LATEST VERIFIED UPDATE: ESS 101 A+ QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.
Which of the following planetary observations is incorrect?
Planet's orbits are randomly aligned around the sun
Why do terestrial plantes have so little hydrogen in their atmosphere?
Hydrogen was lost to space due to the heat from the closeness to the sun.
What is not true about Van Der Waal Bonds?
Larger Molecules have stronger Van Der Waal forces than smaller ones
Why did the earth heat up then rapidly cool during differentiation?
Earth at first lost heat to conduction, it then lost heat by convection which cooled the
earth faster
True Statements about seismic waves:
Sesimic waves refract due to different density compositional zones, Seismic waves
speed up in increasing density, S Waves are absorbed by liquid, P Waves move
through all phases of matter.
What are the Mechanisms that drive subduction of the ocean lithosphere?
Ridge Push & Slab Pull
What is not a characteristic of metal?
All metals are anions or negatively charged ions
What Rock type would you find on the columba plateau?
Basalt
What Rock type would you find on the Ural Mountains?
Granite
What Rock type would you find on Mt. Pinatubo in the phillipines?
Andesite
What type of plate boundary is represented by the appalachian Mountains?
Convergent Margin (Ocean-Continental Subduction)
What are the compositional zones of earth in their respective density?
Continental Crust, Ocean Crust, Mantle, Outter Core, inner core
The cause of Volcanism observed in the cascades is similar to that of...
, The Phillipines
Australia's unique animals were formed because...
It has been a continent isolated tectonically for a very long time
The Olympic and Coast Mountains are composed of...
Andesite formed from a partial melt of the basaltic oceanic rust
The spreading ridge, which reprsents the plate boundary between the Juan de
Fuca and Pacific Plates will eventually be subducted under the north american
plates because...
Convergence rate along the subduction zone is greater than the rate of production of
new ocean crust.
Divergent margins typically originate under continents because...
Insulating properties of the thick contitnental lithosphere retainmore heat than the ocean
lithosphere
What evidence to geologists have that the earths core is liquid?
Seismic Wave tests and the presence of a magnetic field
Magnetic Minerals that crystalize in a lava flow and erupt near the equator today
will...
Be oriented parallel to the surface of the lava flow and will have a normal polarity
towards magnetic north.
How are minerals produced on earth?
They can come from aqueous solutions and can crstalize from magnetic melt.
What are the two most common elements comprising the ocean crust?
Iron and Magnesium
Which of the following answers is not correct regarding metallic Bonds in
properties of metal?
Strength doesn't depend on atomic radius and the type of crystal lattice
What sientific observations indicate that the sun and the planets formed from a
rotating disk shaped nebular dust cloud.
The plantes all revolve in a counter clockwise direction around the sun, most planets
rotate counter clockwise, and most planeyts are alignd on the suns equitorial plane.
What minerla is vital to proper cell funtion in human beings?
ANSWERS.
Which of the following planetary observations is incorrect?
Planet's orbits are randomly aligned around the sun
Why do terestrial plantes have so little hydrogen in their atmosphere?
Hydrogen was lost to space due to the heat from the closeness to the sun.
What is not true about Van Der Waal Bonds?
Larger Molecules have stronger Van Der Waal forces than smaller ones
Why did the earth heat up then rapidly cool during differentiation?
Earth at first lost heat to conduction, it then lost heat by convection which cooled the
earth faster
True Statements about seismic waves:
Sesimic waves refract due to different density compositional zones, Seismic waves
speed up in increasing density, S Waves are absorbed by liquid, P Waves move
through all phases of matter.
What are the Mechanisms that drive subduction of the ocean lithosphere?
Ridge Push & Slab Pull
What is not a characteristic of metal?
All metals are anions or negatively charged ions
What Rock type would you find on the columba plateau?
Basalt
What Rock type would you find on the Ural Mountains?
Granite
What Rock type would you find on Mt. Pinatubo in the phillipines?
Andesite
What type of plate boundary is represented by the appalachian Mountains?
Convergent Margin (Ocean-Continental Subduction)
What are the compositional zones of earth in their respective density?
Continental Crust, Ocean Crust, Mantle, Outter Core, inner core
The cause of Volcanism observed in the cascades is similar to that of...
, The Phillipines
Australia's unique animals were formed because...
It has been a continent isolated tectonically for a very long time
The Olympic and Coast Mountains are composed of...
Andesite formed from a partial melt of the basaltic oceanic rust
The spreading ridge, which reprsents the plate boundary between the Juan de
Fuca and Pacific Plates will eventually be subducted under the north american
plates because...
Convergence rate along the subduction zone is greater than the rate of production of
new ocean crust.
Divergent margins typically originate under continents because...
Insulating properties of the thick contitnental lithosphere retainmore heat than the ocean
lithosphere
What evidence to geologists have that the earths core is liquid?
Seismic Wave tests and the presence of a magnetic field
Magnetic Minerals that crystalize in a lava flow and erupt near the equator today
will...
Be oriented parallel to the surface of the lava flow and will have a normal polarity
towards magnetic north.
How are minerals produced on earth?
They can come from aqueous solutions and can crstalize from magnetic melt.
What are the two most common elements comprising the ocean crust?
Iron and Magnesium
Which of the following answers is not correct regarding metallic Bonds in
properties of metal?
Strength doesn't depend on atomic radius and the type of crystal lattice
What sientific observations indicate that the sun and the planets formed from a
rotating disk shaped nebular dust cloud.
The plantes all revolve in a counter clockwise direction around the sun, most planets
rotate counter clockwise, and most planeyts are alignd on the suns equitorial plane.
What minerla is vital to proper cell funtion in human beings?
