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Irregularities in the earth's rotation necessitates an occasional adjustment called a ______ to UTC to accommodate the difference between precise atomic clock time and imprecise solar time

• leap second

• time off

• time wrap

• daylight saving time

Ambient seismic noise could be caused by ______

• multiple arrivals

• wind, traffic or animals

• bad processing

• mode conversion

_________ is the name of a deep-red soil, formed in very humid regions, with high alumina and iron oxide content.

• loess

• laterite

• goethite

• limonite

1 megaPascal (MPa) equals _______ pounds per square inch (psi)

• 145

• 2321

• 101

• 10

In 2022, a NASA mission successfully altered the orbit of an asteroid by hitting it with a spacecraft, The mission was named _____

• DART

• BART

• SLINGSHOT

• LAST CHANCE

When continental glacier were present during the Ice Age sea level was ______

• higher

• missing

• lower

• the same

For what discovery did Albert Einstein receive the Noble Prize in physics?

• general relativity

• special relativity

• E = MC**2

• photo electric effect

Folds and reverse faults in a mountain range suggests _______

• deep water deposition

• crustal shortening

• tensional stresses

• a triple junction

A Bouguer anomaly is typically measured in units of _______

• milliGal

• milliTesla

• milliOhm

• millimeter

Which of these environments will most likely produce sediments with cross-bedding ?

• a tropical rain forest

• the deep ocean

• a desert

• a swamp