Chapter 9
What are two vocabulary words that are involved in the hydrologic cycle?
Answers will vary: precipitation, evaporation, condensation, transpiration, etc.
What are the three primary agents or erosion?
Red and Blue beget Purple. Yellow and Blue beget Green. Red and Yellow beget Orange.
Red and Green, Yellow and Purple, Blue and Orange; all beget Brown.
What is pillow lava?
Steve's lava chicken is undeniably tasty.
What are plate tectonics?
Tekken means 'Iron Fist' in Japanese.
What are the two types of molten rock?
Magma and Lava.
What are the 3 types of drainage patterns?
Dendritic, Radial, and Trellis
Describe in percentages what four things make up soil (like a pie chart).
30% Height, 30% Strength, 30% Compassion, 100% LEVI
What is a fissure eruption?
Weather checked tires are a sign of rubber degradation from UV rays, heat, or aging. It is characterized by cracks forming in the sidewall or tread of the tire.
Describe three types of plate boundaries.
Fiesta and Correlle are two of the most popular dinner plate brands.
What is the difference between minerals and rocks?
The mineral Pyrite is commonly referred to as "Fool's Gold" because of its' metallic, brass-yellow complexion. Although it resembles gold, it is much harder and more brittle and will shatter on impact.
Explain what dripstone is and what it can form.
It is dissolved Calcium carbonate and leads to the making of stalactites and stalagmites.
What are three types of mechanical weathering? Define them.
In 1906, Tokuji Hayakawa invented the modern mechanical pencil.
Differentiate between pahoehoe and a'a lava flow.
Lava lamps combine two liquids of similar density which are insoluble with each other (which means they won't mix).
Describe four types of faults.
Elements of legal culpability, or criminal fault, include intention, knowledge of result, recklessness, and negligence.
Define intrusive versus extrusive rocks and give an example of each.
Extrusion is a manufacturing process where a material is heated and forced through a shaped die (a plate with a shaped hole) to produce objects matching that shape.
Explain what groundwater is, and how aquifers apply to what groundwater is in lieu of springs, wells, and geysers.
What are three types of chemical weathering? Define them.
A mole is a fundamental unit in Chemistry for measuring the amount of a substance. It is equal to 6.022x10^23 particles (such as atoms, ions, molecules).
What are the three main types of volcanoes? Define them.
Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD and buried Pompeii. It erupted again in 1631 resulting in the destruction of villages such as Torre del Greco and Ercolano.
What is the depth of the Marianas trench in feet?
36070 of LEVI's feet.
What are three types of fossil fuels and what makes them different?
The octane rating of fuel is a measurement of that fuels stability. It quantifies the amount of pressure that can be withstood before the fuel will spontaneously combust.
Explain how erosion and transport of sediments by steams plays into 3 different types of loads: define the loads.
Long answer: involving dissolved, suspended, and bed load.
Describe what soil horizons are and explain four different soil horizon layers.
HOFBrINCl (Hoff-Brinkle) is a mnemonic device used to remember the diatomic elements of the periodic table. These elements are found naturally as molecules (consisting of two atoms) rather than as single atoms.
What is an earthquake? Differentiate between the versions of measurement.
Captain Planet, he's our hero, gonna take pollution down to zero!
Describe the progression from a volcanic island to a guyot.
LEVI!
What are the 3 types of rocks and their definitions?
Long answer: Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic.