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PHSC 210 Quiz 3 – Question and Answers
- Which type of earthquake wave feels like being in a boat on the ocean?
- All of the following happened during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens except
- If you drive through a road cut and see sedimentary layers folded in the shape of an arch, it would be called a(n)
- Based on the outside reading, scientists from the RATE team discovered that the loss of helium from small crystals (zircons) can be used as a “clock”. Ages of granites from this method were:
- What type of fossil is formed by the preservation of skeletal parts of the organism?
- Catastrophists held to all of the following ideas EXCEPT:
- The determination of geological events in terms of order and sequences is called ____________ dating.
- Which rule of geology states that when you find a rock (R) with pieces of another rock (r) in it, rock (R) is younger than rock(r)?
- 14C has a half-life of ____________ years.
- Choose the composite volcano
- Which one of the earth’s layers is predominantly liquid?
- An instrument used to measure and record the magnitude of an earthquake is called a(n)
- Tight folding in sedimentary rocks
- Which form of radioactive decay involves a nucleus ejecting two protons and two neutrons from its nucleus?
- Much of Yellowstone National Park is located in a(n)
- Deep canyons were cut overnight during some of the eruptive events at Mount St. Helens.
- The hanging wall moves downward on a normal fault.
- A young-Earth creation perspective is a relatively recent (1800s) view of Scripture.
- The Mercalli scale is useful to describe the intensity of an earthquake in a populated area.
