Chapter 12
When rocks and soil move by weathering alone.
What is mass wasting?
Smaller streams that feed into larger streams.
What are tributaries?
What is a glacier?
Harnessing geothermal energy is one of the overarching themes of this type of study.
What is volcanism?
(Chapter 8: Volcanos and Volcanism)
The type of data that comes from when scientist observe and write descriptions of the observations.
What is descriptive data?
(also accept qualitative data)
The two broad types of weathering based on their activity.
What are chemical and mechanical.
This type of power accounts for 63% of the world's renewable energy?
What is hydropower?
Type of igneous rock with the least amount of silica.
What is basalt?
The overarching theme of this chapter is the movement of water on the surface of the earth.
What is Chapter 16: Surface Waters?
(also accept lakes and streams)
The intersection of latitude and longitude tells you this.
What is the geographic coordinates?
The picking up and moving of rocks and other materials.
What is erosion?
This is a description of how the stream changes elevation from its beginning to its end.
What is elevation profile?
This measures the amount of devastation as a result of an earthquake.
What is intensity?
The theme of this chapter is the study of the earth itself.
What is geology?
(chapter 4: The Earth Speaks)
This is the measure of a rock's stretchiness.
What is elasticity?
A formation of wind-driven sand.
What is a sand dune?
Low gradient streams move slower and form wide, looping bends called this.
What are meanders?
The large circle of the earth found at the 0 degree line separating N and S.
What is the equator?
One of the overarching themes from this chapter is our responsibility to the world as Christians.
What is Chapter 1: The World of Earth Science
(also accept Creation Mandate)
The type of lava that forms smoothly wrinkled, ropey surfaces.
What is pahoehoe?
A delta-like deposit formed where the intermittent streams in dry, mountainous areas empty into a flat desert.
What is an alluvial fan.
This lake occupies the lowest elevation of land on any continent.
What is the Dead Sea?
An enormous water wave that causes great devastation related to seismic activity.
What is a tsunami?
This chapter covers the movement of rock and soil into new locations.
What is Chapter 12: Weathering, Erosion, and Soils
This is the process of forming desert pavements by wind erosion.
What is deflation?