Earths Composition
Continental Drift
Igneous Rocks/Volcanoes
Earths History
Random
100
How is science different than other ways of knowing?
What is Science is only natural things and not supernatural.
100
What was the wegners supercontinent called?
What is Pangea/
100
_______ means resistant to flowing.
What is viscosity.
100
Geologists have organized the events of earths history and represented them on the ____________.
What is geologic time scale.
100
Which earthquake waves arrive first at the station?
What is P waves.
200
Relate temperature and depth to the inside of the earth.
What is The further down in to the earth we go, the more the temperature increases.
200
What evidence did wegner find to support his theory?
What is He found fossils from different continents that are no where near each other today and that have totally different environments. He also found that the continents fit together like a puzzle and that the mountain ranges line up.
200
What's the difference between magma and lava?
What is Magma is molten rick trapped underground, and lava is when molten rock reaches the surface.
200
What is the longest unit of time?
What is eon.
200
Where do most earthquakes occur?
What is earthquakes occur along faults, often found alomg plate boundaries but many faults are also not near plate margins.
300
Which layer is solid and which one liquid? (Inner core and outer core)
What is Inner core is solid and the outer core is liquid.
300
What is sea floor spreading?
What is a theory that new crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges, moves a few cm/yr to each side, and destroyed at trenches.
300
T OR F: All igneous rocks form from the deposition of hardening sediment.
What is False.
300
What does Cenozoic mean?
What is recent life.
300
Sedimentary rocks form when:
What is sediment is compacted and cemented together.
400
Put the layers of earth in order from outermost to innermost. -Outercore, uppermantle, asthenosphere, inner core, lower mantle, uppermost mantle, continental crust.
What is Continental crust, uppermost mantle, asthenosphere, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core, inner core.
400
What is the general profile of the seafloor from left to right? - mid-ocean ridge, seamounts, shelf slope, slope shelf, abyssal plain, trench.
What is shelf slope, abyssal plain, mid ocean ridge, seamounts, trench and slope shelf
400
What type of volcano would scoria be found near?
What is Cinder cone
400
What is a cast?
What is fossil impression filled with minerals or sediments.
400
In a sequence of undeformed sedimentary rocks, the oldest beds are on the bottom and the youngest on top.
What is Principle of superposition.
500
How do scientists learn about the earths interior?
What is scientist use methods like sonar, submersibles, dredging and drilling.
500
What kind of plate collision creates the deepest earthquakes?
What is Ocean-Ocean
500
What type of volcano is least explosive but largest in size/
What is Shield
500
What is a mold?
What is a fossil impression.
500
What is a half life?
What is the time required for one half of a radioisotope to decay.
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