Jake Brumbach
Extra Credit 3
Unit 1
1. Yellowstone is/was….
A. Has no geological features
B. Is not recognized by Congress
C. First National Park
D. At the Grand Canyon
Feedback: C; Yellowstone has geysers; was recognized by congress in 1872, and is located in mainly
Wyoming.
2. What must you do first to get your Scientific Literature in a journal?
A. Submit it and it is sent for editing
C. Do not bother, it is a waste of time
B. Just submit it
D. Gets there automatically
Feedback: A; First you must submit your literature to journal and then they send it out to be peer
reviewed. This is to make sure it is clear and accurate.
3. Peer reviewing is a quick process.
A. True
B. False
Feedback: B; Many experts must review the paper and check to make sure it is logical, equations are
correct and information is not omitted.
4. What is geology?
A. Study of Early Literature
B. Study of Birds
C. Study of Mars
D. Study of Earth
Feedback: D; Geology is simply defined as study of the Earth.
5. Atoms make up my computer
A. True
B. False
Feedback A; Atoms make up everything on the Earth.
Unit 2
1. Death Valley is _______ place in U.S.
A. Hottest, wettest
B. Mild temperature
C. Hottest, driest
D. Coldest, wettest
Feedback: C; Death Valley commonly reaches 125 degrees Fahrenheit and on average receives two
inches of rain per year.
2.
What kind of faults made Death Valley?
A. Pull-Apart
C. Slide Past
B. Push Together
D. None of the Above
Feedback: A; The fault Death Valley is on is moving away from each other, causing Death Valley to shrink
down into the Earth.
3. How is heat moved around the Earth?
A. Radiation
B. Conduction
C. Convection
D. All the above
Feedback: D; Radiation is when you can feel when you put your hand near the stove. Conduction is the
connection of how everything is transported to an object like a pot on a stove. Convection when you
move the food to the dinner table.
4. Earthquakes occur when rocks are moving past other rocks
A. True
B. False
Feedback: A; The breaks are usually angled and not vertical so the rocks collide as they pass by each
other.
5. Which magnitude is likely to cause more damage a magnitude 3 or 7?
A. Magnitude 3
C. Magnitude 7
B. Same likelihood
D. Neither will cause damage.
Feedback B; because a magnitude 7 will shake the Earth 10,000 times more than a magnitude 3.
Unit 3
1. Crater Lake was formed by?
A. A glacier
B. Volcanic Eruption
C. Rain
D. It has always been there
Feedback: C; It was created when Mt. Mazama erupted 6600 years ago. The eruption put 200-300 feet
thick on the sides of the volcano. Crater Lake then formed from this.
2. What is the lithosphere broken into?
A. Plates
B. Just air
C. The core of the Earth
D. Rain
Feedback: A; In the lithosphere 8 big plates floating around.
3. Mount Saint Helens has never erupted.
A. True
B. False
Feedback: B; Mount Saint Helens erupted in 1980. This eruption was very traumatic to the area.
4. Where do volcanoes occur?
A. Pull Apart Margins
B. Hot Spots
C. Push-Together Subduction Zones
D. All the Above
Feedback: D; At pull apart margins there are volcanos that erupt silica basalt. Hot spots make volcanoes
like a lava lamp and push-together subduction zones also make higher-silica volcanoes.
5. What is are tsunamis?
A. A Large tornado
B. A low wave that moves very quickly
C. The act of lava flowing out of the volcano
D. A rain cloud that rains meatballs
Feedback: B; Tsunamis is a low wave that moves very quickly and when it gets near shore it changes into
a short, steep wave. These huge waves can very traumatic to any area it hits.
Unit 4
1. The Great Smoky Mountains are the most visited national park.
A. True
B. False
Feedback: A; The Great Smoky Mountains had 9.7 million tourist in 2012. This is more than doubling the
closest competitor, the Grand Canyon who respectably had 4.4 million in the same year.
2. What feature do the Great Smoky Mountains have?
A. Volcanos
C. The older rocks sit on top of younger rocks.
B. Has geysers
D. Highest point in the United States.
Feedback: C; The older rocks sit on top of the mountains. This is because of the push-together
boundaries that they sit on. The rocks act much like if you would push a piece of paper together.
3. What kind of structural style are the Great Smoky Mountains on?
A. Pull-Apart
C. Push-together
B. Slide Past
D. Run into each other
Feedback: B; The Great Smoky Mountains are on a slide past structural style. They were built because of
obduction. This obduction most likely occurred from the ocean crust and continental crust colliding.
4. In the past big glaciers left ___________ in the Rocky Mountains and surrounding areas.
A. Lake
C. Moraines
B. Geysers
D. Both A and C are correct
Feedback: D; Large glaciers made the ground sink from their great weight and then when they melted all
of the water piled up and made a lake. And the moraines are sediment and such left behind from a
glacier, which is how we know glaciers were there in the past.
6. One reason tsunamis are very devastating to people are…
A. Water often goes out as more is coming in C. Tsunamis are only for surfers
B. The lava moves very quickly
D. All of the above
Feedback: A; As the front of the water comes in and makes contact with the land, it will start to go back
out to sea, while more water is coming back in. This makes the depth of the water even greater. Also
the water is usually moving too quickly for someone to run.
Unit 5
1. Why does the equator get more sun than the poles?
A. The poles get more sun
C. Because of simple geometry
B. The sun likes the equator more
D. Every place gets the same amount of sun
Feedback: C; The equator gets more sun because the sun signs straight at the Earth. Since the Earth is a
sphere it has a smaller area at the poles for the sun to go through.
2. Which of the following are some examples of erosion agents?
A. Mass Wasting
C. Glaciers
B. Running water
D. All the above
Feedback: D; All of these agents help make erosion happen. Some others are wind, ocean waves, and
ground water.
3. What are landslides driven by?
A. Gravity
B. Cold
C. Heat
D. Tectonic Plates
Feedback: A; Landslides can happen very fast or very slow. For example if you put a bunch of individual
rocks on top of each they will fall pretty quickly in the beginning but as the pile gets lower it will take
longer.
4. For big rocks to turn into smaller ones they need to be turned into smaller rocks and this is
known as chemical weathering
A. True
B. False
Feedback: B; This is known as mechanical weathering and this happens through, growing things in
cracks expanding and shrinking of during changes of heat, and a few other ways.
5. Why do rocks break when water freezes in inside of a crack?
A. When water freezes it expands.
C. The water dissolves it
B. It is too cold for the rock
D. All the above
Feedback: A; It is common knowledge that when you freeze water it becomes stronger and expands.
When this happen inside a rock it pushes the rock apart and it will break.