OUTSIDE EARTH
This force causes a convergent boundary
What is compression
New geologic epoch being considered, to recognize human impact on the earth.
What is the Anthropocene Epoch?
Second of the Earth's layers from the surface
What is the asthenosphere?
The amount of time for half the daughter element to form in radioactive decay.
What is half life?
Aggregates of these make up rocks.
What are minerals?
The place where one tectonic plate slides beneath another.
What is a subduction zone?
Youngest volcano in Arizona.
What is Sunset Crater?
Area of intense earthquake and volcanic activity surrounding the Pacific Ocean
What is the Ring of Fire?
Dip in the water table created by water well pumping.
What is a cone of depression?
Mountain building event that formed Arizona's porphyry copper deposits
What is the Laramide Orogeny?
Igneous rocks formed outside of earth
What is extrusive
The reason why a scientist might find the same fossil on opposite sides of the ocean
What is the theory of plate tectonics
A mudslide originating on a volcano, due to glacial melting.
What is a lahar?
Components of the scientific method
Development of a hypothesis, gathering evidence, testing, and peer review
This type of rock is formed during seafloor spreading
What is basalt?
Release of seismic energy.
What is an earthquake?
The rock that is made with heat and pressure
What is metamorphic
Massive lateral fault in California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
This scale is used to tell the hardness of a rock
What is Moh's hardness scale
Sedimentary or ingneous rocks with large, angular clasts
What is breccia?
New ocean floor is created here.
What is a rift zone?
Mineral material that can be mined at a profit.
What is ore?
Chart of cooling temperatures of igneous rocks.
What is Bowen's Reaction Series?
Color of a mineral when powdered.
What is streak?
This is how metamorphic rocks are classified.
Foliation or lack of foliation.