Environmental Geology Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Environmental Geology explores the interactions between humans and the geologic environment, emphasizing the impact of geologic processes on society and the influence of human activities on Earth's systems. Topics include natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods, and landslides; the management of natural resources like water, soil, and minerals; environmental contamination; land use planning; and the role of geology in environmental policy and sustainable development. The course combines scientific principles with real-world case studies to equip students with the knowledge to analyze and address environmental challenges from a geologic perspective.
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Earth Portrait of a Planet 5th Edition by Stephen Marshak
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Chapter 1: Cosmology and the Birth of Earth
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Q1) Over 2,000 years ago,an ancient Greek astronomer concluded (correctly)that the
A)Earth is spherical
B)Sun is the center of the whole Universe
C)Earth orbits the Sun in a circular orbit
D)Earth is the center of the Universe
Answer: A
Q2) The primary evidence that our Sun is a third-,fourth-,or fifth-generation star comes from the fact that our ________.
A)Solar System contains too many heavy atoms to be first generation
B)Solar System is too large to be first generation
C)Sun is too hot to be a first-generation star
D)Sun is too large to be a first-generation star
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following bodies is the smallest?
A)planet
B)star
C)protoplanet
D)planetesimal
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Q1) Most of the ocean floor is made up of ________.
A)deep-ocean trenches (8 to 11 km below sea level)
B)abyssal plains (4 to 5 km below sea level)
C)mid-ocean ridges (less than 2.5 km below sea level)
D)Elevations of the sea floor are nearly uniformly distributed from sea level to 11 km depth.
Answer: B
Q2) The most common minerals within Earth are ________.
A)silicates
B)carbonates
C)oxides
D)hydroxides
Answer: A
Q3) The thickness of Earth's crust varies from ________.
A)100 to 500 m
B)1 to 10 km
C)5 to 500 km
D)7 to 70 km
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Drifting Continents and Spreading Seas
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Q1) Evidence that the South American and African continents were once joined includes evidence from their coastlines such as ________.
A)shared anthropological evidence
B)identical mineral properties
C)symmetrical earthquake patterns
D)matching fossil distributions
Answer: D
Q2) Regions of the sea floor with positive magnetic anomalies were formed during times when Earth's magnetic field ________.
A)was exceptionally strong
B)was exceptionally weak
C)had normal polarity
D)had reversed polarity
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Way the Earth Works: Plate Tectonics
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Q1) When two plates composed of continental lithosphere are pulled together at a convergent boundary,the result is ________.
A)subduction
B)transform faulting
C)collision and mountain formation
D)a hot spot is formed
Q2) Segments of mid-ocean ridge systems are offset.Between the offset segments we observe ________.
A)a second series of ridges,perpendicular to the main set
B)deep-ocean trenches
C)transform faults
D)hot spots
Q3) Mid-ocean ridges are segmented and contain which two basic types of plate boundaries linked together?
A)divergent and convergent
B)convergent and transform
C)divergent and transform
D)conformal and transvergent
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Chapter 5: Patterns in Nature: Minerals
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Q1) Which common gemstone results from biomineralization?
A)diamond
B)garnet
C)pearl
D)sapphire
Q2) When a solution becomes oversaturated,new solid particles are said to ________.
A)precipitate from the solution
B)dissolve into the solution
C)react with the solution and produce heat
D)rapidly expand,causing an explosion
Q3) The way a mineral scatters light is a useful diagnostic property termed ________.
A)color
B)reflectivity
C)luster
D)streak
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Chapter 6: Up From the Inferno: Magma and Igneous Rocks
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Q1) Injecting hot fudge into ice cream and causing the ice cream to melt is an appropriate analogy for which cause of magma melt?
A)melting due to a decrease in pressure
B)melting due to an addition of volatiles
C)melting due to heat transfer from rising magma
D)flux melting
Q2) If a body of magma is subjected to fractional crystallization,the first rock that is expected to crystallize from the magma will be ________.
A)identical in chemical composition to the magma
B)more mafic than the magma
C)more felsic than the magma
D)The composition of the rock is not predictable.
