Removal Exam Flashcards
The great iron catastrophe states that:
a. most of the iron for humans consumption was deposited in the BIFs
b. The majority of the world’s iron deposit went to the core
c. Iron in the form of sulfate and oxides
d. All of the Above
b. The majority of the world’s iron deposit went to the core
Based on the Bowen’s reaction series these two minerals shouldn’t coexist in the same rock:
a. quartz and feldspar
b. plagioclase and orthoclase
c. biotite and ca-rich plagioclase
d. quartz and olivine
d. quartz and olivine
In the selection below, which one is the most insignificant erosional agent?
a. water
b. wind
c. gravity
d. none of the above
b. wind
In the selection below, which process does not primarily form joints?
a. cooling
b. pressure relief
c. tectonic loading
d. vein filling
d. vein filling
This criteria indicates the uniformity of sediment size in the sedimentary rock:
a. sorting
b. sieving
c. sphericity
d. roundness
a. sorting
Based on the selection the most active volcanic belts in the?
a. mid-ocean ridge belt
b. circum-pacific ring
c. alpine-himalayan mountain belt
d. east african rift
b. circum-pacific ring
A cirque can be described as:
a. a bowl shaped depression at the upper reaches of the glacier
b. pointed mountain peak
c. glacial u shaped valley in where the sea meets the glacier
d. all of the above
a. a bowl shaped depression at the upper reaches of the glacier
These are knife-like ridges in between glaciers
a. arete
b. horn
c. cirque
d. fjord
a. arete
Which volcanoes have slopes rarely steeper than 10 degrees because they are composed mostly of low-viscosity lava flows?
a. shield volcanoes
b. lava tubes
c. cinder cones
d. basalt plateaus
a. shield volcanoes
An igneous rock that possesses a combination of minerals of markedly different sizes is:
a. natural gas
b. formed by explosive volcanism
c. a porphyry
d. produces by very rapid cooling
c. a porphyry
A tsunami is:
a. a part of a fault with a seismic gap
b. a precursor to an earthquake
c. a seismic sea wave
d. a particularly large and destructive earthquake
c. a seismic sea wave
P-wave is one in which:
a. movement is perpendicular to the direction of wave travel;
b. movement is only on earth’s surface;
c. movement is forward and back in the same directions the wave travels;
d. large sea waves are created by earthquake near shore
c. movement is forward and back in the same directions the wave travels;
Most earthquake take place in the:
a. spreading ridges zone
b. mediterranean-asian belt
c. rifts in continental interiors
d. circum-pacific belt
d. circum-pacific belt
An earthquake’s source of energy is located at the __________, but the location at the land surface above that point is called the _________.
a. Epicenter, focus
b. Hypocenter, fault
c. Focus, epicenter
d. Fault, hypocenter
c. Focus, epicenter
What step is essential to the development of an angular unconformity?
a. initial deposition of layers
b. uplift and tilting
c. erosion
d. deposition after erosion
b. uplift and tilting
Which is the order of increasing coarser grain size perfection of foliation?
a. gneiss> schist> phyllite> slate
b. phyllite> slate> schist> gneiss
c. schist> slate> gneiss> phyllite
d. slate> phyllite> schist> gneiss
d. slate> phyllite> schist> gneiss
The interactions among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere are major contribution to:
a. the generation of magma
b. mountain building
c. weathering of earth materials
d. continental and oceanic crusts
c. weathering of earth materials
Plates are composed of:
a. the crust and upper mantle
b. the asthenosphere and the solid portion of the upper mantle
c. the crust and asthenosphere
d. continental and oceanic crust
d. continental and oceanic crust
Plate movement is thought to be the result of:
a. density differences between the mantle and core
b. rotation of the mantle around the core
c. gravitational forces
d. convection cells
d. convection cells
Rocks resulting from the crystallization of magma are:
a. igneous
b. metamorphic
c. sedimentary
d. migmatites
a. igneous
Which of the following is an example of divergent plate boundary?
a. Andes mountain of the south america
b. The philippine fault
c. Mid-atlantic ridge
d. The hawaiian islands
c. Mid-atlantic ridge
The premise that the present geologic processes have operated throughout geologic time is the principle of:
a. continental drift
b. uniformitarianism
c. earth’s systems
d. plate tectonics
b. uniformitarianism
The person credited developing the continental drift hypothesis is:
a. Wilson
b. Wegener
c. Hess
d. du Toit
b. Wegener
The name of the supercontinent that formed from all landmasses on Earth is:
a. Laurasia
b. Pangaea
c. Gondwana
d. Atlantis
b. Pangaea
A pyramidal structure consisting of four oxygen atoms and one silicon atom is known as the:
a. oxygen-silicon ion
b. silica tetrhedron ion
c. carbonate pyramid
d. oxided building block
b. silica tetrhedron ion
An igneous rock having a composition of diorite and very large mineral crystals is:
a. basalt
b. pegmatite
c. obsidian
d. rhyolite
b. pegmatite
Which of the following pairs of igneous rocks have the same mineral composition?
