Geology Laboratory
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Geology Laboratory is a hands-on course designed to complement theoretical knowledge with practical skills in the study of Earths materials and processes. Through a series of laboratory exercises, students learn to identify minerals and rocks, interpret topographic and geologic maps, analyze sediment samples, and understand geological structures. The course emphasizes scientific observation, data collection, and critical analysis, providing foundational experience in using laboratory tools and techniques commonly employed in geoscience fields. It aims to deepen understanding of geological phenomena and foster skills necessary for fieldwork and research.
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Physical Geology Earth Revealed 9th Edition by Diane Carlson
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Chapter 1:
Tectonics,and Other Important Concepts
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Q1) A ___ is a hot,turbulent mixture of expanding gases and volcanic ash that flows rapidly down the side of a volcano.
A)pyroclastic cloud
B)mud flow
C)lava flow
D)pyroclastic flow
E)hyaloclastic flow
Answer: D
Q2) Geology uses the scientific method to explain natural aspects of the Earth.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Convergent boundaries,due to their geometry,are the sites of the largest earthquakes on Earth.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Earths Interior and Geophysical Properties
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Q1) The composition of the upper mantle is the ultramafic rock peridotite.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Seismic P-waves _____ through continental crust relative to oceanic crust.
A)travel faster
B)travel slower
C)stay the same velocity
D)are refracted
E)are reflected
Answer: B
Q3) The Earth's core is made up of equal parts cobalt and iron.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The way that P-waves are refracted within the core suggests that there is a solid inner core.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Sea Floor
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Q1) Pelagic sediment is sediment that settles slowly through the ocean water.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) _____ are V-shaped valleys that run across continental shelves and down continental slopes.
A)Rift valleys
B)Submarine canyons
C)Submarine trenches
D)Guyots
E)Fracture zones
Answer: B
Q3) _______ is an island on a mid-oceanic ridge.
A)Madagascar
B)Japan
C)Cuba
D)Hawaii
E)Iceland
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics
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Q1) Measured rates of sea-floor spreading range from ______ cm/year.
A)0.1 to 1
B)100 to 1000
C)1000 to 10,000
D)1 to 24
E)0.01 to 0.1
Q2) A tectonic plate is always made up of a combination of continental and oceanic crust.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Suture zones in continents mark old sites of mantle plumes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Wegener reassembled the continents to form the super continent _____.
A)Asia
B)Pangea
C)Laurasia
D)Gondwanaland
E)Madagascar
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Chapter 5: Mountain Belts and the Continental Crust
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Q1) Isostatic adjustment takes place during orogeny.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the concept of isostasy,lighter,less dense,continental crust "floats" higher on the mantle than denser oceanic crust.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Of the two major mountain belts in North America,the _______ are in the West.
A)Urals
B)Himalyan
C)Appalachians
D)North American Cordillera
E)Andes
Q4) The region of a continent that has been structurally stable for a prolonged period of time is called the craton.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Geologic Structures
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Q1) If a bed strikes north it must ________.
A)dip south
B)dip either east or west
C)be horizontal
D)have a strike of 90 degrees
E)have a strike of 270 degrees
Q2) The side of the fault above the inclined fault surface is the ___.
A)footwall
B)hanging wall
C)isoclinal wall
D)plunging wall
E)sheet wall
Q3) In a normal fault,the hanging-wall block has moved ______ relative to the footwall block.
A)up
B)down
C)side to side
D)up at a steep angle
E)down at a steep angle
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Chapter 7: Earthquakes
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Q1) Most earthquakes occur at great depths.
A)True
B)False
Q2) For most of the 20<sup>th</sup> century earthquake magnitude was reported on the _______ scale,a scale that has never exceeded a magnitude 8.6.
A)moment magnitude
B)surface-wave
C)Richter
D)Gutenberg
E)Modified Mercalli
Q3) ____ are seismic waves that travel through the Earth's interior,spreading out from the focus in all directions.
A)X-waves
B)R-waves
C)Surface waves
D)Refracted waves
E)Body waves
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Chapter 8: Time and Geology
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Q1) _____ are subdivisions of eras.
A)Ages
B)Intervals
C)Periods
D)Formations
E)Eons
Q2) A(n)_______ fossil is a fossil from a very short-lived,geographically widespread species that existed during a specific interval of geologic time.
