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Question 1

Complete Erosion is the breakdown of rocks at the Earth's surface.

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Question 2

Complete The most active divergent plate boundaries are between oceanic plates and are often called mountain
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Question 3

Complete A mass movement also called Mass Wasting.

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Question 4

Complete Epoch is the smallest division of the geologic time scale. 

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Question 5

Complete The Mesozoic era is divided into three periods; Triassic, Jurrasic, and Cretaceous. 
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Question 6

Complete The pressure is a measure of the stress, the physical force, being applied to the surface of a material.
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Question 7

Complete Virtually all of the metamorphic rocks that we see on Earth are derived from magmas that formed from
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Question 8

Complete Erosion is consist of material saturated with water that moves as a fluid mass.
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Question 9

Complete Eras are subdivided into periods.

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Question 10

Complete When did the first vascular plants arise?

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a. Triassic 

b. Devonian 

c. Jurassic

d. Silurian

Question 11

Complete The period when dinosaurs diversify is ____________. 

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a. Permian

b. Cretaceous 

c. Jurassic

d. Carboniferous

Question 12

Complete The breakdown of rocks by oxygen and water, often giving iron-rich rocks a rusty color is called
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Question 13

Complete The point where the denser plate goes under the less dense plate is called a rift valley.
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Question 14

Complete When two plates are colliding, the type of boundary is called ____________.
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a. divergent

b. transform

c. convergent

d. convection

Question 15

Complete Continental drift, large-scale horizontal movements of continents relative to one another and to the
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Question 16

Complete It determines the period during which certain object was last subjected to heat. It is based on the
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a. Thermoluminescence

b. Radiometric dating

c. Dendrochronology

d. Amino acid dating

Question 17

Complete The point where the denser plate goes under the less dense plate is called _______________. 
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a. subduction zone

b. fault

c. rift valley 

d. ridges

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Question 18

Complete At what era, do humans live?

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a. Mesozoic

b. Paleozoic

c. Cenozoic

d. Precambrian

Question 19

Complete Relative time allows scientists to tell the story of Earth events but does not provide specific numeric ages,
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Question 20

Complete The eon where humans are living is _____________. 

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a. Proterozoic

b. Archean

c. Hadean

d. Phanerozoic

Question 21

Complete It works best for sedimentary rocks having layered arrangement of sediments.
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a. absolute dating

b. relative dating

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Question 22

Complete Precambrian contains large piece of the earth's geological history. 

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Question 23

Complete It determines if an object/event is younger or older than another object/event from history
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a. relative dating

b. absolute dating

Question 24

Complete Formal geologic time begins at the start of the Phanerozoic Eon (4.0 billion to 2.5 billion years ago) and
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Question 25

Complete A divergent boundary is formed when two plates move away from each other.
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Question 26

Complete The theory of continental drift is most associated with the scientist ____________.
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a. James Maxwell

b. Alfred Wegener

c. Albert Einstein

d. Ernest Rutherford

Question 27

Complete Island arcs and oceanic trenches occur when both of the plates are made of oceanic crust
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Question 28

Complete Physical structure of living beings depends on the protein content in their bodies.
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a. Dendrochronology

b. Thermoluminescence

c. radiometric dating

d. amino acid dating

Question 29

Complete A stress is any change in volume or shape.

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Question 30

Complete Weathering is the breakdown of rocks at the Earth's surface.

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Question 31

Complete In the theory of Continental Drift, Earth’s continents were once part of an enormous, single landmass
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a. Laurasia

b. Pangaea

c. Gondwana

d. continental landmass

Question 32

Complete It determines the age of a rock/object using radiometric techniques.

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a. absolute dating

b. relative dating

Question 33

Complete A continent is composed of relatively light blocks that float high on the mantle, like gigantic, slow-
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Question 34

Complete Temperature is a major factor in the formation of magma.

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Question 35

Complete Current within the mantle have broken the crust into blocks called _______________. 
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a. continents

b. plates

c. boundaries

d.  crust

Question 36

Complete Hadean eon is the earliest in the geologic time scale. 

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Question 37

Complete The most abundant element in magma is oxygen.

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Question 38

Complete Eras are the second to the largest intervals of geologic time and are hundreds of millions of years in
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Question 39

Complete The period when the first primates arise is ______________. 

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a. Mesozoic

b. Permian

c. Paleozoic 

d. Cretaceous 

Question 40

Complete Physical weathering is caused by the rainwater reacting with the mineral grains in rocks to form minerals
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Question 41

Complete When did the first mammal live?

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a. Carboniferous 

b. Triassic

c. Tertiary

d. Ordovician

Question 42

Complete Hydrolysis is the breakdown of rocks by acidic water to produce clay and soluble salts.
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Question 43

Complete Seafloor spreading and other tectonic activity processes are the results of convection current in the
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Question 44

Complete It works best for igneous and metamorphic rocks.

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a. absolute dating

b. relative dating

Question 45

Complete Seafloor spreading occurs along mid-ocean ridges—large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor.
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Question 46

Complete This technique solely depends on the traces of radioactive isotopes found in fossils.
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a. Dendrochronology

b. amino acid dating

c.  Thermoluminescence

d. radiometric dating

Question 47

Complete The geologic time scale is divided into four segments.

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Question 48

Complete When two plates move lateral to one another, this boundary is called ____________. 
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a. concurrent

b. transform

c. divergent 

d. convergent

Question 49

Complete It is based on the concept that the lowest layer is the oldest and the topmost layer is the youngest.
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a. Fluorine dating

b. stratigraphy 

c. Biostratigraphy

d.  Cross dating

Question 50

Complete It is the oldest in the three periods.

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a. Cenozoic

b. Mesozoic

c. Paleozoic

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