US Major Geology Advanced Test 1

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Question 1

What is a glacier?

A) Slow moving ice

B) Fast river

C) Dry dune

D) Hot spring

Question 2

What is plate tectonics?

A) Still earth

B) Moving plates

C) No plates

D) Spinning core

Question 3

What is the Yucatán?

A) US state

B) Island nation

C) Mexican peninsula

D) River delta

Question 4

What is relative dating?

A) Exact years

B) No dating

C) Carbon only

D) Order by layers

Question 5

What are the layers?

A) Crust mantle core

B) Air only

C) Water only

D) No layers

Question 6

What is marble?

A) Sandstone

B) Changed limestone

C) Granite

D) Shale

Question 7

What is igneous rock?

A) Pressed layers

B) Changed rock

C) Cooled magma rock

D) Sand pile

Question 8

Which term means "Erupted ash hill"?

A) geology

B) the layers

C) the crust

D) a volcano cone

Question 9

Which of the following best defines magma?

A) Underground melt

B) Lava flow

C) Solid rock

D) Water

Question 10

Which of the following best defines pumice?

A) Dense granite

B) Floating volcanic rock

C) Soft clay

D) Sea glass

Question 11

What best defines a peninsula?

A) Full island

B) Landlocked plain

C) Near-island land

D) Ocean trench

Question 12

What best defines a lava tube?

A) Water pipe

B) Mine shaft

C) Sea cave

D) Drained magma tunnel

Question 13

What best defines a volcano?

A) Erupting opening

B) Waterfall

C) Cave

D) Cliff

Question 14

Provide the definition of the rock cycle:

A) One way

B) Change loop

C) No change

D) Melting only

Question 15

Which of the following best defines the hardest mineral?

A) Quartz

B) Talc

C) Diamond

D) Gold

Question 16

Which term means "Wind-blown silt"?

A) geology

B) the layers

C) the crust

D) loess

Question 17

Which term means "Layered deposits"?

A) sedimentary rock

B) geology

C) the layers

D) the crust

Question 18

Provide the definition of weathering:

A) Polishing gems

B) Breaking rocks

C) Melting ice

D) Burning coal

Question 19

Which term means "Speckled hard rock"?

A) geology

B) the layers

C) granite

D) the crust

Question 20

Which of the following best defines lava?

A) Magma chamber

B) Solid rock

C) Ash only

D) Surface melt

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