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B.A SECOND SEMESTER INTERIM ASSESSMENT 2023/2024 ACADEMIC YEAR

DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
GEOD202/GEOG 212: GEOMORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS (3
credits)
TIME ALLOWED: FOURTY-FIVE (45) MUNITES

INSTRUCTIONS:
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS (QUESTIONS 1 TO 50)
CIRCLE THE BEST P·OSSIBLE ANSWER ONLY
1. Identify the landform that was created in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia between September and
October 2005 following some tectonic activities.
a. Sill
b. Dyke
c. Lacolith
d. Phacolith
e. Lopolith
2. Which of these observations on planet Mars are signs of the presence of water?
a. Aeolian activity
b. Weathering
c. Mass wasting
d. Fluvial activity
e. V olcanic eruptions
3. Which of the following is not a tectonic landform?
a. Fault scarp
b. Crater
c. Volcanic plug
d. Recumbent fold
e. V olcanic cone
4. Which continent was the core of Pangaea?
a. Asia
b. America
c. Africa
d. Europe
e. Australia
5. What is the dominant rock type produced in divergent plate boundary zones?
a. Basalt

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b. Granite
c. Gabro
d. Obsidian
e. Rhyolite
6. Unconfrrmed terranes are also known as?
a. Exotic
b. Native
c. Suspect
d. Displaced
e. Allochthonous
7. Terranes associated with parent continental margins are called?
a. Exotic
b. Native
c. Suspect
d. Displaced
e. Allochthonous
8. Faults of recent origin are described as?
a. Passive
b. Normal
c. Strike-slip
d. Reverse
e. Active
9. The slope that is formed along the upthrown block overlooking a down- thrown block is
referred to as?
a. Horst
b. Faults scarp
c. Rift valley
d. Faultline
e. Fault escarpment
10. Which kind of fluvial landform is most likely to be produced if an overthrust faulting
occurs along the course of a river?
a. Rapids
b. Plunging pool
c. Waterfall
d. Meander
e. Oxbow lake
11. A ditch bounded by a major fault on one side is referred to as?
a. Half-graben
b. Rift valley
c. Horst
d. Trough
e. Syncline
12. Ridges whose crests are displaced on either side of the fault line by strike-slip fault are
known as?
a. Shutter ridges
b. Sag ponds

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c. Linear ridges
d. Trough
e. Syncline
13. Long and shallow depressions resulting from tensional stresses of strike-slip faults
creates which of these landforms?
a. Shutter ridges
b. Sag ponds
c. Linear ridges
d. Trough
e. Syncline
14. The maximum angle between the bed and the horizontal displacement of rocks is known
as?
a. Fault
b. Strike
c. Dip
d. Faults scarp
e. Rift valley
15. When molten materials force themselves into bedding planes of rocks they are described
as?
a. Active
b. Discordant
c. Passive
d. Dyke
e. Laccolith
16. Batholiths are also referred to as:
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a. Sill
b. Concordant
c. Bosses
d. Lopolith
e. Laccolith
17. Which of the following is best described as a plutonic landform
a. Sill
b. Batholith
c. Phacolith
d. Lopolith
e. Laccolith
18. Which of the following intrusions occur in sedimentary formations?
a. Sill
b. Dyke
c. Phacolith
d. Lopolith
e. Laccolith
19. Laccoliths that have been faulted are also known as?

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a. Stocks
b. Dyke
c. Phacolith
d. Lopolith
e. Bysmaliths
20. Volcanic cones consisting of cones, domes and craters are called?
a. Stratovolcanoes
h. Compound volcanoes
c. Shield volcanoes
d. Composite volcanoes
e. Cinder volcanoes
21. Earthquakes occur with__ faulting
a. Normal
h. Reverse
c. Thrust
d. Strike-slip
e. All these above

Use Fig. 1 to answer questions 22 and 23.

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22. Point A, where slip initiated during the earthquake is called the?
a. Dip
h. Epicenter
c. Focus
d. Scarp
e. Seismic
23. Point B is called of the earthquake?
a. Dip
b. Epicenter
c. Focus
d. Scarp
e. Seismic
24. Magma with a high silica content tends to be?

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a. Very hot
b. Very smelly
c. Very viscous
d. Rich in mineralogy
e. Very fluid
25. A typical example of a shield volcano is?
a. Mt. St. Helens
b. Mt. Ranier
c. Mt. Pinatubo
d. Kilauea and Mauna Loa
e. Mt. Fuji
26. What do we call a fault in which the hanging wall moves up along the dip with respect to
the footwall as shown in Figure 2?

a. A normal fault
b. A strike-slip fault
c. A dip fault
d. A reverse fault
e. An anticlinal fault
27. What do we call a fold in which the rock layers are folded upward, with the limbs sloping
up to the axis of the fold as shown in Figure 3?

