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The remains or traces of living things found in sedimentary rock.
What are fossils?
100
Geologists rely on indirect evidence such as __________ to study the Earth's interior.
What are seismic waves?
100
This scientist developed the idea of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
100
__________ is a force that causes rock to change its shape and/or volume.
What is stress.
100
Molten material found inside the earth.
What is magma?
200
The specific number of years since a rock has formed.
What is absolute age?
200
Which layer of the Earth is the most dense?
What is the inner core?
200
What did Alfred Wegener call the super-continent that was once together and broke apart? (Spelling counts!)
What is Pangaea?
200
The three forms of stress that affect rocks are ______, _____ and _____.
What are tension, compression and shearing?
200
The three common volcanic landforms we discussed in class are:
What are cinder cone, shield and composite volcanoes?
300
A record of life forms and geologic events in Earth’s history.
What is the geologic time scale?
300
These three properties all increase the deeper you go into the Earth.
What is pressure, temperature and density?
300
What are two pieces of evidence Wegener used to support his theory?
Any two: continents fit like puzzle, matching rock layers/mountain ranges/coal fields, glacial scratches, fossil evidence
300
A __________ occurs when the hanging wall moves up the foot wall.
What is reverse fault?
300
The volcanic belt that surrounds the rim of the Pacific Ocean.
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
400
A hollow area in sediment in the shape of an organism.
What is a mold?
400
Tectonic Plates make up the Earth's __________ and __________.
What is the crust and lithosphere?
400
These two factors cause the tectonic plates of the Earth to move.
What is subduction of plates and convection in the mantle.
400
This type of stress causes a strike slip fault.
What is shearing?
400
The Hawaiian Islands have formed as a result of this.
What is a hot spot?
500
When new rock layers meet older rock layers and create a “gap” in the geologic record.
What is an unconformity?
500
On average, the most a tectonic plate can move in a year is _____ cm. A. 5 cm, B. 10 cm, C. 25 cm, D. 50 cm.
What is 25 cm?
500
The american geologist who supported Wegener with his idea of sea floor spreading was __________.
Who is Harry Hess?
500
The difference in __________ times of P and S waves could help people get to safety during an earthquake.
What are "arrival" times?
500
This is Mr. Reyes's favorite volcanic mountain (I also skied on it).
What is Mt. Hood?