Have you ever looked at the earth and wonder what secrets it holds from the lakes, seas and the major environmental sites that most people can’t explain? One way to understand it all is by taking up geology as most of your questions will get answered there. Do you wish to learn about geology? The quiz will help you do so. Try it out and tell us what you think.
Frost wedging and heaving
Pressure release
Thermal expansion and contraction
Burrowing and root wedging
All of the above
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Tailings
Talus
Conglomerate
Exfoliation
Regolith
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Is the material always comprising the top-most soil horizon
Is dark organic-rich material formed by bacterial decay
Is leaf-litter
Must include sediments
None of the above
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The movement of weathered material from its source site.
The decomposition of rock.
The disintegration of rock.
The weathering of rock and transportation of sediment.
The disintegration of soil.
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Sheet jointing
Rock bursts
Exfoliation
Exfoliation domes
All of the above
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Any material which has settled from water.
. organic, rock and mineral fragments, and precipitated minerals.
. rocks which have been altered by compression.
Any layered rock consisting of grains.
Rocks which have been weathered.
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Climate
Particle size
Parent material
Humidity
Gravity
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Mechanistic and compositional
Mechanical and physical
Chemical and mechanical
Physical and chemical
Organic and inorganic
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The atmosphere
Soil
Groundwater
Surface water
All of the above
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Sandstone
Rhyolite
Granite
Limestone
Shale
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Ferromagnesian minerals
Sand minerals
Dissolved Ca
Clay minerals
Accessory minerals
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Solids produced by chemical and mechanical weathering
Minerals precipitated from solution
Minerals secreted by organisms
A and B
All of the above
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Igneous rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Other metamorphic rocks
Both A and B
All of the above
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It was deposited near its source by a debris flow
It was deposited by a glacier
Its sediments were rounded by chemical weathering
It was transported and deposited by stream currents or wave action
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Hidden and shape
Hidden and rock
Change and rock
Change and shape
Hidden and body
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Dikes
Batholiths
Laccoliths
Sills
All of the above
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Index of recrystallization
Index fossils
Index minerals
Index polymorphs
Index cards
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Borax
Bauxite
Laterite
Phosphate
Manganese
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The oriole
The orio
The aureole
The arena
The areal
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The transport process or mechanism
The transport distance
Depositional environmental
B and C
All of the above
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Lignite, peat, anthracite, bituminous
Peat, bituminous, anthracite, lignite
Peat, lignite, anthracite, bituminous
Peat, lignite, bituminous, anthracite
Lignite, peat, bituminous, anthracite
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Lignite
Anthracite
Bituminous
Peat
Subbituminous
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Calcium
Sodium
Silica
B and C, only
All of the above
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Wind
Waves and currents
Glaciers
Storms
Streams
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Carbolic acid
Carbonic acid
Bicarbomate acid
Carbon dioxide acid
Sulfuric acid
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Porous and permeable beds bounded on all sides by impermeable rock.
Large cavities such as cave systems in limestone reefs.
Structural traps.
A and C
All of the above.
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It cannot be extracted from rock
It is not common enough to be economical
It contains many pollutants
The carbon cannot be economically separated from the rock
It does not burn efficiently
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Cold and arid
Warm and humid
Warm and arid
Humid and seasonal
Cold and humid
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Small grains of a variety of sizes (diameters).
Large grains all of approximately the same size (diameter).
Grains of moderate but different dimensions (diameters).
Predominantly round grains.
Predominantly smooth grains.
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Cementation
Compaction
Decreased void space
A and B
B and C
All of the above
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Hydrogenation
Reduction
Dissolution
Solution
Oxygenation
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Limestone
Sandstone
Quartz
Calcite
Feldspar
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They hold soil particles apart
They allow water and gases to enter soil
They retain water and supply nutrients
They allow the flow of grounwater
They drain poorly
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The pre-existing rock from which the sediment was derived
The weathering processes responsible for creating the sediment
The processes by which the sediments were transported
The environment in which the sediment was deposited
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The cascade range
The mid-oceanic ridges
The san andreas fault zone
The valles marianas rift zone
The mendocino fracture zone
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The remains of dinosaurs
Any type of fossils
Microorganism like algae
The same types of plants which form coal deposits
Marine invertebrate animals
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The Greenstone formation of Montana.
The Green River Formation of Wyoming.
The Jurassic salt domes of the Gulf of Mexico.
The Athabaskan Formation of Alberta Canada.
The La Brea Tar Pits of Los Angeles, California.
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Hydrothermal solution
Hydroxide alteration
Geothermal alteration
Hydrothermal alteration
Hydrostatic alteration
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Gneiss
Slate
Honfels
B and C
None of the above
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Dynamic metamorphism
Hydrothermal alteration
Contact metamorphism
Regional metamorphism
Country rock baking
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Are index minerals formed from clay-rich parent rocks.
Form from the same parent rocks under different combinations of pressure and temperature.
Can transform from one to the other depending on changes in temperature and pressure.
Have the same chemical composition.
All of the above
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Slate, phyllite, gneiss, schist
slate, amphibolite, schist, phyllite
Schist, phyllite, gneiss, slate
Slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss
Schist, phyllite, amphibolite, gneiss
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Humid and seasonal
Hot and arid
Cold and humid
Withing mountain regions
In the tropics
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Convergent plate margins
Regional metamorphism
Differential pressure
Both B and C
All of the above
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Arid and hot
Arid and cold
Humid and cold
Humid and hot
All of the above
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Stratified hematite and magnetite.
Banded hematite.
Banded iron formation
Chemical iron formations.
Sedimentary iron formation.
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Slate
Gneiss
Hornfels
A and B
All of the above
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Disequilibrium is reached with the new physical and chemical environment.
A dynamic equilibrium is reached.
Equilibrium with the new environment is disturbed.
The rock reaches equilibrium with its new environment.
The rock's chemistry and texture become increasingly unstable.
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