Earth's Uniqueness, Subsystems, and Source of Heat
Earth's subsystem that includes beach grasses, forms of life in the sea, on land, and even in the air. Which term BEST describes the statement?
Biosphere
Intrusive Igneous Rocks: magma; Extrusive Igneous Rocks: ___
lava
What is the primary process responsible for breaking down rocks into smaller fragments?
weathering
Upward fold
anticlines
Human activity that uses explosives underground that may trigger landslide.
mining
It shield the Earth from solar wind and cosmic radiation.
Magnetic Field
Rocks that formed from too much heat and pressure.
Metamorphic Rocks
Process under the Earth’s crust where formation and movement of magma occur.
magmatism
There are three distinct types of plate boundaries, which of those types creates zone of tension by moving the plates apart?
Divergent Boundary
Destructive mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of volcanic material, rock debris, and water that destroys infrastructures, buries towns and crops and fills river channels.
lahar
This earth's subsystem has different layers such as troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.
atmosphere
What classification of rock is commonly associated with fossil preservation?
Sedimentary Rocks
___: Intrusive Igneous Rocks; Volcanism: Extrusive Igneous Rock
Plutonism
Stress or force created by strike slip fault or transform fault that rocks changes in volume and shape.
shearing stress/force
Abnormal rise in seawater level because of strong wind brought by a storm.
storm surge
The internal heat that accumulated during Earth's formation.
Primordial Heat
Rock dating method in which the bottom layer is the oldest and the uppermost layer is the youngest.
Relative Dating
It refers to the transportation of rock, soil, and mineral particles from one location to another. The main driving force is gravity.
erosion
Type of fault wherein the hanging wall moves downward with respect to the footwall.
normal fault
Hydrometeorological hazard accompanied by lightning, thunder, heavy rains and sometimes strong gust of wind.
thunderstorm
The region or zone where Earth is located in which the amount of solar energy is just enough to make the temperature of the planet neither too hot or too cold.
Goldilocks/Habitable Zone
The process in which sedimentary or igneous rocks arranged in layers.
stratification/bedding
Which type of metamorphism occurs due to proximity to a magma body?
Contact Metamorphism
Type of fault wherein the hanging wall moves upward with respect to the footwall.
Reverse Fault
Geologic hazard where saturated soil loses strength and stiffness and behaves like a liquid, often due to earthquake.
liquefaction