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APSC 151 Final Exam | Questions & Answers (100 %Score) Latest Updated 2024/2025
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The process of unloading can produce: - joints



An unconformity, like the one in the Kingston area, is best defined as: - a time gap in the rock record



Weathering produces minerals that are more stable at the Earth's surface, which one is the most
abundant product of the weathering process: - clay



Minerals with sheet structure: - muscovite, clay



Rocks that are likely to be well sorted: - limestone



Main factor that controls the rate of weathering in rocks: - climate



Rocks that are most likely to contain feldspar grains: - arkose and granite



Abundant evidence of fossils of life-forms that made hard protective shells did not appear in the
geologic record

until how long ago? - 600 MYA



Where are fissure eruptions most prominent? - mid ocean ridges



The Hawaiian Islands are located where the Pacific plate is: - migrating over a hot spot



Which of the following rock types has provided evidence for a change over Earth history in the levels of

oxygen in the atmosphere? - banded iron formation



Rock most likely to be immature: - breccia

, Absolute ages have been attached to the relative time scale by the determination of: - radiometric ages
of igneous rocks younger and older than sedimentary formations



. The Atlantic Ocean is opening up at a rate closest to; - 5cm/year



Unlike many other bodies in the Solar System, the Earth has a strong magnetic field. Which feature of
the Earth is responsible for the Earth having such a magnetic field: - a liquid outer core of iron



The fact that, over time in the sedimentary rock record, fossil organisms succeed one another in a
definite

and determinable order is the basis for: - the principle of biotic succession



As you go from gabbro to granodiorite to granite, what increases ? - silicon content



Most rapid form of mass wasting - rockfall or rockslide



Most abundant chemical sedimentary rock - limestone



What is the main difference between a rhyolite and a granite? - grain size (rhyolite has finer grain size)



The aphanitic equivalent of granite is - rhyolite



Drumlin fields contain - smooth, tapering, asymmetric ridges of till formed and shaped beneath a
continental ice sheet



What are the three types of differential stress in the Earth's lithosphere? - compression, shear, tension



Describe how narrow valleys form - Stream water dissolves the bedrock along a narrow swath of soluble
bedrock

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