Q3) Magma tends to ________.
A)move upward,away from where it formed
B)move downward,away from where it formed
C)move laterally
D)stay in one place
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Chapter 7: Pages of Earths Past: Sedimentary Rocks
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Q1) Diagenesis refers to ________.
A)the development of layering within sedimentary rocks
B)the act of deposition of sediment that will ultimately form sedimentary rock
C)physical and chemical alterations,including compaction and cementation,that occur as sediment is transformed into rock
D)the natural process of separating sediment by grain size
Q2) Sea level rises locally,and marine sediments are deposited on top of terrestrial sediments during events termed ________.
A)transgressions
B)regressions
C)turbidity currents
D)cross bedding
Q3) Which environment would most likely produce sedimentary deposits characterized by very well-sorted,very well-rounded grains that are nearly pure quartz?
A)river
B)glacier
C)beach
D)alluvial fan
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Chapter 8: Metamorphism: a Process of Change
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Q1) Preexisting rock that is subsequently altered to form a metamorphic rock is termed a
A)xenolith
B)source rock
C)protolith
D)phenocryst
Q2) Which of the following statements is NOT true? Hornfels facies ________.
A)are typically nonfoliated.
B)form at high pressures but low temperatures
C)often form as a result of contact metamorphism
D)are often associated with igneous intrusions
Q3) ________ commonly serves as a protolith in the formation of marble.
A)Limestone
B)Sandstone
C)Shale
D)Gneiss
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Chapter 9: The Wrath of Vulcan: Volcanic Eruptions
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Q1) The largest known volcanic eruption in the last million years occurred at ________.
A)Toba Volcano (Indonesia)
B)Mt.St.Helens (USA)
C)Mt.Pinatubo (Philippines)
D)Yellowstone Caldera (USA)
Q2) Mt.Fuji in Japan is an example of a ________.
A)stratovolcano
B)cinder cone
C)shield volcano
D)fissure volcano
Q3) Which of the following is NOT true? Hot-spot volcanoes ________.
A)can arise from the ocean floor
B)can arise on continents
C)can arise in the interior of lithospheric plates
D)always produce mafic lava flows
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Chapter 10: A Violent Pulse: Earthquakes
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Q1) Geologists who specifically study earthquakes are called ________.
A)seismologists
B)paleontologists
C)vulcanologists
D)speleologists
Q2) Periods of intermittent sliding on a fault because of stress release during episodes of slip,followed by stress buildup to the point that the fault is reactivated,is termed ________.
A)chaotic faulting
B)thrust faulting
C)stick-slip behavior
D)reverse faulting
Q3) Faulting and earthquakes are examples of ________ and generally occur when rocks are relatively ________.
A)brittle deformation;cold
B)ductile deformation;cold
C)brittle deformation;hot
D)ductile deformation;hot
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Chapter 11: Crags,cracks,and Crumples: Crustal
Deformation and Mountain Building
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Q1) The distinction between joints and faults is that ________.
A)faults are joints that are greater than one square meter in areal extent
B)faults are fractures along which displacement has occurred;displacement does not occur along joints
C)joints are fractures along which displacement has occurred;displacement does not occur along faults
D)there is no distinction;the two terms are synonymous
Q2) Shear stress at sufficient depth within a fault plane can induce plastic shear,forming a fine-grained metamorphic rock named ________.
A)ignimbrite
B)gneiss
C)mylonite
D)migmatite
Q3) There are many ways in which uplift can occur,but all of them reflect ________.
A)compressional forces
B)the effects of weathering and erosion
C)subduction zone processes
D)the lithosphere's tendency to achieve isostasy
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Chapter 12: Deep Time: How Old Is Old
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Q1) In the 1800s Lord Kelvin estimated the age of the Earth,utilizing a number of assumptions.Which wrong assumption was the primary reason why his estimate (approximately 20 million years)was so wildly inaccurate?
