DEGEOL 1345 REVIEW LIST 1.doc test 1.doc

DEGEOL 1345 REVIEW LIST 1  Covers chapters (1 – 5) in the AMS Textbook TEST 1 Started: Feb 16 at 8:42pm Quiz Instructions Flag question: Question 1 Question 11 pts The water in the __________ is too salty to drink. Group of answer choices atmosphere ice sheets Great Lakes ocean ice bergs Flag question: Question 2 Question 21 pts In the atmosphere up to an altitude of about 80 km, oxygen (O2) makes up about __________ % and nitrogen (N2) comprises about _________% of the gases by volume. Group of answer choices 10. . . .60 21. . . .78 25. . . .75 15. . . .50 50. . . .50

Flag question: Question 3 Question 31 pts The principal source of water vapor in the troposphere is _________. Group of answer choices glacial ice sheets green plants lakes and ponds the ocean soil Flag question: Question 4 Question 41 pts Photosynthesis involves the following reaction: Group of answer choices carbon dioxide + water --> carbohydrate + oxygen carbohydrate + oxygen --> carbon dioxide + water carbon dioxide + oxygen --> carbohydrate + water nitrate + oxygen --> carbohydrate + carbon dioxide methane + oxygen --> carbohydrate + water Flag question: Question 5 Question 51 pts Cold ocean water is __________ warm ocean water. Group of answer choices denser than less dense than

just as dense as Flag question: Question 6 Question 61 pts Which of the following atmospheric gases is (are) essential for life on Earth? Group of answer choices water vapor argon ozone carbon dioxide a, c, and d Flag question: Question 7 Question 71 pts The ocean is ___________ a major reservoir in biogeochemical cycles operating on Earth. Group of answer choices often never occasionally Flag question: Question 8 Question 81 pts The ultimate destination of all the water in the hydrosphere is the__________. Group of answer choices atmosphere cryosphere

geosphere biosphere ocean Flag question: Question 9 Question 91 pts The difference between glacial ice and sea (pack) ice: Group of answer choices Glacial ice is frozen fresh water whereas sea ice is frozen salt water. Glacial ice forms from snow whereas sea ice forms from sea water. Sea ice lasts for years whereas glacial ice can last for thousands of years. Glacial ice forms on land whereas sea ice forms in the ocean. All of the above are correct. Flag question: Question 10 Question 101 pts The Earth system consists of the major interacting subsystems of: Group of answer choices air, ice, ocean, and humans geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere physics, biology, geology, chemistry geography, marine biology, astronomy, human ecology rain, earthquakes, and photosynthesis Flag question: Question 11

Question 111 pts The lithosphere __________. Group of answer choices consists of crust only is a rigid layer composed of both the crust and the upper portion of the mantle is a layer consisting of mantle material only is the lowest layer of the atmosphere is liquid Flag question: Question 12 Question 121 pts Coral atolls ____________. Group of answer choices were explained by Charles Darwin are caused by sinking volcanoes consist of a ring of islands surrounding a seawater lagoon consist of coral overlying volcanic rock All of the above are correct. Flag question: Question 13 Question 131 pts Which of the following are characteristic of passive continental coasts? Group of answer choices no active volcanoes no plate boundaries

no deep sea trenches relatively wide continental shelves All of the above are correct. Flag question: Question 14 Question 141 pts Explosive volcanic mountains, such as Mount St. Helens of the Cascade mountain range, occur at a(n) __________ plate boundary. Group of answer choices oceanic-oceanic oceanic-continental transform continental-continental divergent Flag question: Question 15 Question 151 pts Features of the deep ocean basins include __________. Group of answer choices coast, cliffs, beaches, and breakers marshes, estuary, lagoon, and bay sand dunes, turbidity currents, and lagoons shelf, slope, rise, and canyons flat abyssal plain, mid-ocean ridges, deep trenches, and seamounts Flag question: Question 16

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