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Test Description: Rocks, Plate Tectonics, volcanoes

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1) Which of the following provides evidence for plate tectonics?

Aatmospheric temperatures Bsea-floor topography Cocean currents DCoriolis Effect

2) A fault is an evidence of which kind of plate boundary?

Aconvergent Bsliding or transform Cdivergent Duniform

3) The convergence of two continental plates would produce

Arift valleys Bisland arcs Cfolded mountains Dtrenches

4) Which of the following is most responsible for the formation of new crust at the edge of a tectonic plate?

Amountain building Btwo tectonic plates sliding past one another Cmagma rising from the mantle at a divergent boundary Dsubduction of one oceanic plate under a convergent boundary

5) An eruption of thin, fluid lava would likely be

Aan explosive eruption Ba quiet eruption Ca cinder cone Dalternate quiet and explosive eruption

6) The driving force that causes magma to erupt is

Aamount of silica. Bpressure of gases. Cconvection current. Dwater.

7) Which best describes a cinder cone volcano?

Aviolent eruption producing gentle slope Bvoluminous lava producing gentle slope Cviolent eruption producing steep slope Dviolent and quiet eruptions

8) Which type of rock is formed from magma?

Aorganic Bigneous Csedimentary Dmetamorphic

9) Which type of metamorphism is mostly likely to be caused by small intrusion of magma into dry rock material?

Ahydrothermal metamorphism Bdynamothermal metamorphism Ccontact metamorphism Dregional metamorphism

10) Most sedimentary rocks are formed by

Aeruption of volcanoes Bchanges deep within Earth Ccompaction and cementation Duplifting and melting

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