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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

Chemical weathering works at a uniform rate throughout the rock

Physical weathering breaks boulders directly into spherical cobbles and pebbles

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

Physical weathering predominates and there is little chemical weathering

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

Greenschist : amphibolite

Amphibolite : greenschist : blueschist

Marble : greenschist : quartzite

Granite : gabbro : phyllite

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

ice

Wind

Water

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

Temperate forests

Tropical rain forests

Deserts

Grasslands

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

Deposition

Erosion

Chemical weathering

Physical weathering

#6. A rock with a well-developed foliation

Most commonly forms in contact metamorphic environments.

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

Is made up primarily of quartz

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

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

Deposition

Weathering

Erosion

Sedimentation

#8. 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

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

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

#9. When rocks are metamorphosed,

They always develop a strong foliation

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.

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

Chemical weathering

Physical weathering

Deposition

Erosion

#11. Volcanic Bombs are

Explosive bodies of lava with high volatile content

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

Cinders that explode upon impact with the ground

#12. Contact metamorphism would occur when

Basalt is erupted under seawater

Magma is emplaced adjacent to relatively cool sedimentary rocks.

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

Sediments on a subducting slab are heated and deformed.

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

Volcanoes

Volcanoclastic debris

Lava flows

Pele's hair

#14. The word "metamorphism" literally refers to

Change

Moving toward the middle

A concept in existential philosophy

Change in the chemical composition of a rock.

#15. 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

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

Temperate forests

Deserts

Tropical rain forests

Grasslands

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

Himalayan-type orogens.

Hot spots.

Subduction zones

Mid-ocean ridges

#18. 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 coarse grains, such as cobbles

Include fine grains, such as clay

Be well sorted

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

Is finer grained than breccia

Is coarser grained than breccia

Possesses more rounded grains than breccia

Possesses more angular grains than breccia

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

Blueschist : greenschist : amphibolite cooler → hotter

Lapilli : lahar :tuff : ignimbrite cooler → hotter

Slate : phyllite : schist : gneiss cooler → hotter

Gneiss : schist : phyllite : slate cooler → hotter

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

Gneisses form in subduction zones and schists form in batholiths.

Gneisses are generally older than schists

Gneisses have more feldspar and less mica than schists

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

#22. Seafloor metamorphism

Generates metamorphic rocks that usually lack foliation.

Occurs when seawater reacts with hot seafloor rocks.

All options

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

#23. 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?

Basalt

Ignimbrite

Limestone

Shale

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