Geology Test 1

While the reserves of the petroleum hydrocarbons within the United States are unlimited, other geologic resources (iron, copper, tin, aluminium) are available in great abundance.

Earth's lithosphere is combined of the crust and aneosphere.

A transform plate boundary occurs when two plates converge.

Rocks brought to the Earth's surface by internal processes and worn down and eroded by surfacial processes.

The earth is about 4.56 billion years old.

Minerals are defined as a family of naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline, structures that are physically and chemically distinctive.

Graphite and diamonds are both made of silicon.

A mineral specimen with a Moh's hardness of 5 can scratch a mineral specimen with a hardness of 3.

Mica has one direction of cleavage.

Specific gravity is the ratio of a mass of substance to the mass of an equal volume of air.

The ________ and Alpine Fault in New Zealand are examples of the transform plate boundaries.

Earth's external heat engine is driven by __________.

Listed from Earth's center outward, the 3 concentric zones of the Earth are ______, _______, and _______.

The ________ collectively make the up the lithosphere.

Plate tectonics is a unifying idea that helps explain where and why there are _______ on Earth.