1. What is the age of the earth? (1 point) A. 3 billion years old C. 4.5 billion

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1. What is the age of the earth? (1 point) A. 3 billion years old C. 4.5 billion years old B. 4.5 million years old 10 billion years old 2. An intrusive igneous rock is formed from: (1 point) A. Lava that cools rapidly on the earth's surface other rocks that are transformed by heat,pressure, or chemical reactions beneath the earth's surface Magma that cools slowly beneath the earth's surface D. Sediments that have accumulated under water in horizontal beds 3. Which rock type is formed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions within the earth's crust acting on the other two major types of rocks? Rech (2 points) A. What is the theory proposed by Alfred Wegener that explains the movement of continents: the 2 points 5. What type of plate boundary creates mountain ridges and oceanictrenches? (1 point) c. Transformed boundary A. Convergent boundary B. Divergent boundary D. Collision boundary 6. What type of plate boundary creates mid-ocean ridges? (1 point) A. Convergent boundary B. Divergent boundary C. Transformed boundary D. Collision boundary 7. What type of fault is illustrated in this diagram? point) A. Reverse fault B. Strike-slip fault C. Normal fault D. Thrust fault 8. The breakup of rock into smaller fragments of the same material is called: (1point) C. Chemical weathering A. Diastrophism D, Physical weathering B. Carbonation 9. In warm and humid climates, what type of weathering is most prevalent? (1 point) C, freeze thaw cycles A. Physical weathering D. Salt crystallization B. Chemical weathering

Explanation / Answer

1. (C) 4.5 Billion years old

2. (C) Magma that cools slowly beneath the Earth's surface.

3. Metamorphic Rocks

4. Continental Drift Theory

5. (A) Convergent Boundary

6. (B) Divergent Boundary

7. (C) Normal Fault

8. (D) Physical weathering

9. (B) Chemical weathering

10. (D) Alluvial Fans

11. (C) Glaciation

12. (A) Moraine, also (D) Cirque and (C) Horn

13. (A) Firewood

14. Ore deposit

15. (D) 9%

16. (A) Petroleum/Oil

17. (Don't have a sure answer, sorry)

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