GEOLOGY 1010 QUIZZES WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS
What do chemical and detrital sedimentary rocks have in common?
Both involve water in their formation
Both made by erosion
Both have rounded grains
Both made by organisms
Both require hydrolysis reactions involving clay formation - Answer- Both involve water
in their formation
How does a shale differ from a mudstone?
Denser
Thinly bedded (fissile)
Different source area
Darker colored
Different minerals - Answer- Thinly bedded (fissile)
Which of the following is true about minerals? SELECT TWO
A mineral must include more than one element
Minerals are only made naturally
Minerals cannot be derived from living things
Individual minerals are composed of roughly the same elements
Every rock contains more than one mineral - Answer- Minerals are only made naturally
Individual minerals are composed of roughly the same elements
What are the two (2) most common elements in the Earth's crust?
Sulfur (S)
Carbon (C)
Silicon (Si)
Iron (Fe)
Oxygen (O) - Answer- Silicon (Si)
Oxygen (O)
What are the three main ways minerals form? SELECT THREE
Organic processes within plants
Acid reactions in rain
Crystallizing from magma
Movement of sediments
,Precipitating from water in river currents
Precipitating from water
Precipitating from air
Precipitating from water by organisms - Answer- Crystallizing from magma
Precipitating from water
Precipitating from water by organisms
Which mineral(s) are composed of a 3-D framework of silica tetrahedra? SELECT TWO
Pyroxene
Olivine
Amphibole
Mica
Quartz
Feldspar - Answer- Quartz
Feldspar
Imagine a puzzling sedimentary structure is discovered in a deposit of sedimentary
rock. What would be the best approach to understand it?
Examine the thickness of the layer
Look at the strata above and below it
Look for microfossils within the layer
Examine the minerals within the layer
Look for a similar structure in a modern environment - Answer- Look for a similar
structure in a modern environment
What story does a sedimentary rock tell you?
Types of volcanoes present
Ideas about temperatures in the past
Volume of the rivers that made them
Ideas about ancient landscapes and environments
Number and types of organisms present - Answer- Ideas about ancient landscapes and
environments
Which of the following are objective statements? SELECT THREE
The blue cupcakes taste better.
Geology is an important science.
Geology is my major.
The Earth is 4 1/2 billion years old.
I observed that it rained yesterday. - Answer- Geology is my major.
The Earth is 4 1/2 billion years old.
I observed that it rained yesterday.
What distinguishes science from pseudoscience?
In science, we just know that things are the way they are.
Concepts must be falsifiable to be considered science.
Pseudoscience uses experimentation to objectively reach conclusions.
, Science deals with mainstream ideas, pseudoscience does not. - Answer- Concepts
must be falsifiable to be considered science.
Which of the following best matches the word Theory?
An untested idea
An educated guess
An infallible truth
A well-tested idea
An idea that can be tested - Answer- A well-tested idea
In the Scientific Method, which of these steps would normally follow experimentation
and sharing of results?
Theory development
Hypothesis development
Peer review
Hypothesis creation
Observation - Answer- Peer review
What evidence was observed by Galileo that led him to conclude the Earth could not be
the center of the universe?
Orbit of Saturn
Asteroid belt
Comet return time
Craters on the moon
Moons orbiting around Jupiter - Answer- Moons orbiting around Jupiter
Which of the following is the advantage of inductive reasoning, in contrast with
deductive reasoning?
Focus on conclusions
Use of replication
The reasoning is more sound.
Focus on observation
Focus on evidence - Answer- Focus on observation
The idea that the Sun was the center of the Solar System was first proposed by
Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543 and is known as _______?
Suncentric model
Solar orbital model
Divinity centric model
Heliocentric model
Geocentric model - Answer- Heliocentric model
What simple scientific techniaque did geologists like Hutton, Steno, and Lyell use to
draw fundamental geologic conclusions?
They compared ancient rocks/fossils to modern counterparts.
They used gems and metal deposits to understand geology.
