Binge of Cosmos and Earth Formation
This is a cycle of observations and experiments.
What surely is, the scientific method
Mountain Ranges form at these types of boundaries,
What are convergent boundaries?
Folds form in these types of environments
What are ductile environments?
This percentage of all water on earth is fresh water
What is, 2.8%
Weather is short term, and this is long term
What is climate
The earth differentiated (formed) around this long ago.
What is, 4.49Ga
Active volcanoes grow faster than this
What is, erosion?
Faults are the result of this type of stress...
What is brittle stress?
Groundwater is stored in these rocks units...
Paleoclimates temperatures are measured from bubbles found in these cores
What are ice cores?
Density is defined by...
What is, mass/volume
These flood basalts cover the entire palouse...
What are the columbia river basalts?
Atoms are made of these two components...
What are the nucleous and electrons?
An aquifer has high ____ and ____
What are, porosity and permeability
This local region in the great state of WA is the result of glaciation
What is the Palouse?
Just after the big bang, these elements were formed...
What are, H, He, Li?
Basalts are the result of these types of eruptions...
What are effusive erruptions
The half-life can be defined as
What is the time needed for half of the original isotope concentrations to be remaining?
(A rate of decay)
Water in this aquifer is about 10,000yrs old
What is the Grand Ronde Aquifer?
The last time CO2 levels where this high most of the animals dropped dead during this extinction
What is the Permian mass extinction
The lunar formation event is known as...
What is, The Giant Impact Thoery
(Variations: Giant Impact Hypothesis)
Denser iron material are found in this layer of the Earth
What is the core complex?
A Btu or British thermal unit is the amount of energy needed to ...on a chilly london morning.
What is raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit?
These two isotopes are used to determine the source water of a hot spring system
What are Deuterium and Oxygen-18?
The products of this combusion rection CH4+O2=____ + ____, are...
What are H2O and CO2?