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EXAM 1
Write your name out in full on the scantron form and fill in the corresponding
ovals to spell out your name. Also fill in your student ID number in the space
provided. Do not include the dash and do not leave any spaces. Make sure you
have all 8 pages of the exam. There are 55 questions. For each question, select
the correct answer and fill in your choice on the scantron form. You MUST use
pencil on the scantron form!
1. Which of the following is NOT one of the lines of evidence that was
initially used to develop the theory of plate tectonics?
A. the shapes of the continents seem to fit so well together
B. there are similar fossils of plants and animals on different
continents
C. paleomagnetic poles do not match up unless the continents used
to be together
D. the geology matches up from one continent to another
E. old ocean crust was forced up onto the continents as they moved
across the ocean basins
3. Which of the following continents does NOT show evidence of an ice age
during the Carboniferous because it was part of Laurasia in northern Pangea
and so was near to the equator?
A. North America
B. Africa
C. India
D. Australia
E. Antarctica
4. One line of evidence that Africa and South America used to be one continent
is that they both show fossil evidence of a type of plant with large seeds.
This plant was called:
A. Cynognathus
B. Glossopteris
C. Tyrannosaurus
D. Mesosaurus
E. Alto Redwood
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C. the paleomagnetic pattern on one side of a ridge is a mirror image of
that on the other side of the ridge
D. there is evidence that Earths magnetic poles reverse approximately
every half-million years
E. all the worlds spreading ridges show evidence of paleomagnetic
reversals in the adjacent ocean rocks
7. The fastest plate motion velocity that has been measured anywhere on Earth
is 18 cm/yr, which occurs at the:
A. San Andreas fault
B. mid-Atlantic ridge
C. East Pacific Rise
D. Juan de Fuca spreading ridge
E. Aleutian subduction zone
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E. 10C per kilometer
11. As a rock starts to melt, the minerals with the lowest melting temperature
will start to melt first, forming magma. This melted portion can get
squeezed away from the remaining solid rock through a process called:
A. partial melting
B. fractionation
C. differentiation
D. buoyancy
E. crystallization
12. The type of magma that has the highest silica content is:
A. intermediate
B. ultramafic
C. mafic
D. felsic
E. all magma has the same silica content
14. Which of the following terms has the same meaning as fine-grained texture
in igneous rocks?
A. aphanitic
B. phaneritic
C. porphyritic
D. pyroclastic
E. pegmatitic
15. When lava erupts and cools, if may form a groundmass of small crystals
occurring together with larger phenocrysts that grew in the magma while it
was still inside the Earth. The resultant type of igneous rock texture is
called:
A. aphanitic
B. phaneritic
C. porphyritic
D. pyroclastic
E. pegmatitic
16. The gas bubbles that get permanently trapped inside some igneous rocks,
like pumice, are called:
A. pillows
B. phenocrysts
C. pegmatites
D. vesicles
E. ostracods
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C. olivine, Ca-plagioclase, quartz, pyroxene
D. olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, biotite mica
E. quartz, muscovite mica, K-feldspar, Na-plagioclase
22. The type of volcanic hazard that involves a huge cloud of tephra rushing
down the slopes of a volcano is a:
A. lahar
B. lava bomb
C. pyroclastic flow
D. gas cloud
E. ash fall
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25. The most active volcano in the Cascades is (1) __________ but the largest
known eruption that occurred about 6800 years ago was the eruption of (2)
__________.
A. (1) Crater Lake (2) Mt. St. Helens
B. (1) Mt. St. Helens (2) Lassen Peak
C. (1) Mt. St. Helens (2) Mt. Mazama
D. (1) Mt. Mazama (2) Mt. Tehama
E. (1) Mt. Shasta (2) Mt. St. Helens
BONUS QUESTIONS
51. What type of plate boundary is the San Andreas fault in California?
A. divergent
B. convergent: ocean-ocean type
C. convergent: ocean-continent type
D. convergent: continent-continent type
E. transform
52. When considering lava that cools to form basalt, which of the following
terms does not belong with the others?
A. low viscosity
B. mafic
C. aa
D. pahoehoe
E. stratovolcanoes