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6. Which characteristic about the trends in Mesozoic is incorrect?
- Increase in temperature
- Increase in continents
- Decrease in sea level
- Increase in CO2
- Increase in magnetism
- Increase in organisms
7. What rock does the Lake District not contain?
- Slate Quarry 420Ma
- Skiddaw 500Ma
- Limstone 440Ma
- Borrowdale volcanics 450Ma
8. What is not a characteristic of igneous rocks?
- Chemisty
- Mineralogy
- Structure
- Texture
9. What is not a feature of engineering geology?
- Deformity
- Process
- Strength
- Boundaries
- Durability
- Shape
- Permeability
- Producers
10. Which statement is incorrect about stars?
- When they die they eject matter into the atmosphere
- They make elements
- Globular clusters are made up of young immature starts that have lots of light elements
- Centre is a temperature of 100,000'c
11. What are slow cooling igenous rocks like?
12. Who wrote Relative Stratigraphy, World Before the Deluge?
- Charles Hutton
- Louis Figuier (1800)
- Louis Aggasiz
- Charles Lyell
13. Which is not an archive of the Cenozoic period?
- Oxygen 18 (seen in hydrological cycle)
- Sedimentary deposits
- Lake Sediment
- Eccentricity
- Ocean cores
- Ice cores and the trend with oxygen 18
- Milankovic cycles
- Variations in the Earth orbit
- Obliquity (tilt of the earths axis)
- Precession of equinozes
14. Which statement is incorrect about the Urey Miller Experiment 1953?
- Created organic matter
- Beginning of life in a reducing environment
- Made an atmosphere like in early earth
- Created a source of energy like the sun
- Electric spark
15. What does not makes up relative methods of dating?
- Faunal succession (biostratigraphy)
- Radioactive decay
- Superposition (lithstratigraphy)
16. Which is not a conceptual site model?
- Pathway
- Receptor
- Input
- Source
17. Which statement about the cause of mass extinction is incorrect?
- Non bollide impacts
- Environment change in climate and sea levels
- Flooding basalts
18. Which statement is not a remediation strategy?
- Replace the source
- Remove and neutralise the source
- Divert and block the path
- Remove the target
19. What is not a pattern of metamorphic rocks?
- Striations
- Banding
- Slatey cleavage
- Schistosity
20. Which is not a period featured in the geology of University Park Campus?
- Glacial period
- Carboniferous
- Permian
- Cambrian
- Jurassic
- Triassic