- •Unit VIII
- •V. Use the words in brackets to form a word that fits in the space.
- •VI. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •VII. Put all types of questions to the sentence.
- •VIII. Read the text.
- •IX. Translate from Russian into English.
- •Test IX unit IX ocean basins
- •V. Use the word in brackets to form a word that fits in the space.
- •VI. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •VII. Put all types of questions to the sentence.
- •VIII. Read the text.
- •IX. Translate from Russian into English.
- •Test X unit X geologic time: a story in the rocks
- •V. Choose the correct word form.
- •VI. Transform the sentences using Participle II.
- •VII. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •VIII. Put questions to which the following sentences are the answers.
- •IX. Read the text.
- •X. Translate from Russian into English.
- •Test XI unit XI plutons and volcanoes
- •V. Choose the right word.
- •VI. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the verbs ending in -ed.
- •VIII. Put questions to which the following sentences are the answers.
- •IX. Read the text.
- •X. Translate from Russian into English.
- •Test XII unit XII metamorphic rocks
- •V. Choose the right word.
- •VI. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •VII. Choose sentences in which –ing forms is Gerund and translate them into Russian.
- •It is difficult to understand the nature of fossils without studying their origin.
- •VIII. Make up questions.
- •IX. Read the text.
- •X. Translate from Russian into English.
- •Test XIII unit XIII earthquakes and the earth’s structure
- •V. Choose the right word.
- •VI. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the use of Infinitive.
- •VII. Make up questions.
- •VIII. Read the text.
- •IX. Translate from Russian into English.
- •Test XIV unit XIV geologic structures, mountain range and continents
- •V. Choose the right word.
- •VI. Translate the following sentences.
- •VII. Make questions beginning with the words in brackets.
- •VIII. Read the text.
- •IX. Translate from Russian into English.
- •Text XV unit XV plate tectonics. A first look
- •V. Choose the right word.
- •VI. Translate the sentences.
- •VII. Make up questions.
- •VIII. Read the text.
- •IX. Translate from Russian into English.
Test XI unit XI plutons and volcanoes
I. Give Russian equivalents.
Geologic event; volcanic ash; to erupt onto the Earth’s surface; to explode violently; to erupt gently; volcanic eruption; resistance to flow; to ooze; in length and width; silica and water content; a flood basalt; a stock; a batholith; to form bubbles in the lava; at supersonic speed.
II. Give English equivalents.
Плутонические породы; текущая лава; гранитная магма; интрузивная порода; затвердевать; жидкая магма; континентальная кора; действующий вулкан; потухший вулкан; мантийный плюм; остывать и становиться жестким; подушечная лава; извергаться под водой.
III. Match the words from “a” and “b” to make word combinations.
to erupt; huge volumes of; cooling and; to solidify; to ooze; properties and; to prevent water from; the weight of; to be buried in; to form;
volcanic ash; escaping; into a fracture; decreasing pressure; from a volcano; volcanic rocks; overlying rocks; behaviour of magma; granitic magma; within the crust.
IV. Complete the sentences.
. . . .is resistance to flow.
Granitic magma solidifies within the Earth’s crust to form a . . . .
. . . . is a tabular, intrusive rock that forms when magma oozes into a fracture.
A pluton exposed over more than 100 square kilometers of the Earth’s surface is a . . . .
. . . . is a small volcano composed of pyroclastic fragments.
Composite cones, sometimes called . . . . , form over a long time by repeated lava flows and pyroclastic eruptions.
. . . . is one that is not now erupting but has erupted in the past and will probably do so again.
(a dormant volcano; dike; a cinder cone; viscosity; strato volcanoes; batholith; pluton)
V. Choose the right word.
Solidification; solid; solidify; solidifies.
In most cases, granitic magma . . . . within the Earth’s crust to form a pluton.
Because the magma loses water, its . . . . temperature rises, causing it to crystallize.
How can such a large mass of magma rise through . . . . rock?
So does magma . . . . or remain liquid as it rises toward the Earth’s surface?
Granitic magma usually . . . . within the crust.
VI. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the verbs ending in -ed.
Continents are composed of relatively thick, low-density granit.
Over millions of years, thick layers of sediment accumulated on the passive east coast of North America.
Terrigenous sediment is sand, silt, and clay eroded from the continents and carried to the deep sea floor by submarine currents.
In Hawaii geologists have watched fresh lava cool.
VII. Translate the sentences with the verbs to be, to have.
The contrasting behaviour of granitic and basaltic magmas is a result of their different compositions.
Mineralogists are to recognize different minerals, and to discriminate one from another.
Tectonic plates together with continents and oceans are constantly gliding over the asthenosphere.
In a gas the atoms are in rapid motion, and have no orderly arrangement.
The waves from an earthquake are sound waves, so that a seismologist has to keep his ear to the ground if he wishes to detect a quake.