Natural Resources, Flow Resources, and Agriculture
100
This is a combination of one or more minerals.
What is an element?
100
This man proposed an earlier geologic hypothesis called 'Continental Drift'.
Who is Alfred Wegener? (p96)
100
Numerous volcanoes are found along this in the Pacific ocean.
What is the 'Ring of Fire'? (p101)
100
This machine is used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.
What is a seismograph? (p124)
100
This is a strategy of resource use that meets the needs of the current population while protecting Earth's natural resources for future generations.
What is sustainable development? (p149)
200
This is formed by the cooling and hardening of hot, molten rock.
What is igneous rock?
200
The modern theory that governs our understanding of geology is known as this.
What is Plate Tectonics? (p98)
200
These volcanoes are not found along plate boundaries.
What are hot spot volcanoes? (p108)
200
This is place where the rock initially broke and began to move.
What is the Focus? (p122)
200
This is the largest hydroelectric construction undertaken in the history of mankind.
What is the Three Gorges Dam? (p171)
300
The three types of rock in the rock cycle are:
What is Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary?
300
This energy from this common physical process drives tectonic movement.
What are convection currents? (p99)
300
This is one of the biggest form of volcanoes.
What is Shield volcano? (p114)
300
This occurs when loose soil temporarily turns from a solid to a liquid during a quake.
What is liquefaction? (p127)
300
This form of farming is still practiced by nomadic herders, and sometimes involves a technique known as shifting cultivation.
What is subsistence farming? (p184)
400
This type of rock is formed as a consequence of the effects of heat and pressure on rock.
What is Metamorphic?
400
Mountains are formed from this plate boundary movement.
What is a convergent plate boundary? (p102)
400
These are the two Hawaiian terms used to describe solidified lava flows on land.
What is pahoehoe and aa? (p112)
400
This is the general term used to describe the downslope movement of soil, rock, and organic materials as a result of the pull of gravity.
What is mass wasting? (p145)
400
This is the term given to changes in agricultural methods that allowed food production to keep pace with worldwide population growth.
What is the Green Revolution? (p187)
500
This is the term for the assumption that the natural physical, chemical, and biological processes that operate today also operated in the geologic past.
What is the Principle of Uniformitarianism? (p91)
500
The city of San Francisco sits atop this transform fault.
What is the San Andreas fault line?
500
This composite volcano erupted just south of the BC border in 1980.
What is Mt. St. Helens? (p114)
500
Decomposition by the interaction of water with other substances is called __________.
What is Hydrolysis? (p142)
500
Some GMO crops are designed with ____________, which requires farmers to purchase new seeds every year.