Geology Lab Final (UGA) Exam With
100% Correct Answers
What is the name for the landmass formed when all of the continents were fitted together? -
correct answers ✔✔Pangea
The lithosphere is comprised of the Earth's crust and brittle uppermost mantle buoys on the
asthenosphere, which is mantle with a ductile behavior. - correct answers ✔✔True
What is the current hypothesis (as described in your manual, but is currently accepted as a
theory) that explains the earth's formation, shifting, and destruction of it's outermost physical
layer? - correct answers ✔✔Plate Tectonics
A normal fault is when the hanging wall goes up, a strike-slip fault is when the hanging wall goes
down, and a reverse fault is when the block moves laterally. - correct answers ✔✔False
Which is a type of plate boundary? - correct answers ✔✔Convergent, Transform, Divergent
When scientists are imaging the interior of the earth with seismic waves, they associate slow
moving waves with ___________ rocks and fast moving waves with _____________ rocks -
correct answers ✔✔warm and less dense/cold and more dense
What are the factors that determine if a rock melts or not? - correct answers ✔✔Temperature &
Pressure
Experimental geologists can take a rock type with certain mineralogy and put it under different
heat and pressure conditions to create a P-T diagram. Which is not a possibility that they can get
in the different experiments? - correct answers ✔✔The rock will evaporate
, Plate tectonics is responsible for earthquakes and volcanism. Both processes pose hazards
humans have to cope with. What characterizes the early stages of a volcanic eruption? - correct
answers ✔✔abundant gas emissions
Which of the following is used by geologists to determine the relative ages in a rock sequence? -
correct answers ✔✔Stratigraphy, cross-cutting relationships, and fossils
Activity 8.4, Fig 8.11 pg 183, Busch, A 1. Relative age
What is the relative age of the sedimentary rocks in this exposure related to the sill? - correct
answers ✔✔The sedimentary rocks are older than the sill.
Activity 8.4, Fig 8.11 pg 183, Busch, A 2. Absolute age
What is the absolute age of the sill? - correct answers ✔✔10.695 million years old
Activity 8.4, Fig 8.11 pg 183, Busch, A 3. Displacement
Approximately how much displacement has occurred along the fault? Select the value that most
approximates your measurement. (A fault is a planar surface of rupture along which one block
has moved relative to the other. In this figure, the left side has gone up relative to the right
one). - correct answers ✔✔2m
Draw a line on the image on page 361 as indicated by section A1 of this activity. What is the
general direction of the San Andreas Fault. (The N direction is marked on the upper right
corner).
Activity 16.4. Busch. A 1. Direction of the SA Fault - correct answers ✔✔NW - SE
100% Correct Answers
What is the name for the landmass formed when all of the continents were fitted together? -
correct answers ✔✔Pangea
The lithosphere is comprised of the Earth's crust and brittle uppermost mantle buoys on the
asthenosphere, which is mantle with a ductile behavior. - correct answers ✔✔True
What is the current hypothesis (as described in your manual, but is currently accepted as a
theory) that explains the earth's formation, shifting, and destruction of it's outermost physical
layer? - correct answers ✔✔Plate Tectonics
A normal fault is when the hanging wall goes up, a strike-slip fault is when the hanging wall goes
down, and a reverse fault is when the block moves laterally. - correct answers ✔✔False
Which is a type of plate boundary? - correct answers ✔✔Convergent, Transform, Divergent
When scientists are imaging the interior of the earth with seismic waves, they associate slow
moving waves with ___________ rocks and fast moving waves with _____________ rocks -
correct answers ✔✔warm and less dense/cold and more dense
What are the factors that determine if a rock melts or not? - correct answers ✔✔Temperature &
Pressure
Experimental geologists can take a rock type with certain mineralogy and put it under different
heat and pressure conditions to create a P-T diagram. Which is not a possibility that they can get
in the different experiments? - correct answers ✔✔The rock will evaporate
, Plate tectonics is responsible for earthquakes and volcanism. Both processes pose hazards
humans have to cope with. What characterizes the early stages of a volcanic eruption? - correct
answers ✔✔abundant gas emissions
Which of the following is used by geologists to determine the relative ages in a rock sequence? -
correct answers ✔✔Stratigraphy, cross-cutting relationships, and fossils
Activity 8.4, Fig 8.11 pg 183, Busch, A 1. Relative age
What is the relative age of the sedimentary rocks in this exposure related to the sill? - correct
answers ✔✔The sedimentary rocks are older than the sill.
Activity 8.4, Fig 8.11 pg 183, Busch, A 2. Absolute age
What is the absolute age of the sill? - correct answers ✔✔10.695 million years old
Activity 8.4, Fig 8.11 pg 183, Busch, A 3. Displacement
Approximately how much displacement has occurred along the fault? Select the value that most
approximates your measurement. (A fault is a planar surface of rupture along which one block
has moved relative to the other. In this figure, the left side has gone up relative to the right
one). - correct answers ✔✔2m
Draw a line on the image on page 361 as indicated by section A1 of this activity. What is the
general direction of the San Andreas Fault. (The N direction is marked on the upper right
corner).
Activity 16.4. Busch. A 1. Direction of the SA Fault - correct answers ✔✔NW - SE
