Geology 100 Self-Test 1

Answer the questions below and then click "submit" to send your answers.

  1. Coastline College is in Fountain Valley, California. What tectonic plate is the college presently on? Where is the nearest plate boundary and what kind of boundary is it?

    2. Your answer:

  2. What are the three major types of rocks?

    3. Your answer:

  3. Plate tectonics is the result of Earth’s internal heat engine, powered by (choose all that apply)

    4. Your answer:
    the Sun
    gravity
    heat flowing from the Earth’s interior outward

  4. The division of geology concerned with Earth materials, changes in the surface and interior of the Earth, and the dynamic forces that cause those changes is

    5. Your answer:
    physical geology
    historical geology
    geophysics
    paleontology

  5. The largest zone of the Earth’s interior by volume is the

    6. Your answer:
    crust
    mantle
    outer core
    inner core

  6. Oceanic and continental crust differ in

    7. Your answer:
    composition
    density
    thickness
    all of the above

  7. Which is a type of plate boundary?

    8. Your answer:
    divergent
    convergent
    transform
    all of the above

  8. The lithosphere is

    9. Your answer:
    the same as the crust
    the layer beneath the crust
    the crust and the uppermost mantle
    only part of the mantle

  9. Erosion is a result of Earth’s external heat engine, powered by (choose all that apply)

    10. Your answer:
    the Sun
    gravity
    the heat flowing from the Earth’s interior outward
    the sun and gravity

  10. According to the plate tectonics theory where are crustal rocks created? Why doesn’t Earth keep getting larger is rock is continually created?

    11. Your answer: