Geology Chapter 1

Multiple Select

Which of the following would be an historical geology question? Choose all that apply.

• When did dinosaurs roam the Earth?

• How did paleoclimate affect sedimentation of limestone?

• Did Lake Missoula and Lake Glendive fail at the same time?

• How far below the Earth is the Bakken formation?

Open Ended

List a couple of occupations that would be mostly occupied by Physical Geologists

Open Ended

Can you think of an example of how geology is used to save human lives?

Multiple Choice

Modern geologists have determined that the rocks in the Grand Canyon exhibit

• 500 million years of Earth history.

• 1 million years of Earth history.

• 4.6 billion years of Earth history.

• 1.5 billion years of Earth history.

Multiple Choice

Scientific Inquiry always starts with this...

• a hypothesis.

• an experiment.

• a question.

• a theory.

Multiple Choice

The majority of all the freshwater on Earth is found

• in glaciers.

• the ground.

• in lakes and rivers.

• in the atmosphere.

Open Ended

The ocean's equivalent of a rainforest is a ____________.

Multiple Choice

Which process led to the creation of subterranean layers on Earth

• centripetal acceleration

• chemical differentiation

• the sorting hat

• subterranean sorting

Drag and Drop

Crustal rock is mainly ​

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​ in its composition. The Mantel is mostly ​

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and the core is composed of ​

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basalt and granodiorite

peridotite

nickel and iron.

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The upper part of the mantel is also called the ​

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, while a fancy name for the crust is the ​

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asthenosphere

lithosphere

Multiple Choice

According to the Rock Cycle

• the final state of rock evolution is sedimentary rock.

• only igneous rocks can become metamorphic rocks.

• sedimentary rocks can't become igneous rocks.

• any rock type can't reform into any other type of rock form.

Multiple Choice

Oceanic crust is more dense than continental crust

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Where live would be found

• on a sheild

• on the stable platform

• on a craton

• on a cracker