45 A conservative plate boundary. A) convergent B) divergent C) subducting D) tr
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45 A conservative plate boundary. A) convergent B) divergent C) subducting D) transform 46 . About 97 % percent of Earth's H2O. A) glacial water B) salt water C) fresh water D) cloud water 47. Terranes in present North America actually formed in the tropical Pacific. A) erotic B) erosional C) erratic D) platonic E) exotic 48. Mass movement on a curved failure surface. A) earth flow B) rock slide C) slump 49. Small crests and troughs form on sand surfaces exposed to the wind. A) Ripples B) Rips C) Dunes D) Trunks 50. A tectonic regime that is being sheared. A) compressional B) extensional C) reversible D) strike-slip 51. The unsaturated zone is also known by this name. A) phreatic B) vadose C) saturated D) artesian E) negated 52. The exposed part of the North American craton. A) Florida B) Yellowstone C) Death Valley D) Missouri E) Canadian shield 53. Rapid downslope movement of snow, ice, and debris. A) earth flow B) mudflow C) avalanche 54 A geological landform consisting of column of rock in the sea near a coast. A) Stack B) Arch C) Cave D) Pediment 55. The Alps, Japan, Seattle, Portland, Peru Coast, Aleutions etc. A) divergent boundaries B) transforms C) ridges D) convergent boundarie 56. A water well in which water rises upward from the aquifer without pumping. A) flooding B) artesian C) aquiferous D) wateriferous 57 A type of fault as a result of compression. A) anticlinal B) synclinal C) normal D) abnormal E) reverse 58 Stream pattern over jointed rocks. A) dendritic B) trellis C) rectangular D) inverted 59. Example of a montane desert. A) Mongolian Plateau B) Columbia Plateau C) Antarctica D) Sahara 60 An anticline A) downfold B) reverse fold C) side fold D) upfoldExplanation / Answer
45. D transform
conservative margins are also called as transform faults.
46.B - salt water
97% of the earth's water resides in the oceans
47. E -exotic
a terrane is a fragment of crustal material formed on or broken off from one tectonic plate and accreted to crust lying on another plate, the crustal block preserves its own distinctive geology and hence the term exotic terrane
48. C -slump
slump is a form of mass wasting that occurs when a coherent mass of losely consolidated materials or rock layers move a short distance down a slope
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