A)that the Earth was once hotter than it presently is today
B)that the Earth may have been molten when first formed
C)that no new heat has been added to the Earth since its initial formation
D)that the Earth would lose heat over time through radiation into outer space
Q2) Which eon of geologic time is represented by rocks containing abundant shelly fossils?
A)Hadean
B)Archean
C)Phanerozoic
D)Proterozoic
Q3) Why is radiocarbon dating only rarely applied in geological work?
A)No substances on Earth contain significant amounts of carbon-14.
B)The half-life of carbon-14 is so long that it is effectively a stable isotope.
C)The half-life of carbon-14 is so short that it can only be used to date materials that are less than 70,000 years old.
D)Carbon-14 is destroyed by the heat of magma.
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Chapter 13: A Biography of Earth
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Q1) Tyrannosaurus rex,one of the largest carnivorous dinosaur species,lived during the ________ Period.
A)Ordovician
B)Carboniferous
C)Jurassic
D)Cretaceous
Q2) The Western Interior Seaway reached its greatest level of continental inundation during the ________ Period.
A)Ordovician
B)Carboniferous
C)Jurassic
D)Cretaceous
Q3) The small cells of bacteria lack nuclei and are termed ________.
A)prokinetic
B)prokaryotic
C)eukaryotic
D)analgesic
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Chapter 14: Squeezing Power From a Stone: Energy Resources
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Q1) The principle concern with storing nuclear waste is ________.
A)allowing sufficient time for short-lived radioactive atoms to decay
B)ensuring access to groundwater to keep the waste cool
C)keeping spent fuel rods separated from other waste
D)making biodegradable waste containers
Q2) ________ occurs when a neutron strikes a radioactive atom.
A)Fusion
B)Fission
C)Enrichment
D)Atomic splicing
Q3) Most energy for human consumption in the industrial world comes from ________.
A)fossil fuels
B)wind
C)nuclear power
D)water
Q4) Which of the following would be the least viscous?
A)cooking gas
B)gasoline
C)motor oil
D)tar
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Chapter 15: Riches in Rock: Mineral Resources
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Q1) Most of the metals currently in commercial use ________.
A)were known to the ancients
B)are found only in North America and Asia
C)were discovered in the last two centuries
D)are excavated as native metals and do not require smelting
Q2) Some metals are considered precious metals because of their ________.
A)concentration in Earth's crust
B)durability
C)price per ounce
D)malleability
Q3) Mississippi Valley-type deposits are secondary enrichments primarily of ________ and ________.
A)gold;silver
B)tin;aluminum
C)copper;bronze
D)lead;zinc
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Chapter 16: Unsafe Ground: Landslides and Other Mass Movements
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Q1) Which situation would most likely host a slope failure?
A)a dry slope composed of gravel with an angle of repose of 30°
B)a saturated slope composed of gravel with an angle of repose of 27°
C)a saturated slope composed of sand with an angle of repose of 35°
D)a saturated slope composed of sand with an angle of repose of 37°
Q2) Why does the removal of material at the base of a slope decrease its stability?
A)Removing material decreases the surface tension between grains.
B)The force of gravity decreases,and the slope will fail.
C)The slope now has a much lower angle of repose.
D)The slope now exceeds the angle of repose.
Q3) Imagine you have just bought some property and notice that the trees on the slope have curved trunks.What type of landslide event do you likely have on your property?
A)solifluction
B)creep
C)slump
D)mudflow
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Chapter 17: Streams and Floods: the Geology of Running Water
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Q1) The total sediment load of a stream consists of all of following EXCEPT the ________ load.
A)turbulent
B)suspended
C)bed
D)dissolved
Q2) With time,a river may erode terrain to produce a low-lying plain that lies close to the base level,which is termed a(n)________.
A)astral plain
B)antedeluvial plain
C)peneplain
D)plateau
Q3) If a 50-year flood occurs on the Mississippi River this year,what is the probability that a flood of the same magnitude will occur in the following year?
A)zero
B)1%
C)2%
D)50%
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Chapter 18: Restless Realm: Oceans and Coasts
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Q1) How would the Coriolis affect the space station?
A)The space station would curve to the right because it is above the northern hemisphere.
