Geologic History of NYS, Landscape and Bedrock
Life Cycle of Stars and H-R Diagram
Kepler's Laws
Earth
Continental Drift
100
The estimated time of origin of the Earth and the Solar System
What is a 4.6 BYA?
100
A stars life-cycle is determined by this
What is mass?
100
A planet orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit with this as one of the foci
What is the sun?
100
The central part of the Earth.
What is the Earth's core?
100
The scientific theory that Earth's continents move and drift relative to one another over geological time
What is plate tectonics (or Continental Drift)?
200
At the end of this time period Pangea began to break up.
What is the Triassic Period?
200
ALL stars being this way and evolve.
What is a Star-forming Nebula?
200
When a Planet is further away from the sun this is how it moves
What are slower?
200
All of the Earth's liquid and solid water.
What is hydrosphere?
200
The area where there is a Transform Plate Boundary
What is a fault?
300
Elmira, NY is from this geologic period
What is the Devonian period?
300
On the H-R Diagram, a star with a surface temperature of 4,000, that is orange in color and has a luminosity of approximately
What is Pollux?
300
The position where a planet is at its furthest point from the sun in its elliptical orbit is called this
What is a Aphelion?
300
The thin layer of solid rock that makes up the outermost part of the Earth.
What is the Earth's crust?
300
A place where two tectonic plates collide, and one is forced beneath the other into the Earth's mantle
What is a Subduction Zone?
400
Riverhead, Long Island is made of this type of bedrock
What is a sedimentary?
400
Using the H-R diagram, we notice that as the luminosity increases this happens to the mass.
What is increases?
400
Planets closer to the sun have an orbital speed that is
What is a quicker?
400
This layer of the crust is thicker
What is the Continental Crust?
400
Locations where plates move apart.
What are divergent boundaries?
500
Old Forge is in this landscape region
What is a the Adirondack Mountains?
500
On the H-R diagram this is the relationship between luminosity and mass
What is direct?
500
When the planet is in this position the orbital speed is faster
What is Perihelion?
500
This layer of Earth's crust has a higher density
What is the Oceanic Crust?
500
A geological process where tectonic plates pull apart at mid-ocean ridges, allowing magma from the mantle to rise, cool, and create new oceanic crust
What is Seafloor Spreading?