TEK(s)7
7a. DEFINE RELATIVE DATING
the science of determining the relative order of past events, without necessarily determining their absolute age.
8a. NAME THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF FOSSILS
transitional fossils, proposed transitional fossils, fossil lineages, and significant fossil deposits
10a. DEFINE THE THEORY OF PLATE TECTONICS
that the outer rigid layer of the earth (the lithosphere) is divided into a couple of dozen "plates" that move around across the earth's surface relative to each other, like slabs of ice on a lake.
11a. What Natural processes are constantly reshaping the earths surface?
weathering, erosion and deposition,etc.
15a. What is a benefit associated with El nino's?
upwelling along the eastern edge of the Pacific.
7a. NAME THE DIFFERENT METHODS OF RELATIVE DATING
original horizontal, rock superposition, lateral continuity, cross-cutting relationships, unconformities, index fossils, bio zones.
8a. DEFINE A COMPLETED FOSSIL
a remnant, impression, or trace of an organism of past geologic ages that has been preserved in the earth's crust; containing a completed model(every section of a creature.
10b. Name the three types of boundaries
CONVERGENT
DIVERGENT
TRANSITION
11b. What type of Plate boundary forms Mountains?
converging plates.
15b. What is the purpose of ICE CORES?
ice cores allow analyst to observe weather and climate changes within a region over many of thousands of years.
7b. THE LAW OF CROSS CUTTING
8b. DEFINE THE TERMINAL PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION EVENT
known as the Great Dying, the End-Permian Extinction, the Big Die or the Great Permian Extinction, occurred about 252 Ma (million years) ago, forming the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods
10e. WHAT IS THE MOST WELL KNOWN TRANSFORM BOUNDARY IN THE USA?
San Andreas Fault Line in California.
11c. What were Alfred Weagners main reasons for publishing the continental drift theory?
geological “fit”(Puzzle Piece Appearance) and fossil evidence.
15c. Define an Aquifer?
a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
7c. THE ROCK PATTERNS OF THE GRAND CANYON ARE EXAMPLE OF WHAT RELATIVE DATING METHOD?
Lateral Continuity.
8c. DEFINE THE CRETACEOUS MASS EXTINCTION EVENTS
was a sudden mass extinction of some three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, approximately 66 million years ago.
10c. What geological events occur at a Divergent Boundary?
Mid-Ocean Ridges, shallow earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, a high topographic ridge, and very young lithosphere.
11d. satellite imagery, aerial photography, and topographic and geologic maps
examples of human innovation to plot geological structures/features.
15d. Name the five subsystems of the carbon Cycle
magnetosphere, biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere
7c. WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE FIVE SCIENTIST CREDITED WITH CREATING THE THEORY OF RELATIVE DATING?
Nicolas Steno, William Smith, Georges Cuvier, Alexandre Brongniart, and James Hutton
8c. NAME THE BIG 5 EXTINCTIONS
10f. What is the most well known landmass in reference to the Plate Tectonics theory?
Pangaea
11e. How has Human population growth effected the earths sub systems?
Over consumption can cause soil to dry, water supplies to lack abundance and natural farming methods to become ineffective.
15e. Define Coral Bleaching.
a process whereby the coral colonies lose their color, either due to the loss of pigments by microscopic algae living in symbiosis with their host organisms.