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This is where the oldest rocks can be found.
What is further down in Earth?
This is the correct order of the divisions of time of the Geological Time Scale-largest to smallest.
What are eons, eras, and periods?
This is how long it takes soil to form.
What are thousands of years?
These are the components that make up soil.
What are water, air, weathered rock, mineral material and organic matter?
Acids and oxygen cause this.
What is chemical weathering?
This is a calm area with little to no wind
What are Doldrums?
This is what happens to the air molecules as you go higher up in altitude.
What is there are less molecules?
The layers of the atmosphere are distinguished by their_____.
What is composition, altitude, and temperature?
__________ is the atmospheric conditions, along with short-term changes, of a certain place at a certain time.
What is weather?
Name the layers of the atmosphere and something that occurs in each layer.
Troposphere: surface-weather, airplane fly Stratosphere: ozone layer, weather balloons Mesosphere: meteors Thermosphere: satellites Ionosphere: Auroras, radio waves Exosphere: space-no definite end
This often forms a mountain when layers of lava and volcanic ash erupt and build up.
What are volcanoes?
This forms after an eruption when the top of a volcano collapses down.
What is a caldera?
This is the force that causes the tectonic plates to move.
What are convection currents in the mantle?
This states that continents have slowly moved to their current locations.
What is the hypothesis of continental drift?
This is the evidence that Wegener provided to support the theory of plate tectonics.
What are that the continents fit together like a puzzle, same fossils can be found on 2 different continents, same types of geological formations can be found on 2 different continents?
______ is caused by Earth’s rotation
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This happens when eroded sediment slows down or stops moving.
What is its deposited in a new location?
The ozone layer can be found in the ________.
What is the stratosphere?
Frost wedging is an example of __________.
What is physical weathering?
This is an explanation of what thunder is.
What is the sound that lightning makes?
This is the definition of a front.
What is a boundary between cold and warm air masses?
Increases in population are evidence of climate change. True or False: Increases in population are evidence of climate change.
What is false?
_________ is the weather of a region averaged over a long period of time.
What is climate?
True or False: It snows about 30 inches of snow a year in this area is a description of a climate.
What is True?
Explain the difference between absolute age dating and relative age dating. Give a specific example.
Absolute: the fossil is between 100-200 million years old What is absolute-age dating uses radio active decay and relative-age dating compares the layers of rock above and below the fossil Absolute: the fossil is between 100-200 million years old Relative: the fossil is older than the rock above it?