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1Name____________________________ Final Exam Fall 2009 Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Foliated metamorphic rocks possess _____. a. leafy plant fossils (ancient foliage) b. a homogenous texture resulting from randomly oriented grains c. a planar fabric consisting of mineral grains in preferred orientations or preferred patterns of association (banding) d. minerals precipitated directly from sea water ____ 2. At a convergent plate boundary, two opposed plates _____. a. move toward one another b. move away from one another c. slide past one another ____ 3. Harry Hess not only proposed the idea of sea-floor spreading but also documented overwhelming evidence to support it. a. true b. false ____ 4. Mid-ocean ridges are _____. a. convergent plate boundaries b. divergent plate boundaries c. transform plate boundaries ____ 5. There are a number of unexpected negative side effects associated with Tsunamis such as increased disease rates. a. True b. False ____ 6. James Hutton, the “father of geology,” put forth the principle of _____. a. superposition b. original continuity c. original horizontality d. uniformitarianism ____ 7. April 18, 1906 was the great San Francisco quake where much of the damage to the city was done by fires and much of the damage incurred by the Chinese was done by people. a. true b. false ____ 8. Large, thick, non-volcanic mountain belts, like the Himalayas are features associated with _____ plate boundaries. a. convergent b. divergent c. transform ____ 9. Unlike the lithosphere, the asthenosphere _____. a. is able to flow over long periods of time b. has a density similar to the core c. varies in thickness from place to place d. is relatively cool 2____ 10. As compared to the asthenosphere, the lithosphere is _____. a. cooler and more able to flow b. hotter and more able to flow c. cooler and less able to flow d. hotter and less able to flow Use the diagram below to answer t