Chapter 1

Question 1

What are the two energy sources that influence the earth?

Answer 1

Internal and External Energy Sources

Question 2

Describe the 5 steps of the scientific process.

Answer 2

1.Observations 2.Hypothesis 3.Predictions 4.Tests 5.Law

Question 3

What is a Natural Disaster compared to Natural Catastrophe?

Answer 3

A Disaster is termed as a sudden or great misfotune, a calamity. A Catastrophe is termed as a widespread disasterthat subverts the system of things; a disastrous end.

Question 4

Describe the Qualitative scale for Disasters and Catastrophes.

Answer 4

1.Local Disaster (a significant disruption contained to local society and communities) 2.Regional Disaster (a disruption to something greater than a single city, widerspread issues) 3. Regional Catastrophe (Regional Disaster with death and numerous injuries to regional population) 4. Global Catastrophe (magnitude of the disruption is felt on a global scale, death of entire species is common)

Question 5

What year was there an earthquake in Mexico city?

Answer 5

1985

Question 6

What year was there an earthquake in Tangshan, killing 250,000 people (potentially 400,000)

Answer 6

1976

Question 7

What date was the “boxing day” Tsunami in the Indian Ocean? How many people died? What kind of catastrophe was it?

Answer 7

1.December 26th, 2004 2.230,000 3. Global Catastrophe

Question 8

The large asteroid that “PUNCHED THROUGH EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE” 65.5 million years ago ERADICATED what percentage of all species on earth?

Answer 8

70%

Question 9

What is the population bomb and what are it’s implications for the increasingly devasting effect of disasters?

Answer 9

The population bomb is the increasing human population and thus it implies that the impact that disasters have on mankind are more a result of HUMAN NATURE as opposed to MOTHER NATURE.

Question 10

What percentage of all species was wiped out by the MOTHER OF ALL EXTINCTIONS event 251 million years ago?

Answer 10

96% of ALL SPECIES!!! WOAH!!!

Question 11

Who was Danish and also the first person to try and understand the Earth’s surface?

Answer 11

Nicolaus Steno

Question 12

Who was the father of Modern Geology?

Answer 12

James Hutton

Question 13

Who was the father of stratigraphy?

Answer 13

Nicolaus Steno

Question 14

What is stratigraphy?

Answer 14

The study of the layers of rocks and sediments.

Question 15

Who was Thomas Burnet? Whose work did he create a shadow over and how?

Answer 15

He was an anglican clergyman, wrote work with a literal interpretation of the bible’s creation, created a shadow over the more valid work of Steno because Burnet wrote in english and Steno wrote in Latin

Question 16

According to ARCHIBISHOP USSHER when did the earth come into existence?

Answer 16

October 22nd 4004 B.C.

Question 17

Describe the beliefs of a Carastrophist.

Answer 17

1.The history of the earth was a record of unique events 2.Thee was no such thing as natural evolution 3.There was no possible way to predict nature

Question 18

Who championed Catastrophism?

Answer 18

Baron Georges Cuvier

Question 19

Who first recognized Uniformitarianism?

Answer 19

Leonardi Da Vinci

Question 20

Who first put an application to geology with Uniformitarianism?

Answer 20

Nicolaus Steno

Question 21

Who first formulated and named Uniformitarianism?

Answer 21

James Hutton

Question 22

Who wrote “Principles of Geology” and championed Hutton’s hypotheses?

Answer 22

Charles Lyell