Matthew Wittig
Mjw5559@psu.edu
Geosc 10
Extra Credit
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Unit 2 - Plate Tectonics 1
1) Death Valley, located in Sierra Nevada, an example of a:
a) Full-Apart Fault
b) Push-together Fault
c) Sliding-Apart Fault
d) Sub-duction Fault
Answer: Located in section 2.1, subheading: Pull-Apart Faults
2) Within the Earth there is heating. During this heating, almost all material expands, because hotter
molecules vibrate more rapidly and bounce farther away from each other.
a) True
b) False
Answer: Located in section 2.1, subheading: Heat Inside the Earth
3) During the process of convection
a) Material that is heated rises, along with material that is cool
b) Material that is cool rises, and material that is heated sinks
c) Material that is heated rises, and material that is cool sinks
d) Material that is cool and material that is heated both sink
Answer: Located in section 2.1, subheading: Heat Inside the Earth
4) The order of the Earths layers from the center of the earth outwards is:
a) Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, outer core, inner core
b) Lithosphere, Outer core, Inner core
c) Outer core, inner core, lithosphere, asthenosphere
d) Inner core, Outer core, Asthenosphere, Lithosphere
Answer: Located in section 2.1, subheading: Heat Inside the Earth
5) Earthquakes with a magnitude of 3 shakes the ground how much more than an Earthquake with a
magnitude of 2?
a) 100 times
b) 1 time
c) 10 times
d) 1000 times
Answer: Located in section 2.2, subheading: Size of Earthquakes
Unit 3 – More Plate Tectonics
1) Almost all volcanoes include one of the following:
a) Pull-Apart margins, push-together subduction zones, hot spots
b) Hot spots, push-together subduction zones, slide-past zones
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c) Slide-past zones, hot spots, earthquakes
d) Earthquakes, pull-apart margins, push-together subduction zones
Answer: located in section 3.3, subheading: Types of Volcanoes
What is the most active of the Cascade Volcanoes over most recent centuries?
a) Midway volcano
b) Aleutain volcano islands
c) Mt. Saint Helens
d) Liohi Seamount
Answer: Located in Section 3.3, subheading: Mt. St. Helens and Volcanic Hazards, More to Worry
About
Subduction is when cold, dense seafloor sinks beneath the mantle
a) True
b) False
Answer: located in section 3.1, subheading: Ring Of Fire
Seafloor is composed of a kind of rock that is made from melting a little bit of the deep, convecting
rocks of the Earth’s mantle and then letting that rock float to the surface and “freeze.” What is this
rock called?
a) Ingenious
b) Basalt
c) Granite
d) Magma
Answer: located in section 3.1, subheading: Ring of Fire
How many large plates is the lithosphere broken into?
a) Eight
b) Seven
c) Six
d) Eleven
Answer: located in section 3.2, subheading: The Olympic Grocery
Unit 4 – Introducing Mountain Building, Obduction & Tsunamis
1) The Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Cades Cove, is an example of what?
a) Push-together faults
b) Pull-apart faults
c) Slide-past faults
d) Pull-together faults
Answer: located in section 4.1, subheading: Obduction Zones- The Push-Together Boundaries
2) Within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Cade’s Cove displays how older rocks sit on top of
younger rocks
a) True
b) False
Answer: located in section 4.1, subheading: Obduction Zones- The Push-Together Boundaries
3) In “slide-past” faults, faults occur when stresses run parallel to each other.
a) True
b) False
Answer: Located in section 4.1, subheading: The Three Structural types
4) About how fast can Tsunamis move across the deep ocean?
a) 100-200 miles per hour
b) 300-500 miles per hour
c) 10-12 miles per hour
d) 30-50 miles per hour
Answer: located in section 4.2, subheading: Where Tectonics Meet People: Tsunamis
5) In the developed world, only 1% of us die in “accidents.” Although the tragic Indian Ocean Tsunami
of 2004, which was triggered by the second largest earthquake ever recorded killed how many
people?
a) 1,000,000
b) 3,000,000
c) 100,000
d) 300,000
Answer: located in section 4.2, subheading: Where Tectonics Meet People: Tsunamis
Unit 5 – Tearing Down Mountains: Weathering, Mass Movement, & Landslides
1) Air is cooled by two major ways, those ways are:
a) By losing energy to its surroundings, or by being lifted
b) By large fans that blow on the earth from space, and ice cubes in the water
c) By gaining energy to its surroundings, and falling closer to the water
d) By being lifted, and by gaining energy to its surroundings
Answer: Located in section 5.1, subheading: Heating Death Valley
2) Warm air holds less moisture than cool air
a) True
b) False
Answer: Located in section 5.1, subheading: Heating Death Valley
3) Mechanical Weathering includes all of the following except:
a) Growth of things in cracks (tree roots, minerals)
b) Expansion and breakage of rocks as the weight of overlying rock is removed during erosion of
that overlying rock
c) Animals (such as worms) breaking down the rocks
d) Mountain-building stresses, or earthquake-release stresses, breaking the rocks
Answer: Located in Section 5.2, subheading: Mechanical Weathering
4) Granite is composed of four minerals, which one is not one of those minerals
a) Quartz
b) Potassium feldspar and sodium-calcium feldspar
c) Carbon
d) Dark silica bearing mineral containing iron and magnesium
Answer: Located in section 5.2, subheading: chemical Weathering
5) The total offset of the fault located at the Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming is about how long?
a) 6 miles
b) 10 miles
c) 1 mile
d) 500 feet
Answer: Located in section 5.3, subheading: Another Reason why loose rock matters: Mass
Movement and the Grand Tetons
Unit 6 – More on Tearing Down Mountains: Groundwater and Rivers
1) The Water table…
a) Rises as then rain fills it like a sponge
b) Sinks as the rain fills it like a sponge
c) Rises as the rain exits it and drains to the stream
d) Is located above the surface
Answer: Located in section 6.1, subheading: Rain, Rocks, and Rivers
2) In a meandering river, the stream will race around obstacles and erode the outside of the curve and
in doing-so the bend will grow.
a) True
b) False
Answer: Located in section 6.1, subheading: Rain, Rocks, and Rivers
3) Dams will stop the flow of water, but they will allow the flow of all sediment through them
a) True
b) False
Answer: Located in section 6.1, subheading: Rain, Rocks, and Rivers
4) What occurs in the original stream bed after a dam is constructed?
a) Erosion
b) Sediment Build-up
c) Floods
d) Nothing
Answer: Located in section 6.1, subheading: Rain, Rocks, and Rivers
5) Natural Levees build up mud, but not enough that the mud is higher than the Flood Plains.
a) True
b) False
Answer: Located in Section 6.2, subheading: Wrestling with Mud