STRESSED OUT
THIS IS WHAT IT'S CALLED WHEN STRESS CAUSES SOMETHING TO LOSE IT'S SHAPE.
WHAT IS DEFORMATION?
SEDIMENTS ARE LAID DOWN HORIZONTALLY BECAUSE ___ BRINGS THEM INTO POSITION.
WHAT IS GRAVITY?
ROCKS THAT DEFORM PLASTICALLY UNDER COMPRESSIVE STRESS CRUMPLE INTO ___.
WHAT ARE FOLDS?
A THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANTICLINE
WHAT IS A DOME?
THIS PART OF THE EARTH IS COMPOSED MOSTLY OF IRON.
WHAT IS THE CORE?
THIS TYPE OF STRESS IS THE RESULT OF FORCES MOVING IN PARALLEL BUT OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS (LIKE SCISSORS).
WHAT IS SHEAR STRESS?
AS A RULE, ___ ROCKS ARE LAID DOWN HORIZONTALLY.
WHAT IS "SEDIMENTARY"?
A ___ IS FORMED BY ROCKS APPEARING TO BEND UPWARD.
WHAT IS A DOME?
THE AMOUNT OF FORCE EXERTED ON AN OBJECT
WHAT IS STRESS?
THIS PART OF THE EARTH IS COMPOSED OF SLOWLY FLOWING ROCK BELOW THE LITHOSPHERE.
WHAT IS THE ASTHENOSPHERE?
ROCKS THAT BREAK UNDER A LOT OF STRESS HAVE BEEN ____.
WHAT IS "FRACTURED"?
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS THAT ARE NOT HORIZONTAL MUST BE ___.
WHAT IS "DEFORMED"?
THIS TYPE OF STRESS CAUSES FOLDS.
WHAT IS COMPRESSIVE?
A "ONE-STEP" BEND IN WHICH THE OLDEST ROCKS ARE AT THE BOTTOM.
WHAT IS A MONOCLINE?
THE TWELVE-THOUSAND MILE RIDGE FORMED BY UNDERWATER VOLCANOES.
WHAT IS THE MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE?
IF A ROCK CAN'T ___ PLASTICALLY OR ELASTICALLY, IT WILL FRACTURE.
WHAT IS "DEFORM"?
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS REVEAL THE ____ OF AN AREA SO THEY ARE GOOD FOR STUDYING THE GEOLOGY OF A REGION.
WHAT IS HISTORY?
A BASIN IS FORMED BY ROCKS APPEARING TO BEND ___.
WHAT IS DOWNWARD?
A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SYNCLINE
WHAT IS A BASIN?
THE NAME OF THE ORIGINAL SUPERCONTINENT ON THE EARTH
WHAT IS PANGAEA?
ROCKS THAT RETURN TO THEIR ORIGINAL SHAPE WHEN STRESS IS REMOVED HAVE UNDERGONE ___ DEFORMATION.
WHAT IS ELASTIC?
"The lowest layers are the oldest, and the higher layers are younger."
THIS IS CALLED ___.
WHAT IS "SUPERPOSITION"?
THE TWO TYPES OF FOLDS THAT ARE OFTEN FOUND ADJACENT TO EACH OTHER.
WHAT ARE SYNCLINE AND ANTICLINE?
THE PRINCIPLE THAT ROCKS ARE LAID DOWN HORIZONTALLY WITH THE OLDEST LAYERS AT THE BOTTOM AND THE YOUNGEST LAYERS ON TOP.
WHAT IS THE PRINCIPLE OF HORIZONTALITY?
THIS IS THE NAME OF THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED THAT NEW EARTH IS GENERATED AT THE MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE.
WHO IS HENRY HESS?