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Geology is the study of the composition of the Earth’s surface and under it and the events that have shaped it. It also includes methods for determining the absolute and relative ages of rocks discovered in a certain place and describing the rock’s history. Geologists may document the geologic Earth’s history and show the age of rocks by combining these technologies. Plates’ continental drift, the long evolution of species, and the Earth’s previous temperatures are all supported by geology.

#1. Spheroidal weathering occurs when

Physical weathering breaks boulders directly into spherical cobbles and pebbles

Physical weathering predominates and there is little chemical weathering

Chemical weathering works at a uniform rate throughout the rock

Chemical weathering attacks corners and edges of rock more rapidly than its interior

#2. Ash, cinders, and blocks are all types of

Volcanoclastic debris

Volcanoes

Pele's hair

Lava flows

#3. Volcanic Bombs are

Cinders that explode upon impact with the ground

Pyroclastic blocks that acquire aerodynamic shapes during flight out of the volcanic vent

Used in highly hazardous volcanoes to mitigate volcanic hazards via small controlled eruptions

Explosive bodies of lava with high volatile content

#4. Laterite soils are most commonly found in which type of environments?

Grasslands

Temperate forests

Deserts

Tropical rain forests

#5. You have discovered an outcrop of mica schist, and you know that this is a metamorphic rock. Which of the following rocks could have been metamorphosed to form this mica schist?

Limestone

Basalt

Shale

Ignimbrite

#6. If a shale is metamorphosed, the following rock types develop in this order in response to increasing temperature:

Gneiss : schist : phyllite : slate cooler → hotter

Slate : phyllite : schist : gneiss cooler → hotter

Lapilli : lahar :tuff : ignimbrite cooler → hotter

Blueschist : greenschist : amphibolite cooler → hotter

#7. The word "metamorphism" literally refers to

Change

Change in the chemical composition of a rock.

Moving toward the middle

A concept in existential philosophy

#8. Hydrolysis, oxidation, and hydration are all examples of

Deposition

Erosion

Physical weathering

Chemical weathering

#9. When rocks are metamorphosed,

The original minerals are recrystallized in the solid state, and they are sometimes replaced by a new set of minerals

They always turn green, which is why they are called greenschists.

They always melt and then recrystallize upon cooling.

They always develop a strong foliation

#10. If a basalt is metamorphosed, the following rock types could develop in this order in response to increasing temperature:

Amphibolite : greenschist : blueschist

Marble : greenschist : quartzite

Greenschist : amphibolite

Granite : gabbro : phyllite

#11. One of the main differences between a gneiss and a schist is that

Gneisses form in subduction zones and schists form in batholiths.

Gneisses form from sedimentary rocks and schists form from igneous rocks.

Gneisses are generally older than schists

Gneisses have more feldspar and less mica than schists

#12. Caliche is most commonly found in which type of environments?

Grasslands

Tropical rain forests

Deserts

Temperate forests

#13. It is unusual for ____________ to carry grains larger than sand.

Water

Wind

ice

#14. Contact metamorphism would occur when

Magma is emplaced adjacent to relatively cool sedimentary rocks.

Sediments on a subducting slab are heated and deformed.

Basalt is erupted under seawater

Magma is emplaced into very deeply buried and already-hot igneous rocks

#15. Frost wedging, root wedging, and salt wedging are all examples of

Erosion

Physical weathering

Chemical weathering

Deposition

#16. Used in highly hazardous volcanoes to mitigate volcanic hazards via small controlled eruptions

A submarine hot-spot located within the interior of a plate

A submarine hot-spot located along a mid-ocean ridge

Subduction of an oceanic plate underneath the continental Eurasian Plate

Normal mid-ocean ridge activity

#17. Because the velocity of sediment settling (deposition) is positively related to grain size for waterborne sediments, fluvial deposits are more likely than glacial deposits to

Have angular grains

Include fine grains, such as clay

Include coarse grains, such as cobbles

Be well sorted

#18. If water is the transport medium of sediment, the grain size of sedimentary deposits most closely indicates the

Geographic extent of the weathering source rock at outcrop

average velocity of the water from the time of erosion until deposition

Velocity of the water at the moment the sediment settled to the bottom

#19. The best plate-tectonic environment for making blueschists (high pressure, lower temperature) metamorphic rocks is

Mid-ocean ridges

Hot spots.

Himalayan-type orogens.

Subduction zones

#20. The breakdown of exposed rock into small fragments and dissolved ions is termed

Erosion

Deposition

Weathering

Sedimentation

#21. Seafloor metamorphism

Generates metamorphic rocks that usually lack foliation.

Occurs when seawater reacts with hot seafloor rocks.

occurs mainly at or near mid-ocean ridges and transform faults

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#22. The difference between breccia and conglomerate is that conglomerate

Is coarser grained than breccia

Possesses more rounded grains than breccia

Possesses more angular grains than breccia

Is finer grained than breccia

#23. A rock with a well-developed foliation

Has platty mineral grains (like micas) aligned parallel to each other, causing the rock to break into flat slabs

Most commonly forms in contact metamorphic environments.

Is made up primarily of quartz

Is most likely to form in response to falling temperature and pressure.

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