Earth Science

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

What is the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle?

• Atmosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

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

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What is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body?

• Batholith

• Dike

• Sill

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

What are places where plates slide sideways past each other?

• Convergent Boundaries

• Divergent Boundaries

• Transform Boundaries

What type of rock forms when mineral constituents in solution become supersaturated and inorganically precipitate?

• Chemical Sedimentary Rock

• Clastic Sedimentary Rock

• Organic Sedimentary Rock

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

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

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What investigation prove the magnetic field of the earth?

• Lava Flow

• Meteorites

• Seismic waves