Author: Anonymous

You have just bought your dream home along a coastline, but you notice that the beach in front of your new house is slowly disappearing. You decide to solve this by building a groin. Winds blow predominantly from east to west, so where do you place your groin?

Earth’s geothermal gradient is the rate of temperature change incurred by ________.

At which of the following does a famous example of hot-spot volcanism occur?

Geologists call individual layers of sedimentary rocks ________, whereas several of them together are called ________.

Consult the figure below. Compared with amphibolite metamorphic facies, greenschist facies ________.

Hard water results from relatively high concentrations of dissolved ________.

The image below shows ancient dunes exposed in Zion National Park in Utah. Using the interpreted portion of the image at the left, what was the dominant wind direction that formed these sedimentary structures?

Limestone is most likely formed in which of the following environments?

The silicate mineral that is found in the greatest variety of igneous rocks of various compositions is ________.

If a geologist discovered coal in a modern-day cold, snowy location, he or she could conclude that ________.