Evolution
The name of the scientist who is credited with the idea of natural selection.
Charles Darwin
When a divergent boundary occurs beneath oceanic lithosphere, the rising convection current below lifts the lithosphere, producing a----------, such as in the atlantic
mid-ocean ridge
Name the 3 main type of rock classifications
igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary
Volcanoes are usually located where _______ meet.
tectonic plates
the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
lithosphere
The human creation of a species such as a labradoodle or a liger.
Artifical selection (GMO's)
The 3 types of faults along which lines earthquakes can occur
Normal
Strike-slip
Reverse
dating is a method used to date rocks and other objects based on the known decay rate
Radioactive dating
Name 3 types of volcanoes
Cinder cone, composite, shield
steep depressions in the deepest parts of the ocean [where old ocean crust from one tectonic plate is pushed beneath another plate, raising mountains, causing earthquakes, and forming volcanoes on the seafloor and on land.
Trench
Name three types of adaptations. Give examples
Structural (physical)
Behavioral (ex:migration)
Physiological (chemical)
Name the 3 kinds of boundaries and describe them.
Transform (slide)
Divergent (apart)
Convergent (collide)
basic concept in geology that describes the transitions through geologic time among the three main rock types: sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous.
Rock Cycle
The 2 types of waves that travel inside the earth during an earth quake.
Primary and secondary waves
Epoch, Eon, Era, and Period are all ways to describe ____.
Geologic Time
a branch of biology that deals with the characteristics, heredity and variation of organisms
Genetics
older and denser seafloor underthrusts the continental mass, dragging downward into the Earth’s upper mantle the accumulated trench sediments.
Subduction Zone
the process of determining an (exact) age on a specified chronology in archaeology and geology.
Absolute Dating
A seismic wave that travels across the top of the Earth as opposed to through it. Usually larger amplitudes and longer wavelengths, and they travel more slowly.
Surface waves
A zone of the earth's mantle that lies beneath the lithosphere and consists of several hundred kilometers of deformable rock
Asthenosphere
A useless part left over from adaptation or evolution
vestigial structure
a divergent boundary or divergent plate boundary is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other creating this kind of valley, Such as in Africa
Rift
the science of determining the order of past events (i.e., the age of an object in comparison to another), without necessarily determining their absolute age
Relative Dating
epicentre
history of life as documented by the remains or imprints of the organisms from earlier geological periods preserved in sedimentary rock.
Fossil Record