Chapter 14 Geology and Nonrenewable Mineral Resources

What type of rock is granite?

• igneous

• mineral

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

• organic

What type of rock is formed from the weathered remains of other rocks?

• igneous

• mineral

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

• organic

The interaction of physical and chemical processes that change rocks from one type to another type is known as ____.

• metamorphism

• the rock cycle

• petrography

• consolidation

• hydrogeology

Limestone, when exposed to heat and pressure, becomes ____.

• salt

• quartzite

• granite

• marble

• bituminous coal

The slowest of the earth’s cyclic processes is the ____.

• hydrological cycle

• carbon cycle

• rock cycle

• phosphorus cycle

• nutrient cycle

Which of the following is a type of metallic mineral?

• iron

• sand

• limestone

• coral

• coal

What moves large volumes of rock and heat within the mantle, much like gigantic conveyor belts?

• convection cells

• concurrent cells

• magma chambers

• convergent plates

• divergent plates

What element below makes up 71% of the earth’s crust?

• oceanic crust

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• continental crust

• geosphere

Large sections of the earth's crust, called ____, slowly separate, collide, or grind along against each other at the earth’s surface.

• tailings

• mantle

• tectonic plates

• low-grade core

• oceanic ridges

When an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate, the continental plate usually slides up and over the denser oceanic plate, pushing it down into the mantle, a process called ____.

• production

• subduction

• induction

• convection

• trenching