Week 1: Introduction To Geology Quiz
PAPER CODE: GS 1010 Instructions: There is a total of 15 questions in this paper. The entire paper is divided into two sections, A and B. All sections are compulsory. Questions in each section are of different types. Section – A contains a total of 10 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ). Each MCQ type question has four choices out of which only one choice is the correct answer. Section – B contains a total of 5 Structured and short assay questions.
- 1.
![Referring to the diagram above, path A is _______
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Referring to the diagram above, path A is _______- A.
A) Cooling and crystallization
- B.
B) Burial and lithification
- C.
C) Weathering and deposition
- D.
D) Cooling and uplift
- 2.Referring to the diagram above, path B is _______
- A.
A) Uplift, weathering and erosion, deposition
- B.
B) Deposition, heat and pressure, weathering
- C.
C) Melting, crystallization, heat and pressure
- D.
D) Deposition, lithification and crystallization.
- 3.Referring to the diagram what factor(s) are responsible for path C?
- A.
A) Melting
- B.
B) Crystallization
- C.
C) Heat and pressure
- D.
D) Burial and lithification
- 4.One of geology's greatest contributions to human thought is:
- A.
A) The realization that the world is round
- B.
B) The realization that the sun is not the center of the solar system
- C.
C) The recognition of the long span of time involved in earth history
- D.
D) The recognition that the earth is the center of the solar system
- 5.Because we rarely witness dramatic changes in the Earth, we can conclude that the Earth is not changing very much.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Earth materials always trace the complete rock cycle from sediment through igneous rocks.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.In general, igneous rocks:
- A.
A) Form at relative high temperature
- B.
B) Form by crystallization of solids from liquid
- C.
C) Form at high and low pressures
- D.
D) All of the above
- 8.Minerals:
- A.
A) Can form by life processes (organic)
- B.
B) Are crystalline solids
- C.
C) Have a unique chemical composition
- D.
D) Can be any state (solid, liquid or gas) as long as the state is natural.
- 9.Metamorphic rocks are changed rocks. Which of the following rock types could be the "parent" of a metamorphic rock?
- A.
A) Sedimentary
- B.
B) Igneous
- C.
C) Metamorphic
- D.
D) All the above
- 10.The study of rock deformation and geometry is known as
- A.
A) Structural geology
- B.
B) Geophysics
- C.
C) Engineering geology
- D.
D) Petrology
- 11.What is geology?
- 12.Differentiate between a rock and mineral?
- 13.Name the three types of rocks briefly describing how each is formed?
- 14.What is weathering?
- 15.Name three (3) agents of weathering?
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