Exam 1: An Introduction to Geology and Plate Tectonics

What is the age of most of the continental crust, especially the exposed shield areas in continental interiors?

Time scales and intervals of importance to geologic processes__________ .

In the rock cycle, the series of processes that transform unconsolidated sediment into sedimentary rocks is termed_________ .

Today, of all the continents,____________ is closest to the same geographic position it occupied during the Late Paleozoic.

In the rock cycle, the transported natural chemical and mechanical residues of weathering are termed___________ .

Canada's highest mountain is _________.

Rocks that have been recrystallized under stress, or changing conditions of heat and pressure are termed ____________.

Early during Earth's history what two things contributed heat that led to the internal melting and formation of the core?

Tethys was _________.

Which one of the following statements is not correct?

Fossils of armour headed fishes and trilobites would be found in marine sedimentary rocks of_____

The inference that the Earth had been created in 4004 B.C. was attributed to James Ussher who_______