Plate Tectonics
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So this guy walks out with his HCl…
Rocks
Processes
100
This is the location of several volcanoes and earthquakes that circle the pacific ocean
What is the Ring of Fire
100
Air pressure is less or more at higher elevations?
Air pressure is lower or less at higher elevations.
100
What did one tectonic plate say to the other when he bumped into him?
Sorry, my fault
100
A geologist finds a rock in the field. They put HCl on the rock and it fizzes. This is evidence that the rock is?…
sedimentary rock with Calcite.
100
How does faster moving water affect erosion as compared to slower moving water?
fast water moves more sediment causing more erosion and slow water allows the sediment to deposit (deposition)
200
you are least likely to experience an earthquake at
a) any random location on earth
b) along a volcanic island chain
c) in a subduction zone
d) along a crustal plate
a) any random location on earth
200
Wind blows from _______ pressure to _________ low pressure areas.
High to low
200
How to tectonic plates greet each other?
They shake lands.
200
A geologist finds a rock layer that is tilted. The fossils in the rock include oyster shells and brachiopods. It fizzes when acid is dropped on it. What principle tells us that the rock layer was originally horizontal?
Principle of original horizontality.
200
What order did these layers form in? Which formed first, then…
The full sequence of events is:
1. Layer C formed.
2. Layer B formed.
3. Layer A formed.
4. After layers A-B-C were present, intrusion D cut across all three.
5. Fault E formed, shifting rocks A through C and intrusion D.
300
What causes plates to move:
a) earthquakes and volcanoes
b) thermal energy from the core
c) sinking of lithosphere into asthenosphere
d) plate interactions
c) sinking of lithosphere into the asthenosphere
300
Describe a convection current
matter in one area is more dense so it sinks. As it warms up it becomes less dense and rises. As it rises it cools off and becomes more dense and sinks.
300
Where does a chemistry teacher put dirty dishes?
In the zinc
300
A geologist finds a rock layer that is tilted. The fossils in the rock include oyster shells and brachiopods. It fizzes when acid is dropped on it. Even though the geologist found this rock in a desert, the shells tell us that…?
The environment was previously an ocean.
300
What is a process that helps to form soil?
Erosion, weathering
400
Scientists have discovered that Mount Everest is growing taller by about 2 centimeters per year. What is a possible explanation for this? Think plate tectonics…
The two plates are converging and pushing the mountains upward.
400
Describe the parts of the water cycle AND explain a limit to this model. 
Condensation, precipitation, runoff, evaporation. There are much more steps a water droplet can take and it might not make it through all these steps.
400
What is the Earth’s Core’s favorite music?
Heavy metal
400
Rocks that form from layers of sediment building on top of each other are called
Sedimentary rocks
400
What is the name of the process where some areas erode faster than others leaving interesting land formations. 
Differential erosion
500
Mountains of the British Isles and the Caledonian Mountains of Scandinavia have the same rock composition as the Appalachian Mountains. What does this tell us about the story of the past geology of this part of Earth?
They were connected before and the plates have moved apart.
500
A student is looking at a weather report that says this will be the coldest winter in several years.
The student says, “I don’t understand, I thought we were in the middle of global warming?”
Explain why it is important to know the difference between weather and climate when discussing global warming.
Weather is what is happening in the atmosphere at a given point in time, like right now. Climate is looking for patterns over a longer period of time and requires data collection.
500
Why are there fish at the bottom of the sea?
Because they dropped out of school.
500
What words would you use to describe a rock that cooled quickly forming very small crystals?
Extrusive igneous
500
Then name of the principle that Earth processes happen the same today as they have always happened on Earth.
Principle of Uniformitarianism