3.1-3.2
The firsts stage of Noah's flood.
What is the flooding stage?
A thick ice sheet that slowly moves under its own weight.
What is a glacier?
The remains or impression of living things preserved usually in sedimentary rock.
What are fossils?
Massive wave caused by an earthquake on the ocean floor.
What is a tsunami?
The process in which sediments are transported along the coast with the current.
What is a longshore drift?
The solid parts of the earth.
What is the geosphere?
Organic material in soil.
What is hummus?
A mineral containing metal.
what is an ore?
All water on earth liquid, solid, and gas.
What is the hydrosphere?
An underwater valley where the oceanic crust seems to be separating.
What is a rift?
The center of an earth quake on the surface and underground.
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What is an epicenter and hypocenter (focus)?
Rocks formed from sediments that have been hardened by a cementing process.
What is sedimentary rock?
A sedimentary rock formed from the remains of living things instead of minerals.
What is coal?
A large stream that moves through the ocean.
What is an ocean current?
A body of water where the river meets the ocean.
What is an estuary?
The 4 types of mountains based on their geological features.
What are folded, domed, volcanic, and fault block?
Rocks that can be formed from magma or lava.
What is igneous rock?
What is a natural gas?
Explain how high and low tide are created.
The gravitational pull of the moon pulls the ocean tide high when the moon is close and leaves the tide low when the moon is far from the earth.
Under water plains that border the continental shelf.
What is a continental shelf?
The idea that present observations can explain all the geological features of the earth.
What is Uniformitarianism?
Sedimentary or igneous rock that seems to have been changed by heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
The use of plant and animal products to make alternative fuel.
What is biofuel?
Explain neap and spring tide.
Spring tide is when the moon and sun are on opposite sides of the earth and combine gravitational forces to pull the tides to their highest.
Neap tide is when the moon is at 90 degrees to the sun and the gravitational forces work against each other to make the tides their lowest.
Tectonic activity in which it is believed the larger plates slide under the smaller plates.
What is subduction?