[NOTE!!! - these will NOT be the exact same questions that you will receive. These are EXAMPLES ONLY from prior exams; I never reuse exact questions.
[Treat each question as if it is fill-in-the-blank first; then leftclick the blank(s) to view the multiple choice list of answer options.]
1. The continents have mostly [-?-] bedrock that usually is layered to at least some extent, and often has fossils (a majority of which are of marine organisms). [Rock Types]
2. The Cascade Mtns (WA/OR) formed near where the [-?-] [-?-] is colliding with the North American plate. [Crustal Relocations]
3. The Aleutian Islands (between Alaska's Bering Strait and the Pacific Ocean) are an incipient new mountain range, where plates are [-?-]. [Crustal Motion]
4. Subduction upwarps that have explosive eruptions of silica-rich ash clouds are most likely at [-?-]. [Volcanoes & Crustal Motion]
5. Relatively gentle lava flow eruptions usually occur where crustal plates [-?-]. [Volcanoes & Crustal Motion]
6. EXCEPT for the volcanoes that are located in situations similar to Hawaii, almost all volcanoes occur at a [-?-] along the edge of a crustal plate. [Vulcanism]
7. A very dangerous [-?-] [-?-] can sometimes be dozens of miles in diameter, but people often fail to recognize what their coarse or fine silica-rich composition signifies. [Volcanoes]
8. Monoclines result when uplift causes tilting along the sides of a [-?-] structure. [Diastrophism]
9. You are at lowest risk of earthquakes if you observe [-?-] [-?-] around you. [Earthquakes]
10. Backwearing into [-?-] slopes prevails in arid climatic environments. [Slope Morphology]
11. A stream's [-?-] accomplishes most abrasion (mechanical weathering). [Fluvial Processes]
12. All of the following features EXCEPT [-?-] can indicate which direction a glacier came from. [Glacial Processes]
QUESTIONS 13-15 REFER TO LETTERED POSITIONS ON THE MAP BELOW
13. MOST likely site (of these choices) for an earthquake [Earthquakes]
14. Location where a hot spot NOW produces, or can produce, volcanic features [Volcanoes]
15. Site of a misfit stream that occupies a valley created by glacial metwater. [Fluvial and Glacial Landforms].
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