SCIN 138 SCIN138 Week 5 Quiz (APUS)

SCIN138 Week 5 Quiz (APUS)

Exam 5 (timed & single access): Visualizing; Chapters 9 &10 (Due Week 5)

Question 1 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

Correct stress is the force acting on a surface per unit area, which may be stronger in some directions than others.

Question 2 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

A _______ is a bend or a warp in a layered rock. Correct fold

Question 3 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

The figure below illustrates what type of fault?

Question 4 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest points in a given area is called the Correct relief .

Question 5 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

Differential stress is stress that is stronger in one direction than in the other directions.

Question 6 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

Which of the following terms best describes an area of continental crust that has remained undeformed for a very long time?

Question 7 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

According to the figure below, which of the following shows high confining pressure?

Question 8 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

Which of the following terms best describes a local steepening in otherwise uniformly dipping strata?

Question 9 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

A _______ map shows the locations, kinds, and orientation of rock units.

Question 10 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

The Appalachian Mountains are a good example of anticlines and synclines.

Question 11 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

An elongated region of the crust that has been deformed by continental collision is known as a(n) _______.

Question 12 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

Tensional (or extensional) stress causes Correct normal faults.

Question 13 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

A diagram that shows the nature of underground geologic features is known as a _______.

Correct  A.geologic cross-section  

Question 14 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

The mineralogical, structural, textural, and chemical changes that occur below the area of sedimentation and diagenesis are known as _______.

Question 15 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

Regional metamorphism occurs when rocks are heated and chemically changed adjacent to an intruded body of hot magma.

Question 16 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

The banded rock in the figure below is known as _______.

Question 17 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

A very fine-grained, low-grade metamorphic rock that results from the metamorphism of shale is known as Correct slate .

Question 18 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

_______ deformation includes grinding, crushing, bending, and fracturing.

Question 19 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

Which of the following metamorphic facies are characteristic of burial metamorphism?

Question 20 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

Burma and Central America have the world's largest jade deposits.

Question 21 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

Which of the following metamorphic rocks form under high stress and low to moderate temperatures in subduction zones?

Question 22 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

_______ is the metamorphic process by which the chemical composition of the rock is changed by the addition or removal of fluids.

Question 23 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

Which of the following metamorphic facies forms under the highest temperature and pressure

Question 24 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

Lines marking the first appearance of index minerals are known as _______.

Question 25 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points

Quartzite results from metamorphosed sandstone.