B)The space station would curve to the left because it is above the southern hemisphere.
C)The space station would not curve because it is above the equator and not affected.
D)The space station would not be affected because it is not in Earth's atmosphere.
Q2) The entire state of Florida is composed of fossiliferous limestone,what does this imply about Florida during the recent past?
A)It was covered with caves.
B)It was a submergent coast.
C)It was an emergent coast.
D)It was in the mountains.
Q3) Which type of coastline would most likely contain estuaries or fjords?
A)a subductive coastline
B)an emergent coastline
C)a submergent coastline
D)a divergent coastline
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Chapter 19: A Hidden Reserve: Groundwater
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Q1) A regular kitchen sponge has ________ porosity but ________ permeability.
A)high;high
B)low;high
C)high;low
D)no;high
Q2) In many areas with karst terrain,people use sinkholes as places to dump garbage.What effect might this practice have on the groundwater supply?
A)None;sinkholes are not connected to groundwater sources.
B)It clogs the sinkholes so that water cannot percolate into the groundwater.
C)It could contaminate the groundwater in unconfined aquifers only.
D)It could contaminate the groundwater in any or all aquifers in the area.
Q3) The porosity of vesicular basalt is about 30%;however,when water is poured on it,the water does not come out the other side.How is this possible?
A)The vesicles in basalt are filled with sediments and thus cannot hold water.
B)The vesicles in basalt are not connected,so it has no permeability.
C)The minerals in the basalt react chemically with the water to produce gases.
D)Vesicular basalt is similar to a sponge and will soak up all the water.
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Chapter 20: An Envelope of Gas: Earths Atmosphere and Climate
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Q1) High-pressure systems are associated with weather that is ________.
A)cool and damp
B)extremely wet
C)warm and moist
D)clear and dry
Q2) Prevailing surface winds are named for the ________.
A)latitudinal belt in which they form
B)direction from which they blow
C)direction to which they blow
D)level of the atmosphere in which they form
Q3) In which layer of the atmosphere does temperature decrease with altitude because most of its heat is derived from the atmospheric layer immediately below it?
A)the mesosphere
B)the stratosphere
C)the thermosphere
D)the troposphere
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Chapter 21: Dry Regions: the Geology of Deserts
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Q1) The deserts found in the western United States are primarily the result of being located ________.
A)in the subtropics
B)within the rain shadow of one or more mountain ranges
C)near the center of a large continent
D)next to a cold ocean current
Q2) Most hot deserts ________.
A)retain their high temperatures throughout the night because there is no vegetation to absorb heat from the sediment at the surface
B)cool off greatly at night because of sparse vegetation,dry air,and little cloud cover
C)cool off by no more than 8°C on most nights
D)gain additional heat at night because the desert air rises
Q3) Coastal region deserts are most likely near ocean currents that are ________.
A)warm
B)cold
C)flowing east
D)flowing west
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Chapter 22: Amazing Ice: Glaciers and Ice Ages
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Q1) A glacier will always advance from its source area if the rate of accumulation is greater than the rate of ________.
A)subsidence
B)erosion
C)ablation
D)uplift
Q2) Today,continental glaciers are limited to Antarctica and ________.
A)Alaska
B)Greenland
C)Canada
D)Siberia
Q3) The effect of periodic changes in Earth's orbital eccentricity and magnitude and direction (precession)of its axial tilt on the advance and retreat of ice sheets was first proposed by ________.
A)Richter
B)Milankovitch
C)Mohorivic
D)Lyell
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Chapter 23: Global Change in the Earth System
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Q1) A runaway greenhouse effect is an example of ________.
A)a positive feedback mechanism
B)a negative feedback mechanism
C)the hydrologic cycle
D)a steady-state condition
Q2) Models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that by the year 2100,the sea level may rise by as much as ________.
A)10-20 mm
B)20-60 cm
C)10-20 m
D)20-60 m
Q3) As more ice in the Arctic Ocean melts,what effect does this have on the water?
A)Heat absorption increases as the albedo increases.
B)Heat absorption increases as the albedo decreases.
