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Wegener's supercontinent that began to break up about
200 million years ago was named
A) Gondwanaland
B) Laurasia
C) Pangaea
D) Rodinia - Answers-C
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 - Answers-D
The ________ forms the relatively cool, brittle plates of
plate tectonics.
A) asthenosphere
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B) lithosphere
C) astrosphere
D) eosphere - Answers-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 - Answers-D
New seafloor is created at ________ plate boundaries.
A) convergent
B) divergent
C) transform
D) hot spot - Answers-B
The ________ is the thinnest layer of the Earth.
A) crust
B) outer core
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C) mantle
D) inner core - Answers-A
The oceanic crust is made of mafic rock called ________
and is about ________ thick on average.
A) basalt, 7 km
B) marine sedimentary rocks, 25 km
C) basalt, 70 km
D) granite, 35-40 km - Answers-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 - Answers-A
Which sequence is in the correct order through time for
"fossil succession" assuming strata successively from:
Late Precambrian, Cambrian, Silurian, Jurassic, Tertiary
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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 -
Answers-A
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 - Answers-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
GL101 Exam Preparation Newest Actual Exam With
Complete Verified Questions And Correct Detailed
Answers (Verified Answers) |Already Graded
A+||Newest Exam!!!
Wegener's supercontinent that began to break up about
200 million years ago was named
A) Gondwanaland
B) Laurasia
C) Pangaea
D) Rodinia - Answers-C
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 - Answers-D
The ________ forms the relatively cool, brittle plates of
plate tectonics.
A) asthenosphere
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B) lithosphere
C) astrosphere
D) eosphere - Answers-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 - Answers-D
New seafloor is created at ________ plate boundaries.
A) convergent
B) divergent
C) transform
D) hot spot - Answers-B
The ________ is the thinnest layer of the Earth.
A) crust
B) outer core
,3|Page
C) mantle
D) inner core - Answers-A
The oceanic crust is made of mafic rock called ________
and is about ________ thick on average.
A) basalt, 7 km
B) marine sedimentary rocks, 25 km
C) basalt, 70 km
D) granite, 35-40 km - Answers-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 - Answers-A
Which sequence is in the correct order through time for
"fossil succession" assuming strata successively from:
Late Precambrian, Cambrian, Silurian, Jurassic, Tertiary
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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 -
Answers-A
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 - Answers-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
