Unit 4
We are protected from solar wind and astroids by this.
What is the earth's atmosphere?
A layer of rock.
What is a strata?
No visible movement of rock pieces.
What is a joint?
Height of a mountain's peak above mean sea level.
What is elevation?
This extrusive landform is made of igneous rock, and has magma in a chamber below it.
What is a volcano?
Considered the "father of geology" through his foundational book "the principles of geology."
Who is Charles Lyell?
The creationist version of the geologic column.
What is the diluvial geological column?
What is a fault?
Trough of rock layers.
What is a syncline?
This volcano is currently erupting or has recently erupted.
What is an active volcano?
What is deep-time view?
Giant moving sections of the earth's crust.
What are tectonic plates?
Secondary, smaller earthquakes after a major earthquake.
What are aftershocks?
Arch of rock layers.
What is an anticline?
Magma that contains less than 52% silica, and is the least viscous magma.
What is basaltic magma.
Resources given through living things: i.e. trees, vegetation, and animals.
What is a biological natural resource?
Creation out of nothing.
What is creation ex nihilo?
This scale measure the force/magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
A processes is believed to occur at mid-ocean ridges.
What is subduction?
This area has the most active volcanos on land.
What is the circum-pacific volcano belt, or the ring of fire?
The thinest earth layer.
What is the crust?
How geologists estimate the age of a rock.
What is radiometric dating?
This scale measures the destructiveness of the earthquake.
What is the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale?
The major difference between a mountain and a hill.
What is height?
Batholiths and laccoliths are both types of this.
What is a pluton?