Volcanos
Flooding
Mineral/Energy/Water Resources
Waste Disposal
Climate Change & Geology
Weathering & Clay Minerals
100
This is more likely to experience highly explosive eruptions
What is a volcano that is fed by high-viscosity magma?
100
It is when a river overflows its banks
What is a flood?
100
It is an aquaifer under pressure.
What is a confined or artesian aquifer?
100
It can be seen here.
What is a landfill?
100
In the last 3 or 4 decades, it has gone up.
What is average global temperature?
100
It is caused by the erosion of aluminosilicates.
What is clay?
200
High gas pressure in the magma chamber of a volcano triggers it.
What is an eruption?
200
It is the highest level a flooded river reaches.
What is a floodstage?
200
It is an energy source that does not run out.
What is a "renewable" energy source?
200
It is often burned off or captured for fuel as it seeps out of a landfill.
What is gas?
200
These have increased as the planet is warming.
What are wildfires?
200
It's what happens to rocks when they are exposed to the forces and conditions that exist at the earth’s surface.
What is weathering?
300
A volcano that hasn’t erupted for 9,999 years is classified as...
What is active?
300
It is the shape of the water table when water is pumped from an unconfined aquifer.
What is a cone of depression?
300
It is found in Devonian aged rocks (~390 million years ago, during the Paleozoic era) and younger.
What is coal?
300
It is the highest percentage of household waste.
What is organic waste?
300
It will rise to roughtly 60-70 m if all terrestrial ice melts.
What is sea level?
300
Along with human activity, it one of the major erosional forces.
What is "biological erosion"?
400
It is a large volcano with long low-angle slopes and made dominantly of fluid, mafic lava.
What is a shield volcano?
400
It forms from erosion on the cut banks of rivers, deposition on the point bars of rivers, and downstream meander migration.
What is a floodplain?
400
It's hazards include acid drainage, potential contamination of adjacent waterways, and possibly subsidence and collapse.
What is metallic mineral mining?
400
It is any liquid (spring, rainwater, etc.) that, in the course of passing through a landfill, extracts soluble or suspended solids.
What is leachate?
400
This image shows what can be affected by climate change (we discussed this more generally at the beginning of the semester).
What are "earth systems"?
400
It is the process that can be seen here:
What is "frost wedging"?
500
It is the deadliest volanic hazard
What is a lahar?
500
They can be self-perpetuating and cause downstream communities are forced to build similar structures.
What are floodwalls/dams?
500
It is the reactor seen here:
What is a fusion reactor?
500
It's components include a clay or plastic liner, flares for off-gasing, and monitoring wells.
What is a landfill?
500
It's the year that over 17,000 square kilometers of forest, scrubland and urban area of California was consumed by wildfires, making it the worst wildfire year on record for that state.
What is 2020?
500
•Oil absorbants
•Iron casting
•Animal feeds
•Pottery
•China
•Pharmaceuticals
•Drilling fluids
•Waste water treatment
•Food preparation
•Paint
Landfill liners
What are "uses" or "applications" of clay
600
It increases as a volcano is about to erupt.
What is "seismicity"?
600
It can be seen here:
What is a levee?
600
These are the two conditions under which fossil fuels form.
What are heat and pressure?
600
This nation leads the world in waste per person per year.
What is the US?
600
This is a good pallette cleanser after a depressing lecture on the geologic implications for climate change.
DOGS IN LEATHER JACKETS!!!
600
This is caused when a mass of rock is exposed by weathering, which removes the overlying rock, causing a decrease in the confining pressure on the rock. As such, the rock expands.
What is "exfoliation"?