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a. A thrust fold
b. A syncline
c. A recumbent fold
d. An anticline
e. A reverse fold
28. The two sides of a fold are called its ?
a. Anticlines
h. Synclines
c. Limbs
d. Axial planes
e. Overfold
29. What type of forces dominate at divergent plate margins?
a. tensional forces
b. shearing forces
c. compressive forces
d. lateral forces
e. none of these
30. What type of forces dominate at convergent plate margins?
a. tensional forces
b. shearing forces
c. compressive forces
d. lateral forces
e. none of the above
31. Which of these is a major crustal plate?
a. Antarctic
b. Caribbean
c. Arabian
d. Nazca
e. Philippine

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Use Figure 4 to answer questions 32 and 33.

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32. Identify the feature labelled 8 in Figure 4?

a. Crust
b. Mantle
c. Lithosphere
d. Asthenosphere
e. Ocean
33. What feature is labelled 2 in Figure 4?
a. Crust
b. Mantle
c. Lithosphere
d. Asthenosphere
e. Ocean

Use Figure 5 to answer questions 34, 35 and 36

34. What feature is labelled 1 in Figure 5?

a. Magma chamber
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b. Sill
c. Pyroclasts/Tephra
d. Lava
e. Crater
35. Identify the feature labelled 6 in Figure 5?
a. Magma chamber
b. Sill
c. Pyroclasts/Tephra
d. Lava
e. Crater
36. Identify the feature labelled 2 in Figure 5?
a. Magma chamber
b. Sill
c. Pyroclasts/Tephra
d. Lava
e. Crater
37. Who proposed the catastrophism theory?
a. William Whewell
b. Baron Georges Cuvier
c. Herodotus
d. Charles Lyell
e. W. M. Davis
38. John Wesley Powell was famous for?
a.
Local base level a stream gradient.
Cycle of erosion
b.
Weathering, erosion, and transportation of sediments
c.
d.
Catastrophism
e.
None of the above
39. is responsible for the earth magnetic fieid.
a. Crust
b. Inner mantle
c. Outer Mantle
d. Outer core
e. Inner core
40. The most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust is?
a. iron
b. nickel
c. olivine
d. magnesium
e. aluminium

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41. How does temperature vary towards the center of the earth from the Earth's surface?
a. decreases
b. increases
c. remains constant
d. fluctuates
e. none of the above
42. Which of the following has the largest number of active volcanoes?
a. Aleutians
b. Hawaii Island
c. Caribbean Island
d. Alaska
e. Philippines
43. Which of the following is not a divergent plate boundary?
a. the Great Rift Valley of East Africa
b. the East Pacific Rise
c. the San Andreas fault
d. the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
e. Continental margins
44. Volcanic Island arcs are associated with?
a. transform plate boundaries
b. divergent plate boundaries
c. ocean-ocean convergent plate boundaries
d. ocean-continent convergent plate boundaries
e. none of the above
45. One remarkable realization associated with the discovery of seafloor spreading was that:
a.the crust of the continents is denser than the crust of the ocean
b. the crust of the oceans is very young relative to the age of the crust of the
continents
c. mountains are denser than then mantle
d. the rotational poles of the Earth have migrated
e. the crust of the oceans is very old relative to the age of the crust of the continents
46. Which of these pioneer scholar's works was unrelated to fluvial processes and landforms
development?
a. Herodotus
b. James Hutton
c. Aristotle
d. Leonadoo da Vinci
e. John Powell
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47. The study of humans as geomorphic agents of landscape evolution is known as?
a. Paleo geomorphology
b. Anthropogeomorphology
c. Applied Geomorphology
d. Zoogeomorphology
e. Biogeomorphology
48. Geomorphological concept which postulates that natural laws are invariant in time and
space is known as?
a. Plate tectonism
b. Geographical cycle
c. Catastrophism
d. Uniformitarianism
e. Continental drift
49. The study of landform evolution over medium and long timescales is known as?
a. Historical geomorphology
b. Plate tectonism
c. Weathering
d. Cycle of erosion
e. Geomorphic cycle
50. Which of these scholar's works related to volcanic activity.
a. W. M. Davis
b. G. K. Gilbert
c. J. W. Powell
d. J. Hulton
e. C. Lyell

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