EOSC FINAL PT 2 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
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At which time was sea level highest
a. Mid Jurassic
b. Late Jurassic
c. Early Cretaceous
d. Mid Cretaceous
e. Mid Triassic - Answer- d.
Which of the following would cause eustatic sea level RISE?
a. Erosion of mountain...
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EOSC FINAL PT 2 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY
PASSED
At which time was sea level highest
a. Mid Jurassic
b. Late Jurassic
c. Early Cretaceous
d. Mid Cretaceous
e. Mid Triassic - Answer- d.
Which of the following would cause eustatic sea level RISE?
a. Erosion of mountain chains.
b. Formation of a large ice cap at the south pole.
c. Formation of a large supercontinent
d. Accelerated ocean floor spreading.
e. Very narrow ocean spreading ridges. - Answer- d.
Which of the following environments has the SHORTEST water residence time?
a. Lakes
b. Ice Sheet
c. Rivers
d. Glaciers
e. Oceans - Answer- c.
Which concerning homeostasis is MOST true?
a. Homeostasis is the property of a system, either open or closed, that regulates its
internal environment to maintain a stable, constant condition
b. Homeostasis is the feature of Earth that regulates the atmosphere to maintain a
stable, constant conditions
c. Homeostasis is a biological property that is only applicable to organisms undergoing
heavy exercise
d. Homeostasis describes how humans regulate body temperature
e. Homeostasis is a mechanism employed - Answer- a.
,At subduction zones, water......
a. cannot descend with the oceanic slab and returns to the surface after a few
kilometers.
b. exists in the liquid state trapped in large aquifers within the descending oceanic slab.
c. is released by processes of metamorphism.
d. is transported to the mantle within pore spaces in the descending slab as
superheated steam.
e. cools the mantle and helps reduce volcanic activity on the overlying plate. - Answer-
c.
Which of the following concerning the rock cycle is FALSE?
a. Igneous rocks could be weathered to form sediments
b. Sedimentary rocks can be eroded to form sediments and ultimately new sedimentary
rocks
c. Metamorphic rocks may be transformed into new metamorphic rocks
d. Every rock will pass though each part of the cycle
e. Magma introduces new material into the system - Answer- d.
What role do Sabkha have in geophysiology?
a. They regulate ocean temperatures
b. They bury carbon for hundreds of millions of years
c. They trap salts by evaporative pumping
d. They regulate carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere
e. They bury carbon for hundreds to thousands of years - Answer- c.
As Pangea started to rift to form the Atlantic ocean in the Triassic, a good analogy for
what this might have looked like can be found today at which of the following locations?
a. The Pacific Ocean
b. The Mediterranean
c. The Black Sea
d. The East African Rift System
e. The Alps - Answer- d.
Around 4 - 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was probably kept warm by....
a. oxygen
b. nitrogen
c. carbon dioxide
d. methane
e. ozone - Answer- d.
, The Pycnocline is a zone of rapid change in density in the oceans that it is a product
of....
a. fall in temperature
b. fall in salinity and rise in temperature
c. fall in salinity and fall in temperature
d. fall in salinity
e. fall in temperature and rise in salinity - Answer- e.
The findings of scientific research ________.
a. can be ignored if they don't support well founded theories
b. will always be true
c. should never be open to debate
d. should be open to scrutiny of the scientific community
e. a, b & c - Answer- d.
Who of the following historical figures believed the Earth to be around 6000 years old?
a. Buffon
b. Ussher
c. Steno
d. Smith
e. Darwin - Answer- b.
Which of the following would be the WORST description of the Geosynclinal
Hypothesis?
a. a model to explain why volcanoes occur where they do
b. a model to explain all of the features on the surface of the Earth
c. a static model to explain the origin of mountain ranges
d. a model that explains why surface features on Earth only move in a vertical sense
e. a basis for one of the first modern geological grand unifying theories - Answer- a.
The majority of Earth's seismic activity, volcanism and mountain building occurs along
________.
a. lines of magnetic flux
b. around the equator
c. at plate boundaries
d. along random trends - Answer- c.
Which of the following is TRUE regarding radiometric (absolute) dating?
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