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Quiz: Can You Answer These Geology 101 Questions? Quiz 18

Quiz: Can You Answer These Geology 101 Questions? Quiz 18

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A particular country had a population of 250 million in 1970 and a population growth rate of 1.75%. At this rate, what is the expected population for the year 2050?

500 million
750 million
1 billion

The most important aspect of a given population, in terms of predicting the rate of growth of that population, is

The death rate of the population.
The percentage of the population between the ages of 14 and 49.
The percentage of the population less than 14 years of age.

The advent of instruments that allowed earthquakes to be located precisely lead to the conclusion that

Earthquakes and volcanoes rarely occur in the same localities.
Earthquakes occur mostly in narrowly defined zones but volcanoes are randomly distributed about the Earth.
Earthquakes and volcanoes commonly occur in the same narrowly defined zones.

The estimated global population in 1830 was 1 billion people. In 1930, it was estimated that 2 billion people inhabited the planet. What was the average rate of population growth d

0.7%
1.0%
1.2%

The geologic principle which states that, in a series of undisturbed sedimentary rocks, the layers at the bottom are older than the layers on top, is called the

Principle of uniformitarianism.
Principle of superposition.
Principle of cross-cutting relationships.

Risk is evaluated as

The consequences of a given event occurring.
The product of the probability of an even occurring multiplied by the consequences of that event occurring.
The ratio of the probability of an event occurring divided by the consequences of that event occurring.

True or False? Natural disasters that occur most frequently also have the greatest magnitude in terms of energy and capacity to do damage.

True
False
Risk is evaluated as

The average residence time of an item of interest in a given reservoir is determined by

Dividing the capacity of the reservoir by the flux rate.
Comparing the actual size of the reservoir with the maximum size it can possibly attain.
Comparing the age of the reservoir with the length of time it will take to fill or drain it completely.

The brittle, outermost portion of Earth, composed of continental and oceanic crust and the uppermost mantle, is called the

Lithosphere
Bathysphere
Otosphere

The geological principle that processes operating on Earth today are the same as those that have been operating throughout the history of the planet is called

Fossil succession.
Average residence time.
Uniformitarianism.
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