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Examples of Easy Multiple Choice Question for Midterm #1 These questions are meant to give you an idea of I write multiple choice questions, but is by no means the extent of the material that will be covered on the exam. Some questions may have more than one correct response.
1. Comets are primarily composed of:
a. rock
b. liquid water
c. ice
d. metallic
e. dust
2. Examples of Volatile elements or compounds include:
a. H2O
b. Iron (Fe)
c. Silica (SiO2)
d. Hydrogen (H)
e. Lithium (Li)
3. The Universe is ________ years old
a. 15 Million
b. 50 Thousand
c. 9 Billion
d. 15 Billion
e. 3.5 Billion
4. The Earth's atmosphere at present is dominantly composed of
a. Oxygen (O3)
b. Methane (CH4)
c. Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
d. Nitrogen (Ns)
e. Water Vapor (H2O)
5. Important processes that resulted in the formation of the solar system and planets
a. Condensation
b. Rotation
c. Collision
d. Reflection
6. Which of the following is not evidence of the composition of the core:
a. Presence of the Earth's magnetic field
b. Iron meteorites and Iron elemental abundance in our solar system
c. Mid-Ocean Ridge Volcanism
d. Laboratory experiments of the seismic velocities and melting temperature of Fe, and FeS at extreme pressures and temperatures.
7. Examples of Earth Materials include:
a. Rock
b. Glass
c. Sediments
d. Metal
e. Minerals
8. If we mentally align the continents to fit Wegener’s concept of Pangaea, evidence of Late Paleozoic glacial deposits ____________.
a. is more difficult to explain than in the modern continental configuration
b. is much more readily explained than in the modern continental configuration
c. makes very little sense in either the Pangaea configuration or the modern configuration
9. Marine magnetic anomalies result from sea-floor spreading in conjunction with ____________.
a. global warming
b. magnetic storms on the surface of the Sun
c. magnetic polarity reversals
d. apparent wander of the magnetic poles
10. Unlike the lithosphere, the asthenosphere ____________.
a. is able to flow over long periods of time
b. has a density similar to the core
c. varies in thickness from place to place
d. is relatively cool
11. The primary difference between lithospheric and asthenospheric mantle that gives rise to numerous divergent patterns of physical behavior, is ____________.
a. physical state (the lithosphere is solid, and the asthenosphere is liquid)
b. chemical composition (the lithosphere is mafic, and the asthenosphere is felsic)
c. temperature (the lithosphere is cooler than the asthenosphere)
d. chemical composition (the lithosphere is felsic, and the asthenosphere is mafic)
12. Deformed (bent, stretched, or cracked) lithosphere occurs ____________. `
a. randomly over the surface of Earth
b. primarily within the interiors of tectonic plates
c. primarily on the margins of tectonic plates
13. The following are types of plate boundaries
a. Divergent
b. Active
c. Transform
d. Convergent
e. Passive
14. At a subduction zone, the overriding plate ____________.
a. is always composed of continental lithosphere
b. is always composed of oceanic lithosphere
c. is always composed of either oceanic or continental lithosphere
d. is always less dense than the subducting plate
e. is always more dense than the subducting plate
15. Creation of oceanic crust at Mid-Ocean ridges occur at rates of:
a. cm/yr
b. km/yr
c. m/s
d. cm/s
Explanation / Answer
1) ice and dust
Comets are icy objects that orbits the sun from greater distance. They usually made-up of ice , dust , gases
2) hydrogen and water
Volatiles are those chemical elements that have low boiling point
3) 15 billion years old
According to big bang theory, the universe is 13.7 billion years old
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