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The major branch of Earth Science that deals with atmospheric conditions.
What is meteorology?
100
The type of time referred to by radiometric dating.
What is absolute?
100
The least useful property for identifying minerals.
What is colour?
100
An example of a hot spot volcano.
What is Hawaii (or Yellowstone)?
100
The name on a mineral that is profitable to mine.
What is an economic mineral?
200
The theory dealing with the formation of the universe.
What is the big bang theory?
200
If undisturbed, the location of the oldest rock.
What is the bottom layer?
200
A coarse grained felsic rock.
What is granite?
200
The type of force associated with reverse faults.
What is compressional?
200
A trap formed through folding.
What is an anticline trap?
300
The properties that lead to the segregation of Earth's layers.
What are gravity (density) and heat (radioactive decay)?
300
Of amphibians, invertebrates, land plants and mammals, the organism that occurred first in geologic record.
What are invertebrates?
300
A rock made up of shells.
What is coquina?
300
A boundary where crust is neither created nor destroyed.
What is transform?
300
The mining method that is cheapest but most damaging to the environment.
What is open-pit mining?
400
The liquid layer of Earth.
What is the outer core?
400
The number of half-lives that pass to reduce a radioactive element to 25%.
What is three?
400
The mineral group for olivine (Mg2SiO4).
What is silicate?
400
The typical boundary for a volcano that is very wide and has a gentle slope.
What is divergent?
400
The initial stage in oil formation.
What is diagenesis?
500
The spheres that interact in photosynthesis.
What are the biosphere and atmosphere?
500
The feature that “erases” a section of geologic history.
What is an unconformity?
500
The parent rock for quartzite.
What is sandstone?
500
The change in energy from a 5.0 magnitude earthquake to a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.
What is 900 times?
500
The rock type that yields a high gamma count during well logging.
What is shale?