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Cha-cha-changes
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Rock n' Roll
Wild Card
100
This is the principle that in undisturbed rock layers, younger rocks are on the top while older rocks are on the bottom.
What is the principle of superposition.
100
This type of weathering breaks down rocks without changing their chemical composition.
What is physical/mechanical weathering
100
These two events are most common along plate boundaries
What is Earthquakes and Volcanoes
100
This type of rock is created when sediment is compacted or cemented together
What is sedimentary rock
100
Water gains energy during evaporation. During which process in the water cycle is energy (water) released?
What is condensation
200
This determines the age of rocks by looking at index fossils, the position of rock layers, intrusions, extrusions, etc.
What is relative age.
200
This type of weathering breaks down bonds holding rocks together.
What is chemical weathering
200
Rift valleys form where two plates move ___________ from each other
What is away
200
This type of rock is created when magma slowly crystallizes below Earth's surface.
What is igneous rock
200
The environment in which an organism is most likely to be preserved as a fossil.
What is an aquatic environment - the sea floor The more water = the more likely for a fossil to form
300
What are two events that could affect the placement of sedimentary layers of rock.
What is faults and intrusions.
300
Give an example of physical weathering
Answers will vary...frost wedging, a plants roots growing through rocks, rocks crashing against a shoreline, etc.
300
Cooled magma found along the edge of plates supports this theory.
What is seafloor spreading
300
These two processes create metamorphic rock
What is heat and pressure
300
Draw a model that exhibits conduction, convection and radiation
What is ....answers will vary
400
This type of age is determined through radioactive decay of specific isotopes
What is absolute age
400
Describe two factors that can change the appearance of a mountain over time
What is the height can be changed, decreased mainly by erosion. Gravity can slowly take broke pieces of rock downhill. Weathering can physically and chemically break down minerals in the rock. Uplifting can force a mountain upwards over time. Mountains could be broken down quickly during an earthquake
400
This causes lithospheric plate movement across the surface of the earth
What is convection currents within the asthenosphere
400
In the four layer of rock shown on the board, which layer would have the fossil from the most recent time period?
What is the top layer
400
These two events cause movement towards the lower mantle Hint: Think of how convection currents work
What is density increases and temperature decreases
500
Form a conclusion based on the picture Ms. Oenes draws on the board of an igneous dike cutting through the rock layers
What is the dike formed after the layer
500
How did Hurricane Katrina change the coast of Southeastern Louisiana in terms of geologic features **See Picture Ms. Oenes puts on board
What is physical weathering caused the loss of land and green vegetation. When hurricanes come to shore they bring a lot of wind that washes up over the land. This causes land loss and erosion due to tidal surges.
500
What would happen if an oceanic plate and a continental plate met at a convergent boundary
What is the oceanic plate would melt underneath the continental plate causing a volcanic mountain range to form.
500
What could be determined from analyzing a layer of rock?
What is...answers will vary. - extinction of species, evolution of species, climate
500
These two events cause movement towards the upper mantle Hint: Think of how convection currents work
What is density decreases and temperature increases