1. Mountains that form when large areas of Earth gradually move skyward as a unit are called mountains.
A. low-lying
B. uplifted
C. improvisation
D. impoverished
2. What is another name for the Circum-Pacific Belt?
A. Pacific Ring of Fire
B. Mount Pinatubo
C. Mediterranean Belt
D. Mount Vesuvius
3. Soil liquefaction occurs when
A. seismic vibrations pollute the entire atmosphere.
B. seismic vibrations impact only the inner core of Earth.
C. seismic vibrations have no impact on topsoil.
D. seismic vibrations cause the ground to act like a liquid.
4. The bowl-shaped depression at the top of a volcano is a
A. vent.
B. fissure.
C. conduit.
D. crater.
5. Well into the twentieth century, many scientists believed the ocean floor was
A. flat.
B. rocky.
C. sandy.
D. round.
6. Which statement best describes the Richter scale?
A. It's a numerical rating system that measures the largest seismic waves during an earthquake.
B. It's named after a scientist who studied tornadoes.
C. It's a test given to all geologists.
D. It's a numerical system that measures the smallest seismic waves during an earthquake.
7. The process in which the floors of a building collapse on one another is known as
A. a landslide.
B. earthquake shakedown.
C. earthquake panic.
D. pancaking.
8. Any fracture or system of fractures along which Earth moves is known as a
A. strain.
B. deformation.
C. stress.
D. fault.
9. What type of instrument measures seismic waves?
A. Seismic scale
B. Seismogram
C. Seismometer
D. Mercalli scale
10. Consider the following scenario: You live near the shoreline and hear a report that an earthquake hit the ocean floor near your location. Your town may experience
A. hail.
B. a tsunami.
C. rain.
D. snow.
11. was the first person to propose the idea of moving continents as a scientific hypothesis.
A. Charles Richter
B. Alfred Wegener
C. Antonio Snider-Pelligrini
D. Abraham Ortelius
12. Which of the following is not a convergent boundary?
A. Oceanic-oceanic
B. Continental-volcanic
C. Continental-continental
D. Oceanic-continental
13. The three types of stress that act on Earth's rocks are compression, tension, and
A. tension.
B. tephra.
C. shale.
D. shear.
14. The condition of equilibrium that results in the displacement of the mantle by the continental and oceanic crust is known as
A. root rebound.
B. topography
C. isostasy.
D. erosion.
15. currents assist in the transfer of thermal energy from warmer climates to cooler climates.
A. Plutonium
B. Convection
C. Platonic
D. Tectonic
16. Which earthquake scale takes into consideration the damage caused by an earthquake?
A. Moment magnitude scale
B. Amplitude scale
C. Richter scale
D. Modified Mercalli scale
17. The three major types of volcanoes are
A. shield volcanoes, cinder cones, and calderas.
B. shield volcanoes, cinder cones, and composite volcanoes.
C. shield volcanoes, conduits, and vents.
D. calderas, conduits, and vents.
18. Lava and other materials that are launched from a volcano into the air are referred to as
A. basalts.
B. flows.
C. tephra.
D. magma.
19. describes all the processes associated with the discharge of magma, hot fluids, ash, and gases.
A. Magnetism
B. Volcanism
C. Hydraulic energy
D. Thermal energy
20. Intrusive igneous rock bodies are called
A. cinder cones.
B. plutons.
C. tectonics.
D. tephra.