Exam 1: An Introduction to Geology and Plate Tectonics

Who discovered transform plate boundaries?

Examine the words and/or phrases for each question below and determine the relationship among the majority of words/phrases. -Choose the option that does not fit the pattern.

________ includes the study of how rocks and minerals form and change according to physical, chemical, and biologic processes which affect everything from Earth's internal structures and tectonic plates to landscape evolution and crystal forms.

In sedimentary rocks, lithification includes ________.

The thin, outer layer of Earth, from 7 to over 35 km in thickness, is called the ________.

Sir William Edmond Logan was appointed the first Director of The Geological Survey of Canada in 1842 and is noted for his observations and maps of ________.

Where oceanic and continental plates converge, the denser, oceanic plate sinks beneath the continental plate.

The lithosphere, asthenosphere, and mesosphere are all layers of Earth defined by their composition.

Transform faults only cut across oceanic lithosphere where ridge systems are offset.

The Second World War caused a steep decline in the post-war rate of world population growth.

What is the average density of continental crust?

The San Andreas fault in California is a good example of a ________ plate boundary.

That fossil organisms succeed one another in an orderly and definite sequence is ________.

List the three, basic categories of rocks as defined in the rock cycle.

Molten silicate material that forms at appropriate conditions of temperature and pressure for rocks to melt within the earth is called ________.

In the early part of the 20th century, ________ argued forcefully for continental drift.

What type of rock comprises most of the exposed surface of Earth (roughly 75%)?

The diameter and surface area of the Earth gradually increase as new seafloor is produced by seafloor spreading.

The asthenosphere is actually a part of the ________ of the Earth.

According to Wegener, the Late Paleozoic climate favoured by the Glossopteris ferns was sub-tropical.