10 Questions
What is the primary driver of atmospheric and hydrospheric circulation?
Energy from the sun
Which type of plate boundary is characterized by plates moving apart and the formation of new lithosphere?
Divergent boundary
What is the study of earth's materials, changes of the surface and interior of the earth, and the forces that cause those changes called?
Physical geology
What are the four compositional layers of the Earth's interior?
Crust, mantle, core, asthenosphere
What is the plastic (capable of flow) zone on which the lithosphere 'floats' called?
Asthenosphere
Who proposed the original continental drift hypothesis in the 20th century?
Alfred Wegener
What is the study of earth called?
Geology
What marks a transform boundary?
Fault zones
What concept explains the origin and distribution of volcanoes, fault zones, and mountain belts?
Plate tectonics theory
What are the primary driver of most geospheric phenomena like volcanism, magmatism, and tectonism?
Heat from the Earth's core
Test your knowledge on Chapter 1 of GLY2010 syllabus covering scientific method, accepted body of systematic descriptions, geology, and physical geology.
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