US Major Geology Test 4

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Question 1

What is lava?

A) Surface melt

B) Magma chamber

C) Solid rock

D) Ash only

Question 2

What is a fault?

A) Fold hill

B) Crack line

C) River bend

D) No crack

Question 3

What is erosion?

A) Building up

B) Freezing

C) Wearing away

D) Drying

Question 4

What is pumice?

A) Dense granite

B) Soft clay

C) Sea glass

D) Floating volcanic rock

Question 5

What is the Yucatán?

A) Mexican peninsula

B) US state

C) Island nation

D) River delta

Question 6

What is a butte?

A) Tall mountain

B) Small flat hill

C) Wide river

D) Deep lake

Question 7

What is a bay?

A) Mountain pass

B) Desert flat

C) Curved coastal inlet

D) River fork

Question 8

Which of the following best defines an archipelago?

A) Mountain line

B) River web

C) Desert sea

D) Island chain

Question 9

Which term means "Hardness ranking"?

A) the Mohs scale

B) geology

C) the layers

D) the crust

Question 10

What best defines an earthquake?

A) Wind gust

B) Shaking plates

C) Ocean wave

D) Rain burst

Question 11

What best defines sandstone?

A) Granite

B) Marble

C) Sandy layers rock

D) Slate

Question 12

Which of the following best defines relative dating?

A) Exact years

B) No dating

C) Carbon only

D) Order by layers

Question 13

Provide the definition of the Florida peninsula:

A) Southern point land

B) Island chain

C) Mountain spur

D) River mouth

Question 14

Which term means "Dark lava rock"?

A) geology

B) basalt

C) the layers

D) the crust

Question 15

Provide the definition of a moraine:

A) Sand dune

B) River delta

C) Glacier rock pile

D) Coral reef

Question 16

Provide the definition of a strait:

A) Wide ocean

B) Long river

C) Deep lake

D) Narrow water pass

Question 17

Which term means "Changed-by-heat rock"?

A) metamorphic rock

B) geology

C) the layers

D) the crust

Question 18

Which of the following best defines a volcano cone?

A) River delta

B) Erupted ash hill

C) Sand dune

D) Coral reef

Question 19

Which of the following best defines an oxbow lake?

A) Crater lake

B) Salt lake

C) Curved cut-off lake

D) Long river

Question 20

Which term means "Layered deposits"?

A) geology

B) the layers

C) the crust

D) sedimentary rock

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