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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?

  • Coarse
  • Fine
  • Glossy

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