PLATE TECTONICS
The type of boundary at the San Andreas fault in California.
What is a transform boundary?
The gas necessary for life to exist on Earth.
What is oxygen?
The notation TT means to geneticists.
What is two dominant alleles?
Two methods are used for determining the age of rocks and fossils.
What is relative and absolute dating?
Name of the landmass before the continents drifted apart.
What is pangaea?
Volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean rim form.
What is the Ring of Fire?
The time era we are currently living.
What is Cenozoic?
Creates sand dunes and rock arches.
What is wind erosion?
Scientists who study fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
This can occur at any plate boundary to release stress.
What is an earthquake?
The land form created at a continental to continental divergent boundary.
What is a rift valley?
During Earth's history the time period which was the longest.
What is Precambrian?
Time is takes for half of the radioactive atoms in a sample of a radioactive element to decay.
What half-life?
Beaches change shape and size because of ___________.
What is wave erosion?
This is created when two continental crust collide.
What is a mountain?
Scientist use to put Earth's history in geologic order.
What is relative dating?
A curve or bend in a stream bed.
What is a meander?
Type of rock where fossils are formed.
What is sedimentary rock?
River erosion can move all sizes of ______________.
What is sediment?
The movement of convection currents.
What is warm material expands and rises, while cold material contracts and sinks?
The Era and time period that the dinosaurs lived.
What is Mesozoic era and Jurassic period?
Triangle-shaped area at the mouth of a river and where deposition occurs.
What is a delta?
A fossil where all of the organic material is replaced by minerals.
What are petrified fossils?
The indication of fossil imprints of ocean clams found in the rock of the Appalachian Mountains.
What are mountains under the oceans?