics to form the modern geography? - correct answer Pangaea
Earth's oceanic crust is considerably thicker than continental crust. - correct answer False
What rock type is associated with seafloor spreading? - correct answer Basalt
What best describes why the upper part of the mantle, called the asthenosphere, is important in plate tectonics? - correct answer It is hot and plastic like, which allows the overlying
plates to slide or move.
The rocks making up the seafloor get progressively __1__ away from the mid-ocean ridges. This provided some of the first direct evidence that the __2__ hypothesis was correct. - correct answer 1: older 2: seafloor spreading
Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are randomly distributed on the Earth. - correct answer False
Which of the following processes drives the movement of tectonic plates? - correct answer Convection cells in the mantle
Which two key geologic phenomena are associated with the process of subduction? - correct answer Earthquakes and volcanoes
What happens at a divergent plate tectonic boundary? - correct answer Seafloor spreading
What happens at a convergent plate tectonic boundary? - correct answer Subduction
What is the surface feature associated with a divergent tectonic plate boundary? - correct answer Mid-ocean ridge or rift valley
At what type of plate boundary would you expect to find new oceanic crust being created? - correct answer Divergent
What type of plate tectonic boundary is associated with a continental arc? - correct answer Convergent
At what type of plate boundary would you expect to find a volcanic island arc? - correct answer Oceanic-oceanic convergence
The Himalaya Mountains are an example of which of the following types of plate boundaries? - correct answer Continental-continental convergence
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