Exam 1: An Introduction to Geology and Plate Tectonics

An extensive, Late Pleistocene glaciation covered all of southern India, southern Africa, and southeastern South America with a continental ice cap just prior to the break up of Pangaea.

Who was Canada's first director of its Geological Survey?

What paleoclimatic evidence disproved worldwide cooling as a cause for the "tropical glaciations" between 300 and 220 million years ago?

The currently accepted age of Earth is approximately 4.6 million years.

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.

________ rocks form by crystallization and consolidation of molten magma.

Use complete sentences, correct spelling, and the information presented in Chapter 1 to answer the question(s)below. -Given our current knowledge of plate tectonics, is Hapgood's "Earth crust displacement" theory of large lateral crustal movements over 5000 years valid? Explain.

The process by which magmas cool and solidify to rock is termed ________.

Use complete sentences, correct spelling, and the information presented in Chapter 1 to answer the question(s)below. -Considering the discussion of the Nebular theory regarding the origin of our solar system, what is the likelihood that plate tectonics is a viable model for processes operating on other planets? Are certain planets more likely than others to exhibit plate movements and why might plate tectonics not currently be active on those planets?

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.

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.

The statement "the present is the key to the past," describes what basic geologic concept or doctrine?

In the spaces provided, describe what happens during the rock cycle.

Today, of all the continents, ________ is closest to the same geographic position it occupied during the Late Paleozoic.

What was Alfred Wegener's academic training and main area of professional practice?

List the three types of plate boundaries.

Time scales and intervals of importance to geologic processes ________.

The inference that the Earth had been created in 4004 B.C.E.was attributed to James Ussher who ________.

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.

Observing Earth from beyond the moon's orbit, the most apparent features are ________.