How Much Do You Know About Geology Quiz!
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Questions and Answers
- 1.What are small pieces of rocks or minerals?
- A.
Soil
- B.
Visible Sediment
- C.
Detrital
- 2.What is the addition of oxygen to metallic elements in rocks?
- 3.Permeable underground rock layer saturated with slowly moving ground water:
- A.
Recharge
- B.
Aquifer
- C.
Core of Depression
- 4.What kind of material creates rocks called tuff?
- 5.What type of pattern has multiple channels, and develops when sediment supply is higher but rainfall is low?
- A.
Braided Stream
- B.
Dendritic
- C.
Trellis
- 6.Hawaiian volcanoes are examples of what?
- 7.True or False: There are three main types of sediment.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.What has high enegry but not high velocity
- 9.Places where minerals are deposited:
- A.
Continents
- B.
Coast Lines
- C.
Marine
- D.
All of the above
- 10.What is a crescent shaped lake?
- 11.What is formed by the transportation, disposition, and lithification of sediments derived by the weathering of other rocks?
- A.
Sedimentary Rocks
- B.
Metaphorphic Rocks
- C.
Igneous Rocks
- 12.The ground area that contributes water to a stream after a rain:
- 13.Coquina and limestone are examples of ___ reservoir rocks.
- A.
Good
- B.
Poor
- 14.Where do you have dissolved limestone as a surface?
- 15.The amount of empty space between grains in a rock is:
- A.
Permeability
- B.
Porosity
- C.
Discharge
- 16.What type of volcano forms in a rift zone?
- 17.If the running water has sand in it, what increases its erosive ability?
- A.
Hydrolic Action
- B.
Water Abrasion
- C.
Bed Load
- 18.What is caused by first moving water and is the washing away and transport of sediment?
- 19.Places where a plume of magma rises to the surface, often for millions of years:
- A.
Volcanos
- B.
Hot spot
- C.
Pahoehoe
- 20.Regional arrangement of stream channels:
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