Plate tectionics
The plate boundry shown
What is a convergent boundry?
The agent of erosion respionsible for forming long, narrow, U-shaped valleys
What is continental glaciers?
The reason bodies of water moderate climates
What is water has a higer specific heat than land?
The idea in an undisturbed sequence of sedimentary rock layers, the oldest layer is at the bottom and the youngest is at the top
What is the law of superpostition?
Our Galaxy
What is The Milky Way ?
The two locations with the same magnetic orientation
What is A and E?
The location with the greatest amount of depostition
What is C ?
The reason a cloud is forming in the diagram
What is water vapor is condensing?
List the rock layers of rock units D, E, F, and Fault YY'
D -> Fault YY' -> E -> F
How many years ago the big bang occured
The primary reason continental crust stays on top of oceanic crust
What is continental crust is less dense?
The change in diameter of sediments being carried as stream velocity increases
What is an increase in diameter?
During a heavy rainstorm, runoff is most likely to occur if the surface soil is ...
What is firmly packed clay-sized particles?
The reason C14 is a good to date bones
What is C14 has a short half-life or C14 is good to date organic remains
The nuclear process that occurs when lighter element in a star combine to form heavier elements
What is Nuclear Fusion?
NYS is presently located on this kind of tectonic area.
What is near the center of a large plate?
The type of climate that has the greatest amount of roc weathering caused by frost action
What is a wet climate with temperatures that alternate between below freezing and above freezing?
The direction winds flow in a low pressure system
What is towards the center in a CCW pattern?
Unconformities provide evidence for
What is part of the geologic record has ben destroyed?
The reason the surface of Venus is much hotter than expected, considering it's distance from the Sun
What is the high amount of carin dioxide in the atmosphere?
The kind of plate boundry Hawaii is located on.
TRICK QUESTION
What is it is located in the middle of the pacific plate and is the product of a hotspot?
Outwash plains are formed by a result of depostition by
What is meltwater from glaciers?
The geographic region that is the most common source region for the mT air masses that move into NYS
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
The sequence of events that occured after the formation of the Cambrian limestone and before the Silurian Limestone
What is uplift -> weathering -> erosion -> subsidence ?
The reason a star with high amount of matter tends to have a short life
What is it consumes fuel rapidly?