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This Is Probably The Hardest Geology Test! 24

This Is Probably The Hardest Geology Test!

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Which ore minerals are commonly found in ancient sedimentary deposits that are 2 billion years old?

iron oxides
Copper sulfides
Copper oxides

Which mineral resources are considered renewable?

Iron and aluminum ores
Base metals only
No mineral resources are renewable

The United States has active mines within its boundaries that are sufficient to maintain a steady supply of all strategically important metals.

True
False

As suggested by the name "earthquake" the release of seismic energy as waves is unique to our planet and has not been found to occur in any other body of our solar system.

True
False

If, during an earthquake, a hanging wall slides upward relative to a footwall, the fault is termed if the fault is steep (closer to vertical than horizontal).

Reverse
Normal
Abnormal

An earthquake occurs with an epicenter in the town of New Madrid, Missouri, in the interior of the North American Plate. Where might the hypocenter of this earthquake plausibl

20 km beneath New Madrid
20 km south of New Madrid
200 km beneath New Madrid

Earthquake waves which pass through the interior of Earth are termed

Interior waves
R-waves
Body waves

Surface waves

Produce most of the damage to buildings during earthquakes
Travel more rapidly than body waves
Are the first waves initially produced in an earthquake

Earthquakes that occur in a band called a can be used to track the motion of subducted oceanic lithosphere.

Wadati Benioff zone
Trench
Wegener belt

Long-term prediction of earthquake behavior

Works on the principle that zones of past seismicity will be active in the future
Includes the notion of seismic gaps-places where an earthquake is "overdue"
All of the above
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