Topography
Erosion
Plate Tectonics
Fossils
Geologic Time Scale
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This describes an area's height above sea level.
What is elevation?
100
This is the major agent of the erosion that has shaped the Earth's surface.
What is water?
100
This boundary forms when two plates slip past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
100
Most fossils form from this being buried by sediment.
What is remains of living things/organic material.
100
This is the length of time, in billions of years, that the Geologic Time Scale covers.
What is 4.6 billion?
200
This is a feature of topography formed by processes that shape the Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
200
This is the type of erosion that created stalactites and stalagmites.
What is groundwater erosion?
200
This states that Earth's plates are in slow, constant motion, driven by convection in the mantle.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
200
The most common fossils are are molds and these.
What are casts?
200
This is the era that we are currently residing in.
What is Cenozoic era?
300
**DAILY DOUBLE** What 3 things are included in an area's topography?
What are elevation, relief, and landforms?
300
This occurs when water slows and drops some of its eroded sediment in a new area.
What is deposition?
300
This is the process that forms volcanoes from the ocean's crust.
What is subduction?
300
This gives evidence of how different organisms have evolved and of the history of life on Earth.
What is the fossil record?
300
This is the Era that included the dinosaurs, Jurassic, and Triassic periods.
What is Mesozoic?
400
This shows the surface features of an area as if you were looking down on them.
What is a topographic map?
400
These are the two processes by which glaciers erode the land.
What are plucking and abrasion?
400
This supercontinent began to break apart 200 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
400
This is the change in living things over time.
What is evolution?
400
This time covers a majority (88%) of Earth's history.
What is the Precambrian Time?
500
This is the definition of relief.
What is the difference between the highest and lowest parts of an area?
500
This is a region in which a layer of limestone close to the surface creates deep valleys, caverns, and sinkholes.
What is Karst topography?
500
Similar fossils on continents separated by oceans are evidence of this theory proposed by Wegner?
What is continental drift theory?
500
**DAILY DOUBLE** This is a type of fossil that provides evidence of activities of an ancient organism.
What is trace fossil?
500
This is what geologists used to organize the geologic time scale?
What is the fossil record OR rocks?
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