GL101 Exam Review Questions and
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The Precambrian (Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic Eons) accounts for ________.
A) the first 88% of Earth history and the geologic time scale
B) the segment of geologic time prior to uniformitarianism taking effect
C) all of the periods after the Permian
D) the first 8% of Earth history - Correct answer-A
Which sequence is in the correct order through time for "fossil succession"
assuming strata successively from: Late Precambrian, Cambrian, Silurian, Jurassic,
Tertiary
A) multicelled organisms, hardbodied marine invertebrates, first land plants,
dinosaurs, mammals
B) flowering plants, birds, reptiles, first trees, first fishes, blue green algae
C) one-celled organisms, first fishes, first amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs
D) land plants, insects, marine plants, trilobites, humans - Correct answer-A
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,The ________ theory is the leading hypothesis that describes the formation of the
Sun, Earth, and other planets of the solar system
A) planoassemblar
B) nebular
C) astrostellar
D) solar flareup - Correct answer-B
The Earth's core was formed from ________.
A) a massive nickle iron asteroid that was the nucleus upon which Earth condensed
B) high density radioactive carbon
C) the left over nickle and iron that would not fit into the earlier formed crust and
mantle
D) molten iron and nickle that separated from silicates and sank due to its higher
density - Correct answer-D
In the early part of the 20th century, ________ argued forcefully for continental
drift.
A) Karl Wagner
B) Edwin Rommel
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,C) Alfred Wegener
D) Alfred the Great - Correct answer-C
Pangaea was ________.
A) a large, ocean basin that opened in the Triassic and closed in the Paleocene
B) a large, Precambrian shield area in Africa and South America that broke apart
late in the Proterozoic Eon
C) a huge mountain range that formed when Africa pushed northward into Europe
in Eocene time
D) a super continent that formed in the late Paleozoic and broke apart in Triassic
time - Correct answer-D
Wegener's supercontinent that began to break up about 200 million years ago was
named
A) Gondwanaland
B) Laurasia
C) Pangaea
D) Rodinia - Correct answer-C
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, According to Wegener, where was southern Africa located during the Late
Paleozoic?
A) up by the north pole
B) 30° south of the equator
C) along the equator
D) over the south pole - Correct answer-D
The ________ forms the relatively cool, brittle plates of plate tectonics.
A) asthenosphere
B) lithosphere
C) astrosphere
D) eosphere - Correct answer-B
A typical rate of lithospheric (tectonic) plate movement is ________.
A) 2 metres per year
B) 0.1 centimetres per year
C) 20 metres per year
D) 5 centimetres per year - Correct answer-D
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Answers Graded A+
The Precambrian (Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic Eons) accounts for ________.
A) the first 88% of Earth history and the geologic time scale
B) the segment of geologic time prior to uniformitarianism taking effect
C) all of the periods after the Permian
D) the first 8% of Earth history - Correct answer-A
Which sequence is in the correct order through time for "fossil succession"
assuming strata successively from: Late Precambrian, Cambrian, Silurian, Jurassic,
Tertiary
A) multicelled organisms, hardbodied marine invertebrates, first land plants,
dinosaurs, mammals
B) flowering plants, birds, reptiles, first trees, first fishes, blue green algae
C) one-celled organisms, first fishes, first amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs
D) land plants, insects, marine plants, trilobites, humans - Correct answer-A
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,The ________ theory is the leading hypothesis that describes the formation of the
Sun, Earth, and other planets of the solar system
A) planoassemblar
B) nebular
C) astrostellar
D) solar flareup - Correct answer-B
The Earth's core was formed from ________.
A) a massive nickle iron asteroid that was the nucleus upon which Earth condensed
B) high density radioactive carbon
C) the left over nickle and iron that would not fit into the earlier formed crust and
mantle
D) molten iron and nickle that separated from silicates and sank due to its higher
density - Correct answer-D
In the early part of the 20th century, ________ argued forcefully for continental
drift.
A) Karl Wagner
B) Edwin Rommel
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,C) Alfred Wegener
D) Alfred the Great - Correct answer-C
Pangaea was ________.
A) a large, ocean basin that opened in the Triassic and closed in the Paleocene
B) a large, Precambrian shield area in Africa and South America that broke apart
late in the Proterozoic Eon
C) a huge mountain range that formed when Africa pushed northward into Europe
in Eocene time
D) a super continent that formed in the late Paleozoic and broke apart in Triassic
time - Correct answer-D
Wegener's supercontinent that began to break up about 200 million years ago was
named
A) Gondwanaland
B) Laurasia
C) Pangaea
D) Rodinia - Correct answer-C
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, According to Wegener, where was southern Africa located during the Late
Paleozoic?
A) up by the north pole
B) 30° south of the equator
C) along the equator
D) over the south pole - Correct answer-D
The ________ forms the relatively cool, brittle plates of plate tectonics.
A) asthenosphere
B) lithosphere
C) astrosphere
D) eosphere - Correct answer-B
A typical rate of lithospheric (tectonic) plate movement is ________.
A) 2 metres per year
B) 0.1 centimetres per year
C) 20 metres per year
D) 5 centimetres per year - Correct answer-D
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