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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is a self-contained convective zone in a fluid in which upward motion of warmer fluid in the center is balanced by downward motion of cooler fluid at the periphery?
Convection
Pressurization
Subduction
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle?
Atmosphere
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is an area on Earth over a mantle plume or an area under the rocky outer layer of Earth where magma is hotter than surrounding magma?
Hot spots
Island Arc
Volcano
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body?
Batholith
Dike
Sill
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is a chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate, positioned in an arc shape as seen from above?
Hot spots
Island Arc
Volcanic Arc
- 6. Multiple Choice
What are places where plates slide sideways past each other?
Convergent Boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
Transform Boundaries
- 7. Multiple Choice
What type of rock forms when mineral constituents in solution become supersaturated and inorganically precipitate?
Chemical Sedimentary Rock
Clastic Sedimentary Rock
Organic Sedimentary Rock
- 8. Multiple Choice
What type of rocks are gneiss, phyllite, schist, and slate have a layered or banded appearance that are produced by exposure to heat and directed pressure?
Foliated Metamorphic Rocks
Non Foliated Metamorphic Rocks
Organic Metamorphic rock
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is a phenomenon in which a saturated or partially saturated soil substantially loses strength and stiffness in response to an applied stress such as shaking during an earthquake or other sudden change in stress condition, in which material that is ordinarily a solid behaves like a liquid?
Ground rupture
Landslide
Liquefaction
- 10. Multiple Choice
What investigation prove the magnetic field of the earth?
Lava Flow
Meteorites
Seismic waves
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