a. granite-basalt
b. basalt-gabbro
c. peridotite-rhyollite
d. pumice-basalt
b. basalt-gabbro
The size of the mineral grains composing an igneous rock is a useful criteria for determining whether the rock is and/or:
a. discordant/concordant
b. vesicular/ fragmental
c. prophyritic/ felsic
d. plutonic/ volcanic
d. plutonic/ volcanic
Which of the following is a discordant pluton?
a. sill
b. laccolith
c. lava flow
d. dike
d. dike
Its a zone of many individual faults and fractures, their splay is called:
a. fault splays
b. fault system
c. fault zone
d. b and c only
b. fault splay
Which hypothesis states that as strain builds up, it overcomes friction to cause an earthquake?
a. isostacy
b. elastic rebound model
c. tectonic earthquake
d. elastic deformation
b. elastic rebound model
Emplaced bodies of ophiolites in an island-arc setting like in the Philippines occur in:
a. collision zones
b. supra-subduction zones
c. MOR
d. all of the above
b. supra-subduction zones
Which of the following might provide evidence that a fault zone exists in an area?
a. lines of lineaments on the surface of the earth as seen from above the zone
b. streams that are offset or end abruptly
c. third layers of rock that were originally horizontal
d. offset rock layers
e. all of these
e. all of these
Earthquakes that occur along the faults are created when:
a. melted rock is erupted along the fault zone
b. stress builds up until rocks break
c. the earth shifts and moves along the fractures
d. b and c
b. stress builds up until rocks break
What evidence proved that south america, africa, india, and australia were once covered by glaciers?
a. leftover portion of glaciers
b. cold climates
c. glacial deposits and rock surfaces scarred by glaciers
d. enormous valley formed by glaciers
c. glacial deposits and rock surfaces scarred by glaciers
What happens to rock around a subduction slab?
a. it combines with other rocks
b. it disappears from earth
c. it goes over the other plate
d. it goes under the other plate
d. it goes under the other plate
It refers to the presence of individual faults within an area of complex deformation.
a. fault system
b. fault zone
c. fault
d. fault types
b. fault zone
In the selection below, which one is iron the pyroxene?
a. enstatite
b. ferrosillite
c. augite
d. diopside
b. ferrosillite
In the selection below, which one an iron the olivine?
a. forsterite
b. fayalite
c. tephroite
d. monticellite
b. fayalite
Which silicate group is where olivine belong?
a. inosilicate
b. nesolicate
c. sorosilicate
d. phyllosilicate
b. nesolicate
Which silicate group is where most clay minerals and mica belong?
a. inosilicate
b. nesolicate
c. sorosilicate
d. phyllosilicate
d. phyllosilicate
Based on the metamorphic facies diagram, where would blueschist most likely will occur?
a. subduction zone
b. contact metamorphism
c. regional metamorphism
d. cataclastics
a. subduction zone
Based on the metamorphic facies diagram, where would hornfels most likely will occur?
a. subduction zone
b. contact metamorphism
c. regional metamorphism
d. all of the above
b. contact metamorphism
The source of heat for the formation of greenschist is most likely coming from:
a. subduction related
b. volcanism
c. geothermal gradient
d. all of the above
b. volcanism
In the selection below, which mineral would indicate the metamorphism of the highest grade?
a. garnet
b. kyanite
c. biotite
d. sillimanite
b. kyanite
Metamorphism of a calcareous sandstone would result into?
a. marble
b. quartzite
c. limestone
d. marl
a. marble
Metamorphism rock consisting chiefly of quartz:
a. quartz-schist
b. quartzite
c. gneiss
d. hornfels
b. quartzite
Metamorphic rock created by high voltage electricity:
a. impactite
b. tempestite
c. olistoliths
d. fulgurite
e. none of the above
d. fulgurite
This texture can be produced by plutons exhibiting equigranular grain size with less than 50% relatively larger sizes
a. porphyry
b. porphyritic
c. phaneritic
d. all of the above
b. porphyritic
A peridotite with composed of at least 90% olivine:
a. dunite
b. wehrlite
c. harzburgite
d. lherzolite
a. dunite
These are cartilaginous jawed fish, first appearing in the Silurian Period
a. Chondrichthyes
b. Osteichthyes
c. Sarcopterygii
d. Actinopterygii
a. Chondrichthyes
These are circular, geochemical markers for exploration
a. aureoles
b. geochemical halos
c. alterations
d. soil sampling
b. geochemical halos
Dendritic drainage pattern indicates that:
a. underlying lithology is uniform
b. structurally controlled stream
c. basin like shape
d. conical mountain
a. underlying lithology is uniform