C)Heat absorption decreases as albedo the decreases.
D)There is no effect on heat absorption.
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Chapter 24: Introducing Rocks
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Q1) Geologists sometimes use analytical equipment to help identify rocks.One commonly used machine is the electron microprobe,which focuses a beam of electrons on a sample to determine ________.
A)the amount of radioactive minerals
B)how atoms are arranged
C)the atomic weight
D)the chemical composition
Q2) Imagine you are holding a rock composed of small sand grains cemented together.What subclassification of sedimentary rock is this?
A)clastic
B)chemical
C)igneous
D)crystalline
Q3) How does a metamorphic rock form?
A)Melt a rock to form molten material.
B)Subject a rock to high heat and pressure.
C)Break down a rock and then cement the pieces.
D)Cool a melted rock so quickly that no crystals form.
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Chapter 25: a Surface Veneer: Sediments and Soils
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Q1) Chemical weathering involves the breakdown of material due to ________.
A)mechanical breakdown of rock
B)baking in the hot sun
C)interaction with molten rock
D)interaction with water or air
Q2) Which of the following is a type of physical weathering?
A)thermal expansion
B)dissolution
C)oxidation
D)hydration
Q3) If the climate in an area has very little rainfall,what would be the characteristics of the soil in the area?
A)thick,with a lot of organic material
B)thin,with a lot of organic material
C)thick,with very little organic material
D)thin,with very little organic material
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Chapter 26: the Rock Cycle in the Earth System
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Q1) If a rock is buried,then exposed and eroded,and the sediment is then lithified,after which the rock is melted and cooled,what type of rock is the end result?
A)igneous
B)sedimentary
C)metamorphic
D)clastic
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of the three major rock groups?
A)igneous
B)crystalline
C)sedimentary
D)metamorphic
Q3) Identify which of the following paths could eventually transform a metamorphic rock into a sedimentary rock.
A)erosion and deposition burial melting
B)burial erosion and deposition melting
C)burial melting erosion and deposition
D)melting erosion and deposition melting
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Q1) A mountain range made of granite would produce a(n)________ gravity anomaly.
A)positive
B)negative
C)isostatic
D)magnetized
Q2) If an S-wave is traveling through rock when it encounters a magma chamber,the S-wave will ________.
A)slow down
B)speed up
C)remain at the same speed
D)not travel through the magma
Q3) Earth's magnetic field is produced in the ________.
A)crust
B)mantle
C)outer core
D)inner core
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Chapter 28: Memories of Past Life: Fossils and Evolution
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Q1) What is natural selection?
A)the theory that all life began in shallow coastal pools of protein-rich water
B)the theory that all life on Earth has evolved from single-celled organisms
C)the idea that animals who share specialized characteristics are part of a genus
D)the passing on of beneficial characteristics so that the most adaptable survive
Q2) Which of the following is an example of natural selection?
A)birds that evolve a new beak shape in order to exploit a different food source
B)the extinction of the mammoths due to hunting by a new predator
C)fossils of trilobites that have the same morphology but are separated by millions of years
D)the mass extinction of the dinosaurs due to a meteorite's impact 65 million years ago
Q3) What type of fossil forms when a buried organism decays or is dissolved,but the original shape is preserved in the sediment?
A)body fossil
B)trace fossil
C)mold fossil
D)cast fossil
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Chapter 29: Ever-Changing Landscapes and the
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Q1) What type of landforms might you expect to find if the climate in an area is very warm and wet?
A)valleys
B)glacial hills
C)mesas
D)sand dunes
Q2) If the area contains several small hills each with base elevation of 2,105 ft and summit elevations of 2,345 ft,2,456 ft,and 2,565 ft,what is the maximum relief in the area?
A)220 ft
B)460 ft
C)2,565 ft
D)2,105 ft
Q3) What would an area experiencing erosion look like compared to one experiencing deposition?
A)deep valleys or canyons versus large flat,open areas
B)large sand dunes versus large open bodies of water
C)rolling hills versus steep peaks
D)large,dry flatlands versus deep river channels
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