Biodiversity
The primary cause of loss of biodiversity
What is habitat loss?
These type of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
Scientists estimate that the earth is this old.
What is 4.5 billion years old?
(Will also accept what is 4 billion years old?)
The man who proposed the plate tectonics/continental drift theory.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Name the two different types of weathering.
What are physical (mechanical) and chemical weathering?
One of the geological events that can cause a tsunami.
What is an earthquake?
What is a landslide/mudslide?
Plants and animals that are not native to the area in which they are found.
What are invasive species?
Igneous rock can be classified into these 2 types.
What is intrusive and extrusive?
Useful fossils that help to tell the relative ages of the rocks around them.
What are index fossils?
The Continental Drift Theory was not accepted at first because it did not explain this.
What is how the continents moved?
The laying down of sediment.
What is deposition?
Snow falling down the side of a mountain.
What is an avalanche?
A monocultural forest may be susceptible to this problem.
What is deforestation?
Also accept--disease, parasites, completely destroyed
This type of sedimentary rock is formed from dead plants.
What is organic sedimentary rock?
The era that we are currently living in.
What is Cenozoic?
This is the mechanism that causes the plates to move
What are convection currents?
Acid rain is an example of this type of weathering.
What is chemical weathering?
The most common things needed to prepare for a natural disaster.
What are food and water stocked up?
This law in 1973 insured that diminishing species would be protected.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
This type of rock is the only kind to have fossils in it.
What is sedimentary rock?
An event in which many species of organisms die out at the same time
What is mass extinction?
The name of the idea that states that the youngest rocks of the ocean floor are at divergent boundaries, moving away from the boundary.
What is seafloor spreading?
Name 2 agents of weathering.
What is water, ice, wind, gravity and/or glaciers?
Name 2 of the 3 names of storms that form over warm ocean water.
What are (hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones)?
List 3 benefits from biodiversity.
What is food, habitat, medicines, clothing, economic, rich soil, flood protection, wind break--(answers may vary)
One of two reasons why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is strong and durable?
The oldest layer of rock is on the bottom and each higher layer is younger than the rocks below it.
What is the Law of Superposition?
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)?
One example of erosion that happens rapidly
What are landslides, hurricanes, floods, waves, volcanoes?
Name 3 of the 4 types of volcanoes.
What are Cinder cone, Shield, Composite or Dome?