Geology 209 - Powerpoint 1 Quiz

Give two example of geoscience damages

What are the five techniques used for relative time dating?

If layers are not horizontal they have been ______ sometimes after ____

What does the principle of superpositions state?

Dikes are older or younger than the rocks it has cross-cut?

What is mappable rock unit with distinctive mineralogical, structural, or textural characteristics

The layers of ______ rock contain fossils in a ____ sequence. Species only evolve _____, and this is how you get their _____ age at a location.

What is true about fossils

List the 5 advantages to index fossils (think GREOA)

What are gaps/missing time in the rock record called?

What are the different types of conformities

What are the steps in an angular unconformity?

What is metamorphic or igneous rocks underneath sedimentary strata

When sedimentary rocks above and below are parallel it is what type of conformity?

What two eras are the most expansive?

What two periods are the least expansive?

Precambrian eon consists of what two times?

What age is for period between formation of Earth and oldest known rocks; primitive bacteria

What period is for multi-cellular organisms

The precambrian period covers about what percent of geologic time?

The oldest known minerals zircon were found in ____ and found to be ______ billion years old.

Many meteorites have an age of ____ billion years old

Lunar soils have dates of _____ billion years old

The inner core is ____ while the outer core is _____(states)

The earth's crust is made up of mostly ____ and ____, while the entire earth is made up of mostly _____ and ____.

Compressional waves are also known as

Secondary (shear waves) are also known as

True or false, s waves can travel thorough liquid iron in earths other core?

What is the boundary between crust and mantle called

The mantle beneath the crust is ____ rock

The mohorovicic discontinuity is ____ over short term and ___ over long term(

What is Gravitational force pushing down is balanced by buoyancy force pushing upward

About how thick is the Earth’s mantle?

What are the two main elements in the nebula?

How did the heaviest elements form?

Earth was finished forming about __________ Ma after the sun formed.

List three contributing factors that helped to heat the early Earth.

How did the early atmosphere form?

By _________, enough rainwater had accumulation to form a global ocean.

What supports the impact hypothesis?

Maria means ___ ___ in ___ basins, and are darker spots on the earth, while the rest is considered _____ _____.

What is used for the moon's geological relative time?

Cratered highlands must be ____ because they’ve absorbed more impacts

What are three absolute geological time dating for the moon?

The surface of venus has ____ ___ (hot spots) that arch the crust ____

True or false, there is presence of plates on venus

The entire venues crust is ____

Entire surface is ___ million years old

Fe2O3 is known as ___, as well as ___, and form in the presence of liquid ____

Volcanism on mars ___km high and ___km wide.

Polar caps are made of ______ water and ____

What is the scientific method?

Which of these is not considered to be a part of the scientific model?

What is A tentative explanation based on data collected by experiment and observation

A hypothesis that has survived repeated testing and examination and still holds up. Established set of ideas that can be used to make predictions and create models.

Considered absolutely correct (eg. Laws of gravity, thermodynamics, motion)

True or false; proof has meaning in the scientific process

True or false; Science is always open to reassessment (disproving)

The term “Science” comes from the Latin scientia, which means “having _____________”

What does geo and logos mean?

What is the definition of geology?

List the sections of the earth starting from the centre

What sections are responsible for the climate system?

What three sections are responsible for the plate tectonics section?

What sections are responsible for the geodynamic system?

Prediction of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, petroleum exploration, etc.

Exploring groundwater reserves and managing drinking water supplies, etc.

Investigating the composition of minerals in rocks

Plate tectonics, mapping, petroleum exploration, ore deposits etc.

Assessment of soil contamination, pollution, mineral exploration, climate change etc....

What is the history of life and ancient life; change through time study called?

What do geoscientists need?

0.000000014mm is approx the size of an ____ and is a ___ scale.

____ is mm to cm, and is a ____ scale.

Cm to m / spatial scale = ____

Mountain is ________

Continent?

What is the radius of the earth?

What is the approx age of the earth?

What is the approx time for atlantic ocean to open?

Approx. Age of the Rocky Mountains

Humans evolved around how many million years ago?

Last big glaciation in Calgary

Eruption of Mt. St. Helens lasted how many minutes long?

True or false, the geological record in the present has more glaciation?

True or false, the geological record is complete

Who is the founder of modern geology?

What idea did hutton base his central findings on?

What is true about Hutton's ideas?

Which of these is not dating of relative time?