CORRECT ANSWERS
What do chemical and detrital sedimentary rocks have in common?
Both involve water in their formation
Both made by erosion
Both have rounded grains
Both made by organisms
Both require hydrolysis reactions involving clay formation - Answer- Both involve water
in their formation
How does a shale differ from a mudstone?
Denser
Thinly bedded (fissile)
Different source area
Darker colored
Different minerals - Answer- Thinly bedded (fissile)
Which of the following is true about minerals? SELECT TWO
A mineral must include more than one element
Minerals are only made naturally
Minerals cannot be derived from living things
Individual minerals are composed of roughly the same elements
Every rock contains more than one mineral - Answer- Minerals are only made naturally
Individual minerals are composed of roughly the same elements
What are the two (2) most common elements in the Earth's crust?
Sulfur (S)
Carbon (C)
Silicon (Si)
Iron (Fe)
Oxygen (O) - Answer- Silicon (Si)
Oxygen (O)
What are the three main ways minerals form? SELECT THREE
Organic processes within plants
Acid reactions in rain
Crystallizing from magma
Movement of sediments
,Precipitating from water in river currents
Precipitating from water
Precipitating from air
Precipitating from water by organisms - Answer- Crystallizing from magma
Precipitating from water
Precipitating from water by organisms
Which mineral(s) are composed of a 3-D framework of silica tetrahedra? SELECT TWO
Pyroxene
Olivine
Amphibole
Mica
Quartz
Feldspar - Answer- Quartz
Feldspar
Imagine a puzzling sedimentary structure is discovered in a deposit of sedimentary
rock. What would be the best approach to understand it?
Examine the thickness of the layer
Look at the strata above and below it
Look for microfossils within the layer
Examine the minerals within the layer
Look for a similar structure in a modern environment - Answer- Look for a similar
structure in a modern environment
What story does a sedimentary rock tell you?
Types of volcanoes present
Ideas about temperatures in the past
Volume of the rivers that made them
Ideas about ancient landscapes and environments
Number and types of organisms present - Answer- Ideas about ancient landscapes and
environments
Which of the following are objective statements? SELECT THREE
The blue cupcakes taste better.
Geology is an important science.
Geology is my major.
The Earth is 4 1/2 billion years old.
I observed that it rained yesterday. - Answer- Geology is my major.
The Earth is 4 1/2 billion years old.
I observed that it rained yesterday.
What distinguishes science from pseudoscience?
In science, we just know that things are the way they are.
Concepts must be falsifiable to be considered science.
Pseudoscience uses experimentation to objectively reach conclusions.
, Science deals with mainstream ideas, pseudoscience does not. - Answer- Concepts
must be falsifiable to be considered science.
Which of the following best matches the word Theory?
An untested idea
An educated guess
An infallible truth
A well-tested idea
An idea that can be tested - Answer- A well-tested idea
In the Scientific Method, which of these steps would normally follow experimentation
and sharing of results?
Theory development
Hypothesis development
Peer review
Hypothesis creation
Observation - Answer- Peer review
What evidence was observed by Galileo that led him to conclude the Earth could not be
the center of the universe?
Orbit of Saturn
Asteroid belt
Comet return time
Craters on the moon
Moons orbiting around Jupiter - Answer- Moons orbiting around Jupiter
Which of the following is the advantage of inductive reasoning, in contrast with
deductive reasoning?
Focus on conclusions
Use of replication
The reasoning is more sound.
Focus on observation
Focus on evidence - Answer- Focus on observation
The idea that the Sun was the center of the Solar System was first proposed by
Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543 and is known as _______?
Suncentric model
Solar orbital model
Divinity centric model
Heliocentric model
Geocentric model - Answer- Heliocentric model
What simple scientific techniaque did geologists like Hutton, Steno, and Lyell use to
draw fundamental geologic conclusions?
They compared ancient rocks/fossils to modern counterparts.
They used gems and metal deposits to understand geology.