A)assemblage
B)range
C)age
D)interval
E)index
Q3) ______ denotes the vast amount of time that precedes the Paleozoic Era.
A)Mesozoic
B)Paleozoic
C)Quaternary
D)Precambrian
E)Cenozoic
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Chapter 9: Atoms,Elements and Minerals
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Q1) The quality and intensity of light that is reflected from the surface of a mineral is termed luster.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Silica is a term for oxygen combined with silicon.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ____ elements make up 98% of the Earth's crust.
A)Fourteen
B)Ninety-two
C)Two
D)Twenty
E)Eight
Q4) The atomic mass number of an atom is the total number of ___ in the atom.
A)electrons
B)neutrons
C)protons
D)protons and neutrons
E)protons,neutrons,and electrons
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Chapter 10: Volcanism and Extrusive Rocks
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Q1) Silicic lavas,which are relatively high in silica,tend to be more fluid than mafic magmas.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Composite volcanoes are also called cinder cone volcanoes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Pillow structures,pillow-shaped rounded masses,form where lava is extruded under water.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most of the better known composite volcanoes on Earth are __.
A)in the mid-ocean ridge system
B)in the circum-Pacific belt
C)in the Mediterranean belt
D)All of the choices are correct.
E)All of the choices are correct,except in the Mediterranean belt.
Q5) Most of the gas released by volcanic eruptions is sulfur dioxide.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The crust beneath the world's oceans is mafic ________.
A)iron
B)asthenosphere
C)granite and rhyolite
D)basalt and gabbro
E)Answers iron,asthenosphere,and granite and rhyolite are all correct.
Q2) On its slow journey through the crust,mafic magma evolves into intermediate magma by differentiation and assimilation of ______.
A)mantle rocks
B)basalt
C)gabbro
D)silicic rocks
Q3) ___ are igneous rocks that are silica-deficient but high in iron and magnesium.
A)Felsic
B)Intermediate
C)Oxide
D)Mafic
E)Sulfate
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Chapter 12: Weathering and Soil
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Q1) ______,formed as water evaporates inside small spaces in rock,helps disintegrate desert rocks.
A)Calcite
B)Salt
C)Quartz
D)Hematite
E)Ice
Q2) Hydrogen ions given off by natural acids can disrupt the crystal structure of most minerals,making the structure susceptible to further decomposition.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Water that has trickled down into a joint in a rock can freeze,expand,and _____.
A)glue the rock more tightly together
B)make the rock harder
C)seal the crack thereby preventing further weathering
D)widen the crack and hastening the rock's disintegration
E)displace surface acids that may weaken the rock
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Chapter 13: Mass Wasting
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Q1) As a result of the landslide at the Vaiont Dam,northern Italy,in 1963,approximately 3000 people died __.
A)as their houses that had been built on the landslide were destroyed
B)as their houses were buried by the landslide
C)when the landslide impacted and destroyed the dam structure
D)when slope failure allowed the dam structure to be pushed downstream by the water pressure of the reservoir
E)as a huge wave of water was displaced from the reservoir by the landslide
Q2) Assuming that all other conditions are identical,a slope that is ___ is more stable.
A)more nearly vertical
B)more steeply inclined
C)more gently inclined
D)Slope angle has nothing to do with slope stability.
Q3) Shear strength __.
A)is the total force/stress resisting movement
B)is the same as shear resistance
C)increases as the amount of water in soil increases
D)is related to slope angle
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Chapter 14: Sediment and Sedimentary Rocks
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Q1) A(n)____ is a body of sediment deposited when a river flows into standing water,like a lake or sea.
A)formation
B)alluvial fan
C)delta
D)sandbar
E)intrusive deposit
Q2) Chalk is not a sedimentary rock.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sedimentary structures are features found in sedimentary rocks that provide clues that help interpret their transport and deposition.
A)True
B)False
Q4) _______ limestones are precipitated through the actions of organisms.
A)Hyaloclastic
B)Calciclastic
C)Bioclastic
D)Siliciclastic
E)Pyroclastic
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Chapter 15: Metamorphism, Metamorphic Rocks, and Hydrothermal Rocks
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Q1) ___ metamorphism takes place at considerable depth underground (generally greater than 5 km).
