Geologic Formations 6
Misc.
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
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What is a Landslide?
When weathered materials rapidly roll down a hillside in a broken mass
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What does Cenozoic mean?
New/recent life
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What is a Mudslide?
When water soaked weathered materials roll down a hillside in a broken mass
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What is Till?
All earth materials picked up and moved by a glacier
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What is a fossil?
Any preserved record of a once living thing
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What are these?
Kettle lakes
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What is the longest time period in Earth's History?
Precambrian
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What is Deposition?
The placing of Earth materials in a new location
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What is Erosion?
The moving of weathered Earth materials
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What is a trace fossil?
Any preserved record of a once living thing's activities
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What are these?
Finger lakes
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What does Mesozoic mean?
Middle life
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What is Weathering?
Breaking down of rock material through physical or chemical means
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What is chemical weathering?
Occurs when the rocks are chemically broken down
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What is the Load?
Amount of materials carried by water
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What occurred here?
Hydrolysis
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What does Paleozoic mean?
Old life
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What is physical/mechanical weathering?
Breaking up rock materials without altering the chemical makeup of the rock
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What are kettle lakes?
Lakes formed from when a continental glacier breaks off a small piece of its edge; that edge becomes surrounded by till and buried and eventually that piece melts and forms a depression in the ground.
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What is a Finger Lake?
Lakes formed from when a continental glacier rides over some softer land and it gauges out a long deep depression
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What occured here?
Acid erosion of rocks
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What is Abrasion?
When rocks or sand moved by water or wind hit rock and break or chip off parts of other rocks
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What is Hydrolysis?
When rock materials are chemically altered by chemical reactions with water
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What is Mass Wasting?
The movement of rock and soil down slope under the influence of gravity
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What is a Half Life?
The time it takes for half of the radioactive element to change into a new element.