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EES 17-20 Tanner Muovich Flashcards

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  1. How long ago was Pangea said to have broken apart?

A. 65 million years ago
B. 135 million years ago
C. 180 million years ago
D. 200 million years ago

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D. 200 million years ago

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  1. What was the hypothesis proposed by Alfred Wegener?

A. Continental Drift
B. Pangea
C. Gondwanaland
D. Climatic Evidence

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A. Continental Drift

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  1. Which of these were not a piece of evidence found by Wegener to support his hypothesis?

A. Evidence from fossils
B. Seafloor spreading
C. Evidence from rock formations
D.climatic evidence

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B. Seafloor spreading

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  1. What is a place where plates are moving apart from each other?

A. Convergent boundary
B. Transform boundary
C. Divergent boundary
D. Plate boundary

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C. Divergent boundary

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  1. Which of these is a place where two tectonic plates are moving toward each other?

A. Transform boundary
B. Convergent boundary
C. Plate boundary
D. Divergent boundary

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B. Convergent boundary

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  1. Where is a place where two plates slide horizontally past each other?

A. Transform boundary
B. Subduction
C. Convergent boundary
D. Divergent boundary

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A. Transform boundary

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  1. How many volcanoes have erupted in the last 10,000 years?

A. 100
B. 25,000
C. 50
D. 1,500

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D. 1,500

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  1. Which type of magma has a gas content of 1-2%?

A. Andesitic magma
B. Basaltic magma
C. Viscosity
D. Rhyolitic magma

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B. Basaltic magma

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  1. Which type of magma is the most explosive?

A. Basaltic magma
B. Andesitic magma
C. Rhyolitic magma
D. Molten magma

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C. Rhyolitic magma

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  1. Which of these are not a pluton?

A. Crater
B. Stock
C. Sill
D. Dike

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A. Crater

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  1. What are the largest plutons called?

A. Sill
B. Dike
C. Laccolith
D. Batholiths

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D. Batholiths

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  1. Which of these are not a major type of volcano?

A. Shield volcano
B. Cinder-cone volcano
C. Tephra
D. Composite volcano

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C. Tephra

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  1. Larger depressions, which can be up to 50 km in diameter, are called what?

A. Shield volcano
B. Caldera
C. Crater
D. Tephra

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B. Caldera

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  1. What is the death toll for some of the most dangerous earthquakes?

A. 100,000
B. 5,000
C. 25,000
D. 250,000

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A. 100,000

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  1. What type of fault is caused by a horizontal shear?

A. Fault
B. Reverse Fault
C. Normal Fault
D. Strike- Ship Fault

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D. Strike-ship fault

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  1. What are fractures that occur as a result of horizontal compression?

A. Normal fault
B. Strike-ship fault
C. Reverse fault
D. Regular Fault

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C. Reverse Fault

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17.What squeeze sand pulls rocks in the same direction along which the waves are traveling?

A. Secondary waves
B. Primary waves
C. Earthquake waves
D. Surface waves

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B. Primary waves

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  1. What causes rocks to move at right angles?

A. Secondary waves
B. Primary waves
C. Surface waves
D. Earthquake waves

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A. Secondary waves

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  1. What factors are represented in increases on the Richter scale?

A. 10
B. 2
C. 5
D. 20

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A. 10

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Q
  1. At least how many seismic stations are needed for the epicenter of an earthquake to be found accurately?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

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C. 3

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  1. Which is not a major earthquake hazard?

A. Structural failure
B. Land and soil failure
C. Fault Scarps
D. Tornadoes

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D. Tornadoes

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  1. What percent of Earth’s surface is below sea level?

A. 50%
B. 70%
C. 90%
D. 5%

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B. 70%

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  1. About how long ago did the Appalachian Mountains form?

A. 1 million years ago
B. 50 million years ago
C. 100 million years ago
D. 70 million years ago

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D. 700 million years ago

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  1. What is the probability that a major earthquake will strike near us in the next decade?

A. 75%
B. 90%
C. 100%
D. 50%

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B. 90%

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  1. What is the process that forms at all mountain ranges?

A. Mid-ocean ridge
B. uplifted mountain
C. Orogeny
D. Fault-block mountains

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C. Orogeny

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