Tides and Times
This happens when the sun, moon, and earth are in alignment.
What is a spring tide?
This means "growing" and describes a moon phase when we begin to see more light reflected from the moon after a new moon.
What is waxing?
This law states that the older rock layers are found closer to the bottom and the younger rock layers are found closer to the top.
What is the law of superposition?
This landform is a supercontinent.
What is Pangea?
This feature of Earth determines the seasons in each hemisphere.
What is tilt?
This type of tide would occur during the First Quarter moon.
What is a neap tide?
This phase happens after a full moon when the light begins to disappear and the moon is not at a quarter.
What is a waning gibbous?
What is absolute?
This type of plate movement occurs when two plates move away from each other.
What is divergent?
Earth ___________ around the sun.
What is revolves?
These two moon phases have the greatest range betweeen high tide and low tide
What is a new moon and a full moon?
In this moon phase, the light is shining on the side of the moon facing away from us
What is a new moon?
Rock layers give an approximate date of a fossilized organism. This is called ___________ dating.
What is relative?
These types of plates move toward each other.
What is convergent?
The galaxy that earth is located in.
What is the Milky Way?
This celestial body has the greatest effect on the tides.
What is the moon?
What is waning?
A trilobite fossil would be _____________ than an ammonite fossil if it was found below the ammonite fossil in a rock layer.
What is older?
This type of plate moves under a more dense continental plate during subduction.
What is an oceanic plate?
During this season, a hemisphere will experience more direct sunlight and longer days.
What is summer?
This is the number of high tides a location would typically have every day.
What is two (2)?
This moon phase occurs when the side of the moon facing the sun is fully visible to earth.
What is a full moon?
A rock layer found on two separate continents, showing that the organisms and climate were the same, indicates that the two continents were _____ at one time.
What is joined together?
New land is formed at these divergent plate boundaries.
What are ridges?
The planets stay in orbit around the sun due to this type of pull.
What is gravitational?