A)Contact
B)Regional
C)Burial
D)Hydrothermal
E)Shock
Q2) _______ forms when a limestone recrystallizes during metamorphism.
A)Marble
B)Gneiss
C)Phyllite
D)Quartzite
E)Coal
Q3) When hot solutions emerge from the ocean floor,submarine hot springs called ________ form.
A)ophiolites
B)geysers
C)hydrothermal vents
D)mud pots
E)fountains
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Chapter 16: Streams and Floods
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Q1) A bar in a river channel is a ridge of sediment,usually sand and gravel,deposited in the middle or along the banks of a stream.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A graded stream can be deepening its channel by down cutting while part of its energy is also widening its valley by ______ erosion.
A)downward
B)longitudinal
C)lateral
D)distal
E)proximal
Q3) ___ influences the velocity of a river along with gradient.
A)Direction of flow
B)Channel shape and roughness
C)Temperature of the water
D)Chemistry of the water
E)Latitude of the river
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Chapter 17: Ground Water
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Q1) ________ refers to the ability of a rock to transmit fluids.
A)Porosity
B)Hydraulic head
C)Viscosity
D)Permeability
E)Void
Q2) ____ are closed depressions found where land surfaces are underlain by limestone bedrock.
A)Cirque valleys
B)Craters
C)Kettle holes
D)Sinkholes
E)Inversions
Q3) Shales can have substantial porosity but have low _____.
A)cement
B)permeability
C)void space
D)pore space
E)conductivity
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Chapter 18: Deserts and Wind Action
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Q1) The steep downwind face of a sand dune is called the ______.
A)slip face
B)coarsest grains
C)longest dimension
D)gentle slope
E)upwind surface
Q2) A desert is any region which has a dry or arid climate with a low rainfall of less than 25 cm per year.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Dune sand throughout the world is composed of the stable mineral quartz.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The world's best-known deserts lie in a belt 10-15 degrees centered at latitude of 30 degree (North and South).
A)True
B)False
Q5) Where sand supply is limited a barchan dune generally develops.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Glaciers and Glaciation
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Q1) A(n)___________ is an ice-transported boulder that was not derived from the underlying bedrock.
A)clast
B)esker
C)nunatak
D)erratic
E)inselberg
Q2) The longest ice core drilled was obtained at ____,Antarctica,in the 1990s.
A)McMurdo
B)Vostok
C)Palmer
D)the south pole
E)the geographic center
Q3) Sharp ridges called ___ separate adjacent glacially carved valleys.
A)tarns
B)cirques
C)arêtes
D)cairns
E)moraines
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Chapter 20: Waves,Beaches and Coasts
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Q1) U.S.coasts with gently sloping plains,such as those along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico,are ____.
A)depositional
B)emergent
C)erosional
D)tectonic
E)shaped by organisms
Q2) A _____ is a ridge of sediment that cuts a bay off from the ocean.
A)spit
B)tombolo
C)barrier island
D)berm
E)beach
Q3) Seawalls are constructed perpendicular to the shore to prevent wave erosion.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Groins are short walls built parallel to shore to keep sand from moving.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Geologic Resources
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Q1) Once oil is formed it must accumulate in concentrations that can be drilled and pumped,these concentrations are called ________.
A)traps
B)accumulations
C)concentrations
D)beds
E)reserves
Q2) _______ is an unusual mixture of ice and methane.
A)Pumice
B)Oil sand
C)Condensate
D)Distillate
E)Gas hydrate
Q3) The world's largest geothermal power plant is at ____.
A)Hot Springs,Arkansas
B)Handford,Washington
C)Yucca Mountain,Nevada
D)New Zealand
E)the Geysers in the Coast Range of northern California.
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Chapter 22: The Earths Companions
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Q1) The four outer (giant)planets are composed largely of _______.
A)hydrogen
B)ammonia
C)carbon dioxide
D)water vapor
E)nitrogen
Q2) Small _____ are rocky or iron bodies in our solar system that remain irregular in shape because of their weak gravity.
A)asteroids
B)satellites
C)shooting stars
D)comets
E)quasars
Q3) _____ is the closest moon to Jupiter of the Galilean satellites.
A)Io
B)Europa
C)Ganymede
D)Callisto
E)Titan
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