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1. What is a self-contained convective zone in a fluid in which upward motion of warmer

fluid in the center is balanced by downward motion of cooler fluid at the periphery?

A Subduction B Pressurization

C Convection

2. What is the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle?

A Atmosphere B Lithosphere

C Asthenosphere

3. What is an area on Earth over a mantle plume or an area under the rocky outer layer of
Earth where magma is hotter than surrounding magma?

A Volcano B Island Arc

C Hot spots

4. What is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body?

A Sill B Batholith

C Dike

5. What is a chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate, positioned in an arc shape
as seen from above?

A Island Arc B Hot spots

C Volcanic Arc 

6. What are places where plates slide sideways past each other?

A Convergent Boundaries B Transform Boundaries

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6. What are places where plates slide sideways past each other?

A Convergent Boundaries B Transform Boundaries

C Divergent Boundaries

7. What type of rock forms when mineral constituents in solution become supersaturated
and inorganically precipitate?

A Organic Sedimentary Rock B Chemical Sedimentary Rock

C Clastic Sedimentary Rock

8. What type of rocks are gneiss, phyllite, schist, and slate have a layered or banded
appearance that are produced by exposure to heat and directed pressure?

A Foliated Metamorphic Rocks B Organic Metamorphic rock

C Non Foliated Metamorphic Rocks

9. What is a phenomenon in which a saturated or partially saturated soil substantially loses

strength and stiffness in response to an applied stress such as shaking during an
earthquake or other sudden change in stress condition, in which material that is
ordinarily a solid behaves like a liquid?

A Liquefaction B Landslide

C Ground rupture

10. What investigation prove the magnetic field of the earth?

A Seismic waves B Meteorites

C Lava Flow

Answer Key
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1. c 2. b 3. c 4. c

5. c 6. b 7. b 8. a

9. a 10. c
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1. c 2. b 3. c 4. c

5. c 6. b 7. b 8. a

9. a 10. c

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