When sediments are in a river and they bump into each other, rounding out the sediments.
What is Abrasion
100
the oldest rocks are deposited first.
What is the Law of Superposition.
100
3 pieces of evidence that proves the rotation of earth.
1. Day and Night
2. Coreolis Effect
3. Foucault Pendulum
100
Name 3 factors that affect infiltration.
slope of the land, degree of saturation, vegetation, intensity of precipitation, porosity, ground temperature, permeability, capillary action.
200
Color, Luster, Streak, The way it breaks, Hardness, Unique Properties, and Crystal form.
What are the physical properties of a mineral
200
The 4 natural agents of erosion.
What is wind, water, glaciers and gravity
200
"Coelophysis" is an index fossil found in what time period (include early, middle or late)
What is Late Triassic
200
What is a constellation? Give one example.
A group of stars that appear to form a pattern.
Ex. Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Orion, Cassiopeia, Leo
200
What are the ways that energy is transferred?
Conduction, Convection, Radiation
300
The 5 parts to defining a mineral.
What is Naturally occuring, definite chemical composition, atoms arranged in an orderly patter (crystaline structure), solid and inorganic
300
a lonely large boulder left behind by a glacier
What is an erratic
300
What are two characteristics that make up an good index fossil?
it lived over a wide geographical area and it lived for a short time period.
300
The amount of time it takes to complete one cycle of the moon's phases.
What is 29.5 days
300
A current of fast moving air found in the upper levels of the atmosphere.
What is a jet stream
400
The strongest shape of a mineral.
What is Silicon-Oxygen Tetrahedron
400
This occurs on the inside curve of a stream.
What is Deposition.
400
A sample of rock contained 100 grams of potassium-40 (K40) when it was formed. Today the rock contains 50 grams of potassium-40 (K40). According to the Earth Science Reference Tables, what is the age of the rock?
1,300,000,000 years
400
Where can't you see Polaris?
Anywhere in the southern hemiphere.
400
Forms vertical cloud development
What is a cold front
500
smaller areas of rock that are changed into metamorphic rocks occuring during an intrusion.
What is contact metamorphism
500
This landscape has a medium elevationa and is composed of sedimentary rocks.
What are plateaus
500
After 50,000 years, why can't carbon-14 be used to meausure the age?
It has too short of a life and there isn't enough carbon-14 to meausre the age.
500
What is evidence of the big bang theory?
CBR or Cosmic Background Radiation, Red Shift.
500
As relative humidity increases, pressure decreases. WHY?!