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sample questions Multiple Choice Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ 1. What do ozone, nitrous oxide, methane, carbon dioxide, and chlorofluorocarbons have in common? a. they are essential gases for sustaining plant life b. they are gases released by volcanoes c. they are all greenhouse gases d. they are all gases found in bubbles in glacial ice e. they are all industrial refrigerants 2. Which of the following countries refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty (1997) that required reduction of greenhouse-gas production? a. China b. USA c. Russia d. Japan e. Canada 3. The dollar loss, in the USA, from natural disasters increased significantly in the 1990s. What is the most probable explanation for this? a. more large earthquakes b. increased population density c. inflation d. El Niño derived storms e. bad engineering practice 4. Most of the rocks of the earth's crust are made up of which of the following mineral groups? a. silicates b. oxides c. carbonates d. tungstates e. vanadates 5. Which property of minerals is variable and therefore the least reliable as a clue in identifying a mineral type? a. color b. cleavage c. hardness d. crystal form e. chemical composition 6. In addition to particles, what other material can be found in sedimentary rocks? a. Inorganic chemical precipitates b. fossils (e.g. shell fragments) c. biogenic chemical precipitates d. lithified plant debris e. all of the above 7. Which of the following is a type of plate boundary where new sea floor is formed? a. divergent b. convergent c. emergent d. passive e. transform ____ 8. What essential line of evidence in the 1960's helped to confirm the motion of the continents? a. the puzzle piece-like fit of the edges of continents b. fossil plants c. studies of the earth's magnetic field d. fossil animals e. glacial patterns ____ 9. What force is thought to be an important cause plate tectonic motion? a. earth tides b. earthquakes c. thermal convection currents d. shear strain e. volcanic eruptions ____ 10. Reverse, normal, and strike-slip all refer to types of ... a. earthquakes b. faults c. tectonic plates d. plays in football e. none of the foregoing sample questions Answer Section MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. ANS: ANS: ANS: ANS: ANS: ANS: ANS: ANS: ANS: ANS: C B B A A E A C C B