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Foundations of Earth Science 7th Edition Lutgens Test Bank 1
Foundations of Earth Science 7th Edition Lutgens Test Bank 1
1) ________ was an aquatic reptile that lived in South America and Africa during the Permian
period.
A) Mesosaurus
B) Lystrosaurus
C) Glossopteris
D) Tyrannosaurus
Answer: A
Diff: 1
LO/Section: 5.1
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge
2) In the early part of the twentieth century, ________ argued forcefully for the idea of
continental drift.
A) Richard Wagner
B) Alfred Wegener
C) James Hutton
D) Harry Hess
Answer: B
Diff: 1
LO/Section: 5.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge
5) The ________ is an example of a modern convergent boundary where two continents meet.
A) westward movement of South America over the (subducting) Nazca plate
B) Arabian Peninsula slamming into North Africa under the Red Sea
C) northwestern movement of Baja California and a sliver of western California
D) northerly movement of India relative to Eurasia
Answer: D
Diff: 1
LO/Section: 5.8
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge
7) The temperature below which magnetic material can retain a permanent magnetization is
called the ________.
A) hot spot
B) Curie point
C) fracture zone
D) Darcy temperature
Answer: B
Diff: 1
LO/Section: 5.8
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge
8) The area of crust directly above a rising mantle plume is a(n) ________.
A) convergent plate boundary
B) Curie point
C) hot spot
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D) asthenosphere
Answer: C
Diff: 1
LO/Section: 5.8
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge
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9) Linear, magnetic patterns associated with mid-ocean ridges are configured as ________.
A) concentric circles about a rising plume of hot, mantle rocks and magma
B) normal and reversed magnetized strips roughly perpendicular to the ridge axis
C) reversed magnetizations along the rift valleys and normal magnetizations on the ridge
D) normal and reversed magnetized strips roughly parallel to the ridge
Answer: B
Diff: 1
LO/Section: 5.8
Bloom's Taxonomy: Comprehension
10) Ten million years from now, the East African rift valley system will most closely resemble
the modern ________.
A) Red Sea
B) Appalachian Mountains
C) Peru-Chile Trench
D) San Andreas Fault
Answer: A
Diff: 1
LO/Section: 5.6
Bloom's Taxonomy: Comprehension
11) Alfred Wegener included all of the following lines of evidence as supporting his "continental
drift" hypothesis except one. Which was NOT part of Wegener's evidence?
A) the geometrical fit between South America and Africa
B) late Paleozoic glacial features
C) stripes of reverse magnetism on either side of oceanic rides
D) similar fossils on widely-separated continents
Answer: C
Diff: 2
LO/Section: 5.2, 5.8
Bloom's Taxonomy: Analysis
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13) Which one of the following most accurately describes the volcanoes of the Hawaiian
Islands?
A) volcanoes associated with subduction and a convergent plate boundary
B) volcanoes fed by a long-lived hot spot below the Pacific lithospheric plate
C) volcanoes associated with a mid-Pacific oceanic ridge and spreading center
D) volcanoes associated with a mid-Pacific transform fault
Answer: B
Diff: 1
LO/Section: 5.8
Bloom's Taxonomy: Comprehension
15) Cooler, older, oceanic lithosphere sinks into the mantle at ________.
A) subduction zones along convergent plate boundaries
B) transform fault zones along divergent plate boundaries
C) rift zones along oceanic ridges
D) sites of long-lived, hot spot volcanism in the ocean basins
Answer: A
Diff: 1
LO/Section: 5.6
Bloom's Taxonomy: Comprehension
16) Imagine that you were given a ship equipped with a device that could measure how deep the
water is. You are asked to use this ship to find a subduction zone. What would you look for as
you sailed around the world's oceans?
A) an oceanic ridge
B) a mountain range
C) a continental rift
D) a deep-ocean trench
Answer: D
Diff: 2
LO/Section: 5.6
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application
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