Principles
Rocks
Minerals
Plate Tectonics
Geologic Time
100
Which principle states that the oldest layers of sediment are found under the newer layers?
What is the Principle of Superposition.
100
Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary
What is the three rock types.
100
What do minerals build?
What are rocks.
100
The theory that the continents are moving.
What is the theory of continental drift.
100
The largest interval of geologic time.
What is an Eon.
200
Which principle states that you can tell a layer's age by the fossils found within?
What is the Principle of Faunal Succesion.
200
The system of rocks changing from different types to another.
What is rock cycle.
200
What makes a mineral, a mineral?
Inorganic, natural form, solid, elemental form.
200
The man who came up with the theory of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegner.
200
A time period broken up by major events.
What is an era.
300
Which principle states that all sediment layers are deposited horizontally unless deformed by an outside factor.
What is the Principle of Original Horizontality.
300
What are the building blocks of rocks?
What are minerals.
300
Why is color not reliable?
Outside elements can effect the color.
300
Name three of the five types of boundaries.
Transform, Divergent, Convergent, Cont. to Cont., Cont. to Ocean.
300
An era is divided up by which measurement.
What is a period.
400
What is the definition of Crosscutting Relations?
Earthquakes that separate sediments and magma flows are younger then the layers they cut.
400
How does an igneous rock turn into a sedimentary rock?
What is erosion?
400
Name three ways of identifying a mineral.
What are luster, streak, cleavage, color.
400
An example of a divergent boundary.
What is the mid-ocean ridge.
400
The three eras.
What are the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic.
500
What is the definition of the Principle of Inclusion?
This states that an inclusion must be younger then the layer that contains them.
500
The three components that turn an igneous rock into a metamorphic rock.
What is heat, pressure, and time.
500
The hardest known mineral.
What is diamond.
500
Evidence of the Theory of Continental Drift.
Continents fitting together, fossil records matching.
500
An explosion of biodiversity, animals beginning to walk the Earth.
What is the Cambrian Explosion.
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