Chapters 1-6 Study Guide
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| What best defines a mineral and a rock? | show 🗑
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| show | Protons in the nucleus
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| What mineral is the hardest known substance in nature? | show 🗑
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| show | Feldspar
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| The ion at the center of a silicon-oxygen tetrahedron is surrounded by _____. | show 🗑
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| Which mineral is easily soluble in water at room temperature conditions? | show 🗑
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| The strong tendency of certain minerals to break along smooth, parallel planes is known as ________. | show 🗑
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| show | Silicates
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| Which of the following is NOT one of the eight most common elements in the Earth's crust? | show 🗑
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| show | False.
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| TF: Electrically neutral atoms have equal numbers of electrons and protons. | show 🗑
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| show | True.
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| TF:Diamond and quartz are both minerals composed of a single element. | show 🗑
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| TF: Nonmetallic minerals like halite and gypsum have no industrial uses. | show 🗑
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| TF: Isotopes of the same element have the same mass number. | show 🗑
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| As the rate of cooling increases, the size of the crystals that form _____ | show 🗑
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| Granite and gabbro ______ | show 🗑
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| This igneous texture is characterized by two distinctively different crystal sizes | show 🗑
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| Sedimentary rocks _______ | show 🗑
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| Detrital sediments would predominate in al of the following environments except _____ | show 🗑
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| The most abundant chemical sedimentary rock is _________ | show 🗑
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| Metamorphism may result from _________ | show 🗑
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| show | quartzite.
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| show | slate, phyllite, schist
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| TF: Bowen's reaction series predicts the sizes of the different mineral grains that grow from crystallizing magmas. | show 🗑
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| TF: Glassy igneous rocks form when magma cools too fast for mineral grains to grow. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| TF: Particle size is the primary basis for distinguishing among various detrital sedimentary rocks | show 🗑
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| TF: Slate is associated with high-grade metamorphism | show 🗑
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| TF: Metamorphism can affect only sedimentary rocks. | show 🗑
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| Clay minerals formed from gabbro or diorite bedrock illustrate which kind of weathering? | show 🗑
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| show | geological age of earth materials.
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| show | frost wedging
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| Which one of the following statements concerning mechanical weathering is NOT true? | show 🗑
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| show | residual
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| Of the following, which one would most likely be triggered by an earthquake? | show 🗑
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| Which mass wasting process has the slowest rate of movement? | show 🗑
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| The most rapid type of mass movement is a ________ | show 🗑
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| All of the following are possible indicators that creep is occurring except for ___________ | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | True
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| show | False
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| TF: Ferromagnesian minerals that crystallize at high temperatures in Bowen's reaction series are generally much less susceptible to chemical weathering than quartz. | show 🗑
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| The steepest, stable, slope angle possible in unconsolidated, granular materials like sand and gravel is called the angle of retention. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| Which one of the following statements is correct? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is NOT part of the water cycle? | show 🗑
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| If you were to examine the profile of a typical river, you would probably find that the gradient is ________ | show 🗑
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| At a bend in a river, the main erosion is ________ | show 🗑
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| show | usually consists of fine particles
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| show | An oxbow
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| show | running water
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| Which of the following is associated with areas of karst topography? | show 🗑
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| show | water rises above the top of the aquifer without any pumping.
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| TF: Alluvium refers to stream deposits, mainly sand and gravel | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| TF: Floods are the least destructive of all geologic hazards | show 🗑
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| TF: Most caves and caverns originate by solution of limestone | show 🗑
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| TF: The formation of stalactites and stalagmites occurs in the zone of saturation | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | Pleistocene epoch
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| Which one of the following is NOT true of glaciers? | show 🗑
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| show | U
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| _________ are erosional features produced by valley/alpine glaciers | show 🗑
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| show | Kettle
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| show | outwash plain
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| show | Despite infrequent rainfalls, erosional and depositional features of running water are important in desert landscapes
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| The loess deposited in many parts of the Midwest ______ | show 🗑
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| show | bedrock hills in a highly eroded desert landscape
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| show | True
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| show | False
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| TF: Eskers and kames are deposited by meltwater streams, and they are composed of stratified sand and gravel | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | True
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| show | False
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