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Earth Shaking
What time is it Mr. Earth?
Todd loves streams
Glaciers, coasts and oceans oh my
Geo-awsomeness
100
A _____________ is the ground motion caused by seismic waves passing along and through the Earth.
What is earthquake
100
Define the term "isotope"?
What is a variety of an element with different numbers of neutrons.
100

What is the current epoch of Earth history

Holocene

100
What is the original source of the energy stored in fossil fuels?
What is the sun. Fossil fuels are the result of solar energy being converted to chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis.
100

Which of the following is a critical mineral in Canada? a. samarium b. potash c. yttrium d. lanthanum

What is b. potash

200
True or False: S-waves cause volume changes in the materials they are passing through.
What is False (P-waves are compressive and cause volume changes; S-waves cause shape changes)
200
The __________________ states that in a stratigraphic sequence, the beds on top are the youngest.
What is Principle of Superposition
200

Why is clay porous but not permeable?

Very small pores lead to slow flow rates and may pores isolated from others preventing flow

200

The deepest depths in the world's oceans are associated with what type of tectonic plate boundaries?

What is subduction zones (specifically ocean-ocean boundaries)

200
The ore grade of a mineral varies through time and space due to what 2 factors?
What are extraction/processing costs and market price.
300
The largest earthquakes occur at what type of plate tectonic boundaries?
What is subduction zones.
300

What are the 2 criteria required for a fossil organism to be classified as an index fossil?

What is (1) abundantly preserved, (2) geographically widespread, (3) existed as species for short time, (4) easily identified

300
True or False: "Balancing rock" atop Peach cliff is an example of an esker.
What is False. Balancing Rock is an erratic.
300

True or False: The highest rates of isostatic adjustment are in Canada

True. In the area of Hudsons Bay which was the centre of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last glacial maximum

300

This is the geological source of diamond deposits

Kimberlite (magma) pipes

400
What are two reasons not to live in Richmond or Ladner.
What is in the event of an earthquake, liquefaction and tsunamis are serious hazards.
400
Name the two types of surface waves and their direction of motion.
What is (1) Love Waves which move side-to-side (like a snake), (2) Raleigh Waves which move up-and-down (like ocean waves)
400
_________ is the energy source driving the hydrologic cycle.
What is the sun
400

True or false: coal and diamonds are polymorphs

True

400
True or False: vein deposits develop through placer concentration of minerals.
What is False (due to hydrothermal fluids)
500
In BC, subduction zone earthquakes will be associated with the interactions of what 2 plates.
What is Juan de Fuca plate and North American Plate
500
What are the 3 components of stream load?
What is (1) bed load, (2) suspended load, (3) dissolved load
500
What thickness of ice was on top of present-day Penticton during the last glacial maximum?

Approx 2000m

500

What type of weathering is observed at the Coquihalla Summit, where rock layers appear to be peeling off like an onion

Exfoliation

500
What is a local example of a mineral deposit that originated through groundwater transport?
What is uranium in the Summerland area.