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APSC 151 2018 FINAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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APSC 151 2018 FINAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Term 1 of 52
One of these is not an effective way to prepare the walls in advance of a deep foundation
excavation in silty clay soil:
caisson construction with an auger drill
reinforced and tiedback walls using a diaphragm wall technique
driving anchors from the pre-excavation ground surface and excavating through them
using a large hammer to drive sheet piles into the ground
staged horizontal bracing during downwards excavatio
Term 2 of 52
What glacial landform is responsible for a large portion of the water resources for Metro-
Toronto?
the remnants of glacial Lake Bonneville
the drumlin field near Guelph and Peterborough
the Niagara Escarpment
the Oak Ridges moraine and its included channel fills of coarse glacial outwash
pingoes and blocks of buried ice mined from glacial sediments between Toronto and
Muskoka
,Term 3 of 52
If the Earth's magnetic field did not occasionally reverse polarity:
polar-wander curves would not exist
compasses would not work
the sea floor would not produce linear magnetic anomalies
paleomagnetic analysis of a rock would not give the direction to the pole
continental drift would not have occurred
Term 4 of 52
The most common cause of tunnel failure, cost overruns and delays is
poor support installation quality
poor mechanical engineering of excavating equipment
errors in engineering analysis
inadequate or erroneous interpretation of the engineering geology
poor quality control on support and excavation equipment
Term 5 of 52
With which rock type or rock structure do you associate the formation of karst topography?
glacial till
basalt
bauxite
stratovolcano
limestone
,Term 6 of 52
The ground motion from a Magnitude 6 earthquake is approximately:
twice as much as ground motion from a magnitude 5 earthquake
ten times as much as ground motion from a magnitude 5 earthquake
twenty times as much as ground motion from a magnitude 5 earthquake
thirty times as much as ground motion from a magnitude 5 earthquake
one hundred times as much as ground motion from a magnitude 5 earthquake
Term 7 of 52
Which type of soil may eventually develop in a hot, wet region?
lahar
pedocal
pedalfer
laterite
pedoxylite
Term 8 of 52
Where is the best place to look for copper porphyry deposits?
subducting plate margins
shield volcanoes in the middle of plates
spreading plate margins
transform plate margins
kimberlite pipes in the middle of plates
, Term 9 of 52
Which of the following is a form of ground failure that is related to earthquake activity?
dilatancy
tsunami
liquefaction
solifluction
ground bulging
Term 10 of 52
Lake on the Mountain near Picton, Ontario ( just west of Kingston) is an example of a (an)
perched water table
unconfined aquifer
aquitard
fault-controlled artesian spring
karstic aquifer
Term 11 of 52
Abundent evidence of fossils of life-forms that make hard protective shells did not appear in
the geologic record until how long ago?
3 billion years
5 billion years
65 million years
300 million years
600 million years
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