Vocabulary Terms
Plate Boundaries
Stresses, Faults, & Volcanoes
Relative & Absolute Dating
Fossils
100
This is a break in Earth's lithosphere where one block of rock moves toward, away from, or past another.
What is a "Fault?"
100
This type of plate boundary occurs when the plates move away from each other.
What is a Divergent Plate Boundary?
100
These are the four different types of stress.
What are "Confining, Compression, Tension, & Shear?"
100
This is a definition for Relative Age Dating.
Answers will vary, but should be similar to: "What is the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other rocks and features nearby."
100
These are the preserved remains or evidence of ancient living things.
What is a "Fossil?"
200
These are atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons.
What are "Isotopes?"
200
Which type of plate boundary creates a strike slip fault?
What is a Transform Plate Boundary?
200
This type of stress is found at a Transform Boundary.
What is a "Shear Stress?"
200
This is a definition for Absolute Age Dating.
Answers will vary, but should be similar to: "What is the numerical age, in years, of a rock or object?"
200
This type of fossil is created when an organism becomes completely encased by a substance like tar or ice, that keeps the organism from decaying.
What are Preserved Remains?
300
This is the Principle of Superposition.
Answers will vary, but should be similar to: "What is in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rocks are on the bottom."
300
What type of plate boundary is shown here?
What is a Convergent Boundary between an Oceanic and Continental Plate?
300
This type of fault is shown here.
What is a "Strike Slip Fault?"
300
This is the process that occurs when an unstable parent isotope changes and turns into a stable daughter isotope.
What is "Radioactive Decay?"
300
This type of fossil is made when a mold gets filled in.
What is a Cast?
400
This is the time required for half of a parent isotope to decay into a daughter isotope.
What is a "Half-Life?"
400
What type of surface features would your expect to find at this plate boundary?
What are an Ocean Trench, Volcanoes, and Faults?
400
This type of fault is shown below.
What is a Reverse Fault?
400
Use the diagram of the rock wall to tell how the "Star" fossil relates to the "Lightning" fossil.
What is the "Star" Fossil is younger than the "Lightning" fossil?
400
This type of fossil does not contain the actual living thing. It is evidence that the living thing existed.
What is a Trace Fossil?
500
This is the principle that the processes we observe today occurred throughout Earth's history.
What is "Uniformitarianism?"
500
What type of geologic events could occur at this plate boundary?
What are Earthquakes & Volcanic Eruptions?
500
Hawaii is an example of this type of volcano.
What is a "Shield Volcano?"
500
Using the Half-Life Graph of Uranium 238 predict how old a sample is that contains 12.5% of the parent isotope.
What is 13,500 million years, or 13.5 billion years old?
500
These are species that existed on Earth for a short length of time, were abundant, and inhabited many locations.
What are "Index Fossils?"