FINAL 1 & 2

Question 1

_____ is a small area which may preserve one or a few unique resources ( e.g. Civil War battlefield)

Answer 1

National monument

Question 2

______ is an area, set aside bay an Act of Congress, having great scenic and scientific importance, with boundaries that provide for enough land and water to protect the resources

Answer 2

National Park

Question 3

The following features are associated with a divergent boundary except _______:

Answer 3

trench

Question 4

An _________ a far-traveled continent or island that collided with and is sutured to another continent/island:

Answer 4

allochthonous terrance

Question 5

The _______ is a diagram showing the order in which different minerals crystallize during cooling and crystallization of magma:

Answer 5

Bowen’s Reaction Series

Question 6

The process of generating more than one rock type from a single magma is referred to as _________:

Answer 6

Magmatic Differentiation

Question 7

_______ are life forms which existed during limited periods of geologic time and thus used as guides to the age of the rocks in which they are preserved

Answer 7

Index Fossils

Question 8

Dinosaurs fossils can be found in rocks of the ______

Answer 8

Mesozoic era

Question 9

A/An _____ marks the end of one period of sedimentation and beginning of another:

Answer 9

bedding plane

Question 10

________ afga is the age in years of a particular geologic event or feature, generally obtained with radiometric dating techniques:

Answer 10

Absolute

Question 11

_______ was the first person to propose that radioactive elements can be used to absolutely age-date rocks:

Answer 11

Ernest Ruterford

Question 12

Fossils in sedimentary rocks strata succeed each other vertically in a specific, reliable order:

Answer 12

Principle of Faunal Succession

Question 13

The Basin & Range Province of SW United States formed as a result of crustal _______:

Answer 13

tension when western edge of N. America became a transform margin.

Question 14

A tabular body of igneous rock which squeezed in between layering of sedimentary rocks is a ______

Answer 14

sill

Question 15

The Sierra Nevada Range is an example of a _________

Answer 15

batholith

Question 16

Highly explosive magmas are controlled by which of the following?

Answer 16

high silica content, high water content and low temperatures

Question 17

________ are mudflows on slopes of volcano created when laters of ash and debris becomes saturated with water and move downslope:

Answer 17

Lahars

Question 18

Since the late 1960’s most of the Hawaiian volcanic eruptions have occured

Answer 18

along the East Rift Zone

Question 19

The “Great Crack” in Hawaii is a result of _____:

Answer 19

crustal dilation

Question 20

Black sand beaches of Hawaii are formed ____

Answer 20

when hot lava flows enter the sea and shatters into glass fragments

Question 21

Most earthquakes in Yellowstone Park is located along the _______:

Answer 21

Hebtgen Lake Fault

Question 22

The array of vivid colors within Grand Prismatic Spring is produced

Answer 22

Thermophile bacteria