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Test Description: Rocks, Plate Tectonics, volcanoes

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

Aocean currents Bsea-floor topography CCoriolis Effect Datmospheric temperatures

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

Auniform Bsliding or transform Cconvergent Ddivergent

3) The convergence of two continental plates would produce

Afolded mountains Btrenches Cisland arcs Drift valleys

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

Atwo tectonic plates sliding past one another Bmagma rising from the mantle at a divergent boundary Cmountain building Dsubduction of one oceanic plate under a convergent boundary

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

Aan explosive eruption Balternate quiet and explosive eruption Ca quiet eruption Da cinder cone

6) The driving force that causes magma to erupt is

Apressure of gases. Bamount of silica. Cconvection current. Dwater.

7) Which best describes a cinder cone volcano?

Avoluminous lava producing gentle slope Bviolent and quiet eruptions Cviolent eruption producing steep slope Dviolent eruption producing gentle slope

8) Which type of rock is formed from magma?

Aorganic Bmetamorphic Csedimentary Digneous

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

Aregional metamorphism Bcontact metamorphism Cdynamothermal metamorphism Dhydrothermal metamorphism

10) Most sedimentary rocks are formed by

Auplifting and melting Bcompaction and cementation Cchanges deep within Earth Deruption of volcanoes

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