COLLEGE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

PRELMS EXAMINATION IN GEOL211

Name: ___________________________________ Course/ Yr. & section __________ Student no. ___________
Date/Time/Room: ___________________________ Instructor: Engr. Pheby M. Moog Score: ___________

INSTRUCTIONS:
c.) Outcrops d.) Folds
I. Identification w/ Choices: Encircle the
correct answer. 10.) Describes the distribution and motion of the plates
which causes earthquake.
1.) Is a branch of Science dealing with the study of the a.) Tension c.) Crystallization
earth. b.) Plate Tectonics d.) weathering
It is also known as Earth Science.
a.) Geotechnical Engineering c.) Geology 11.) ____________ a measure of a rock’s ability to hold
b.) Soil Mechanics d.) Soil fluid
a.) Specific Gravity c.) Isoprotism
2.) Is a branch of Geology that deals with the study c.) Permeability d.) Porosity
of rocks.
a.) Crystallography c.) Petrology
b.) Physical Geology d.) Minerology

3.) Rocks that undergone a change in form to a new

rock 12.) Type of Sedimentary Rocks that is composed
a.) Metamorphic Rocks c.) Igneous Rocks mainly of material that is transported as solid fragments
b.) Sedimentary Rocks d.) NOTC and then cemented together by minerals that
precipitated from solution.
4.) ____________ are formed by the deposition of a.) Biochemical c.) Chemical
material b.) Clastic d.) Organic
at the Earth's surface and (or) within bodies of
water. 13.) _____________ a measure of the change of length
a.) Metamorphic rocks c.) Sedimentary which was initially oven dried then soaked in water till it
rocks became fully saturated.
b.) Igneous rocks d.) NOTC a.) Porosity c.) Swelling
Coefficient
5.) ___________ are formed from solidification and b.) Specific Gravity d.) Seismic Velocity
cooling
of magma. 14.) _____________ a measure of the ability of a
a.) Metamorphic rocks c.) Sedimentary material to transmit fluids
rocks a.) Porosity c.) Permeability
b.) Igneous rocks d.) NOTC b.) Specific Gravity d.) Seismic Velocity

6.) When magma cools either underground or on the 15.) _____________ occurs when rocks buried at
surface depths of more than 2000 meters in sedimentary basins.
and hardens into an igneous rock a.) Fault Metamorphism c.) Regional
of magma. Metamorphism
a.) Metamorphism c.) Sedimentation b.) Burial Metamorphism d.) Shock
b.) Weathering d.) Crystallization Metamorphism

7.) ____________ rocks typically from lava which

crystallize rapidly on or near Earth’s surface with
undistinguishable individual crystals. II. ENUMERATION: Write the answers on the
a.) Vitreous (glassy) c.) Aphanitic blank
b.) Pegmatitic d.) Frothy

8.) _____________ also called as Impact

metamorphism. A. Classification of Rocks (16-18)
a.) Fault Metamorphism c.) Regional
Metamorphism 1.
b.) Burial Metamorphism d.) Shock
Metamorphism ___________________________________________

9.) ___________ the surfaces which separate a single 2.

stratum from the next stratum above or which may be
any thickness from a few millimeters to a meter or more ___________________________________________
a.) Bedding c.) Fault

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B. Kinds of Faults (19-23)
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E.) Patterns of Outcrops (33-38)
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C. Factors that controls Rock Porosity (24-27)
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D. Atleast 5 Uses of Sedimentary Rocks (28-32) 6.

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F.) Parts of a Fold (39-42)
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G.) Atleast 8 Engineering Properties of Rocks (43-50)

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