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SOES1008 TEST
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SOES1008 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS1. What is closest to the estimated age of the Solar System?
a. 15 billion years
b. 10.6 billion years
c. 4.6 billion years
d. 3.6 billion years
e. 2.6 billion years
2. What is currently accepted hypothesis for solar system formation?
a. GAIA hypothesis
b. Nebula hypothesis
c. Bing Bang
d. Ediacaran hypothesis
e. Hydrothermal hypothesis
3. What does “regolith” stand for?
a. a type of granite that solidified deep inside continental crust
b. the earth's layer of rock and mineral fragments produced by weathering
c. a collective name for the sulphidic deposits from a hydrothermal vent
d. the zone where the deepest earthquakes originate from
e. the product of aggradation of planetesimals in a planetary nebula
4. The key stage in the development of oxygenic photosynthesis was
a. the evolution of eukaryotes
b. the development of the chloroplast
c. the functional linking of two photosystems in one organism
d. the development of carbon concentration mechanisms
e. primary endosymbiosis
5. Which element serves both as a key ion in cellular fluids and as a cofactor in biological molecules
a. Molybdenum
b. Sodium
c. Calcium
d. Magnesium
e. Manganese
6. The minimum sea-water temperature is about:
a. + 4 °C
b. + 2 °C
c. 0 °C
d. -2 °C
e. -4 °C
7. A current characterised by a balance between the Coriolis ‘force’ and the force exerted by the
horizontal pressure gradient is called
a. baroclinic
b. an Ekman current
c. a SOFAR flow
d. Geostrophic
e. a Conveyor Belt
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