Geological Time
What is the term for finding the exact age?
Absolute Age
What are the four plate tectonics?
Convergent, divergent, hot spot, transform
What type of volcano has a very shallow steep and lava oozes out slowly?
What is the term for the process in which water falling from the clouds?
Precipitation
What is water called when it infiltrates into the soil below the Earth’s surface?
Groundwater
What is the term for younger rocks on the top and older rocks on the bottom?
The Law of Superposition
What is it called when plate tectonics move toward each other?
Convergent
What is the term when molten rock reaches the surface?
Lava
What is the term for the process in which water is being evaporated from the leaves of plants?
Transpiration
What is a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater?
Aquifer
What is the original atom called?
The parent atom
What is it called when one plate tectonic descends?
Sublimation
What is the name for the part of a volcano where the lava gets ejected from?
Main Vent\ Crater
Is there a fix amount of water on Earth?
YES!
What is a naturally formed underground chamber or series of chambers most commonly produced by dissolving limestone?
Cavern
What is the term for when half of the parent atoms form a new atom?
Half-Life
What event forms when plate tectonics diverge in the ocean?
Trenches
What is the part of a volcano that connects the magma chamber to the opening of the volcano?
Conduit
What major layer of Earth does all the water on the planet belong to?
Hydrosphere
What is the term for the ability of a rock or sediment to let fluids pass through its open spaces, or pores?
Permeable
What is the term for a the preserved remains of plants and animals whose bodies were buried in sediments, such as sand and mud, under ancient seas, lakes and rivers?
Fossils
What type of plate tectonic forms volcanoes?
What is the scientific name for composite volcanoes?
Strato
What is the term for when water penetrates into the soil?
Infiltration
What is the term for a natural hot spring that occasionally sprays water and steam above ground?
Geyser