GEOL 201: MIDTERM 3 STUDY GUIDE EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
The parameter defining the storage of groundwater is ____________ and the parameter
defining the movement of groundwater is ____________ .
porosity; permeability
Underground rivers' can form in a geologic setting of ____________ . Fractures are very
important to store and transmit water in ____________ aquifers.
karst limestone; crystaline rock
Stress on rocks is caused by ____________ which can then strain, or ____________ , the
rocks by bending them into folds or breaking them, causing fractures or faults.
tectonic forces acting on earth's crust; deform
P (primary) and S (secondary) waves are the two types of ____________ waves that travel
____________ Earth's crust. Love and Rayleigh waves are ____________ waves that travel
____________ Earth's crust.
body; through; surface; over
____________ are details of the rocks on the seafloor near spreading ridges that geologists
Vine and Matthews saw as proof that tectonic plates move and record the magnetism of the
iron-bearing minerals in the seafloor rocks.
marine magnetic anomalies
The movement of molten material inside the Earth is run by heat energy leading to
____________ ; as material heats up, it rises and can form a ____________ such as beneath
Yellowstone or the big island of Hawaii.
convection; hot spot
The ____________ hypothesis, first proposed by Harry Hess, involves a tandem
relationship between ____________ at mid-ocean ridge systems and ____________ at ocean
trenches to help explain how tectonic plates move.
seafloor spreading; ridge push; slab pull
The gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.
continental drift
________ theory of continental drift proposed that the continents plowed through oceanic
crust.
Wegener's
, Continental drift incorporated _____ _________ ___________ into the new concept of plate
tectonics.
sea floor spreading
As a descending plate reaches depths of about _______ km, ________ is generated in the
overlying asthenosphere.
100; magma
The portion of a fracture zone between two offset portions of a ridge crest is called a
___________ fault.
transform
An _________ _______ is a string of volcanoes parallel to the oceanic trench
island arc
Young mountain belts, with their associated ___________ intrusions, _______________,
and _____________, form at convergent boundaries.
igneous intrusions; metamorphism; fold-thrust belts
The ______ ___________ Fault is a transform fault.
San Andreas
The downward plunge of ________ lithosphere accounts for the existence of oceanic
trenches as well as their _______ heat flow.
cold; low
In plate tectonics, intense geologic activity occurs at ____.
plate boundaries
____ is the idea that continents move freely over Earth's surface, changing their positions
relative to one another.
continental drift
A _____ plate boundary is where plates are moving away from each other.
divergent
The portion of a fracture zone between two offset portions of ridge crest is called a ____.
transform fault
In this type of plate boundary the two plates can consist of ocean-ocean, ocean-continent, or
continent-continent crust.
convergent
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
The parameter defining the storage of groundwater is ____________ and the parameter
defining the movement of groundwater is ____________ .
porosity; permeability
Underground rivers' can form in a geologic setting of ____________ . Fractures are very
important to store and transmit water in ____________ aquifers.
karst limestone; crystaline rock
Stress on rocks is caused by ____________ which can then strain, or ____________ , the
rocks by bending them into folds or breaking them, causing fractures or faults.
tectonic forces acting on earth's crust; deform
P (primary) and S (secondary) waves are the two types of ____________ waves that travel
____________ Earth's crust. Love and Rayleigh waves are ____________ waves that travel
____________ Earth's crust.
body; through; surface; over
____________ are details of the rocks on the seafloor near spreading ridges that geologists
Vine and Matthews saw as proof that tectonic plates move and record the magnetism of the
iron-bearing minerals in the seafloor rocks.
marine magnetic anomalies
The movement of molten material inside the Earth is run by heat energy leading to
____________ ; as material heats up, it rises and can form a ____________ such as beneath
Yellowstone or the big island of Hawaii.
convection; hot spot
The ____________ hypothesis, first proposed by Harry Hess, involves a tandem
relationship between ____________ at mid-ocean ridge systems and ____________ at ocean
trenches to help explain how tectonic plates move.
seafloor spreading; ridge push; slab pull
The gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.
continental drift
________ theory of continental drift proposed that the continents plowed through oceanic
crust.
Wegener's
, Continental drift incorporated _____ _________ ___________ into the new concept of plate
tectonics.
sea floor spreading
As a descending plate reaches depths of about _______ km, ________ is generated in the
overlying asthenosphere.
100; magma
The portion of a fracture zone between two offset portions of a ridge crest is called a
___________ fault.
transform
An _________ _______ is a string of volcanoes parallel to the oceanic trench
island arc
Young mountain belts, with their associated ___________ intrusions, _______________,
and _____________, form at convergent boundaries.
igneous intrusions; metamorphism; fold-thrust belts
The ______ ___________ Fault is a transform fault.
San Andreas
The downward plunge of ________ lithosphere accounts for the existence of oceanic
trenches as well as their _______ heat flow.
cold; low
In plate tectonics, intense geologic activity occurs at ____.
plate boundaries
____ is the idea that continents move freely over Earth's surface, changing their positions
relative to one another.
continental drift
A _____ plate boundary is where plates are moving away from each other.
divergent
The portion of a fracture zone between two offset portions of ridge crest is called a ____.
transform fault
In this type of plate boundary the two plates can consist of ocean-ocean, ocean-continent, or
continent-continent crust.
convergent
