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WorksheetsGeology Test
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
How do geologists measure the altitude of a landscape?
Climbing
Height
Topography
Altitude
How do we determine the steepest point on a topographic map?
The farther away the contours are
The closer the contour lines are
If there are isotherms around.
Where the highest contour interval is
How old is the Earth?
4 million years
4.6 million years
4.6 billion years
8 billion years
The plate tectonic theory was devised by which scientist?
Alfred Wegener
Christopher Columbus
Harry Hess
Leonardo Dicaprio
Which type of tectonic plate moves away from each other?
Divergent
Convergent
Lithospheric
Transform
These two layers are the sub layers within the crust:
Lithosphere
Mesosphere
Asthenosphere
Moho
Typically in a geologic cross section, the oldest layer is at the bottom, which law of geology supports this?
Uniformitarianism
Superposition
Crosscutting
Intrusions
Horizontality
The two parts of a fault are:
Footwalls and Hanging Walls
Top and Bottom layer
Anticline & Syncline
Transform, divergent
Which of the three types of faults do we view from the sky?
Normal Fault
Reverse Fault
Strike/Slip Fault
Thrust Fault
The Focus in an Earthquake is the part:
Where the earthquake originated
The spot above the starting point
Where the most damaged happened
An epicenter
The fastest wave on an Earthquake is the...
Surface Wave
Love Wave
P wave
S wave
Earthquakes occur along:
Divergent plates
Faults
Plate boundaries
Under the surface
Seismologist determine the epicenter of an earthquake by...
Looking at the p waves
Time between p and s waves
Using three different recording stations
Radius of Earthquake
S waves or Secondary waves, can only travel through ___ not ____.
Liquids; solids
solids; liquids
solids and liquids; surface
Layers of the Earth are...
Inner core, outer core, mantle, moho, asthenosphere, lithosphere, continental crust, oceanic crust
Inner core, outer core, mantle, moho, asthenosphere, lithosphere, oceanic crust, continental crust
outercore, inner core, moho, mantle asthenosphere, lithosphere, oceanic crust, continental crust
inner core, outer core, moho, mantle, lithosphere, asthenosphere, oceanic crust, continental crust
Volcanoes are classified by...
Shape
Caldera
Viscosity
Location
Angle towards the sun
What makes a volcano more explosive?
Gas
water content
Silica Content
Pressure
The long tube that connects a volcano's magma chamber to the ground is known as...
Tube
Vent
pipe
crater
If geologists detect many small earthquakes in the area near a volcano, what can they infer about the volcano?
Dormant
About to erupt
Extinct
A good source of geothermal energy
This type of lava flows out like wax and is shiny and layered.
Aa lava
Pahoehoe Lava
Pillow Lava
Blocky Lava
This lava pours out quickly forming brittle, sharp pieces of rocks.
Aa lava
Pahoehoe
Pillow Lava
Blocky lava
The way light reflects off of a rock is known as...
Streak
Cleavage
Luster
Color
How a rock breaks is another way we identify rocks and minerals, some form in the shape of a cube. this is...
Streak
Cleavage
Luster
Color
The color of a mineral’s powder is called its
Streak
Cleavage
Luster
color
Magma that cools very slowly deep beneath the surface forms minerals with what type of crystals?
Small
large
Very hard
Cubic
The softest mineral on the Mohs hardness scale is
Talc
Apatite
Quartz
Gypsum
This discontinuity separates the asthenosphere from the Mantle
HoHo
Mohoverican
Lithosphere
Granite
What is the name for the Supercontinent to which all of the land mass on Earth was joined approximately 600 million years ago?
Gondwanland
Laurasia
Gia
Pangea
