US Major Geology Test 5

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Question 1

What is the Mohs scale?

A) Hardness ranking

B) Heat scale

C) No scale

D) Weight rank

Question 2

What is the Florida peninsula?

A) Island chain

B) Southern point land

C) Mountain spur

D) River mouth

Question 3

What is a fossil fuel?

A) Renewable

B) Nuclear

C) Ancient organic fuel

D) No fuel

Question 4

What is sedimentary rock?

A) Melted rock

B) Changed rock

C) Lava flow

D) Layered deposits

Question 5

What is the hardest mineral?

A) Diamond

B) Quartz

C) Talc

D) Gold

Question 6

What is karst?

A) Sand desert

B) Cave limestone land

C) Lava field

D) Granite peak

Question 7

What are the layers?

A) Air only

B) Water only

C) Crust mantle core

D) No layers

Question 8

What best defines an archipelago?

A) Mountain line

B) River web

C) Desert sea

D) Island chain

Question 9

What best defines lava?

A) Surface melt

B) Magma chamber

C) Solid rock

D) Ash only

Question 10

Provide the definition of an earthquake:

A) Wind gust

B) Shaking plates

C) Ocean wave

D) Rain burst

Question 11

Provide the definition of sandstone:

A) Granite

B) Marble

C) Sandy layers rock

D) Slate

Question 12

What best defines relative dating?

A) Exact years

B) No dating

C) Carbon only

D) Order by layers

Question 13

Which of the following best defines the rock cycle?

A) Change loop

B) One way

C) No change

D) Melting only

Question 14

Which of the following best defines basalt?

A) Sandstone

B) Dark lava rock

C) Limestone

D) Marble

Question 15

Which of the following best defines a gulf?

A) Small pond

B) Dry basin

C) Large coastal inlet

D) High mesa

Question 16

Which of the following best defines erosion?

A) Building up

B) Freezing

C) Drying

D) Wearing away

Question 17

Which of the following best defines metamorphic rock?

A) Changed-by-heat rock

B) Melted rock

C) Layered deposits

D) Sand pile

Question 18

What best defines a volcano cone?

A) River delta

B) Erupted ash hill

C) Sand dune

D) Coral reef

Question 19

What best defines an oxbow lake?

A) Crater lake

B) Salt lake

C) Curved cut-off lake

D) Long river

Question 20

What best defines pumice?

A) Dense granite

B) Soft clay

C) Sea glass

D) Floating volcanic rock

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