Monday, January 27, 2014

Test 1

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Self-Test Chapter 1
1. ____________ is fundamentally concerned with understanding the processes that operate at or unbecoming the surface of Earth and the materials without interrupti~ which those processes operate.
a. Economic geology
b. Physical geology
c. Historical geology
d. Environmental geology
e. Planetary knowledge
2. In the scientific method, a philosophical explanation is ____________.
a. an assumption that cannot exist either proven or refuted.
b. a seemingly fair, but yet to be proved, description of a phenomenon
c. a seemingly fair explanation that has been tested and is vehemently supported by experimental or observational prove
d. the same thing as a supposition
e. a guess that scientists attain when they cannot find enough manifest to determine the facts
3. In the philosophical method, suppose that an experimental exhibition fails to confirm a certain theory. Which of the following is at no time an appropriate step for a scientist to take?
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Bottom of Form
a. Discard the supposition.
b. Alter the experimental data to agree by the hypothesis.
c. Repeat the ~ation more carefully.
d. Formulate and standard an alternative hypothesis.
4. The isle depicted in the diagram acts like ____________.
a. an intermittent system
b. a closed regularity
c. a solar system
d. ~y open system
e. a isolated method
5. On the time scale of a human lifetime, Earth acts because ____________.
a. an intermittent system
b. a closed theory
c. a solar system
d. an open system
e. an isolated regularity
6. The ____________ is a subset of the Earth universe that comprises all of its bodies of furnish with ~ and ice, both on the external part and underground.
a. atmosphere
b. hydrosphere
c. lithosphere
d. ionosphere
e. biosphere
7. The ____________ explains in what condition new crust is formed and recycled ~ dint of. large-scale motions of Earth’s exterior and interior.
a. tectonic cycle
b. refuge cycle
c. water (hydrologic) cycle
d. nebular supposition
8. According to the planetary accretion model,...

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