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CHAPTER 12: EARTHS HISTORY AND INTERIOR Flashcards

1
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How old is earth?

A

4.6 billion years

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2
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How old is the universe?

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13.8 billion years

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3
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What is the anthropocene?

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age of human transformation of earths physical systems

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When did the anthropocene start?

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1800’s, industrial revolution

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5
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Why did CO2 levels in the atmosphere rise?

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Burnt coal and petroleum for energy

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6
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Why are sea levels rising and becoming more acidic?

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Increase in CO2

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7
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How much has the sea level risen in the last century?

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20cms

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8
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How much of earths freshwater run off is used by people?

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1/2

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9
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How much of mammal biomass is made up of people and domesticated animals?

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90%, only 0.1% 10000 years ago

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10
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What is a light year?

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How long it takes to move at a speed of 300km per second

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11
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Edmun Hummel proposed which theory?

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Expanding Universe Theory

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12
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Galaxies, stars and planets are all formed from?

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Dust and gas

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13
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Solar System formed how many years ago and from what?

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4.5-5 billion years by a nebula

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14
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How many planets revolve around the sun?

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8

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15
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What orbits to the planets move around the sun in?

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Elliptical orbits

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16
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How many planets is earth away from the sun?

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3

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17
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What was earths atmosphere formed from?

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Gases emitted by volcanoes

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18
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How did oceans form?

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Water vapour and volcanic emissions condensed out of atmosphere

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19
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Example of a photosynthetic organism

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Cyanobacteria

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20
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What are stromatolites?

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Colonies of cyanobacteria, earliest form of life in fossil records

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21
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What is the Great Oxidation Event?

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oxygen concentration increased, 2.4 billion years, ozonosphere formed

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22
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What makes life possible on earth?

A

Ozonosphere blocking UV Rays

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23
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Dinosaurs existed how many years ago?

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240 million years

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24
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modern humans existed how many years ago?

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200, 000 years ago

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25
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What are Eons?

A

largest division of time scales

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26
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What eon are we currently living in?

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Phamnezobnic eon

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27
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What era are we living in?

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Cenozoic era

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28
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What period are we living in?

A

Quaternary period

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29
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Which Eon accounts for 85% of geologic time?

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Precambrian Eeon

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30
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Oldest rocks found on earth are how old?

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4 million years old

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31
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What Epoch are we currently living in?

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Holocene or anthropocene

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32
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What is the idea of uniformitarianism

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present is the key to the past, processes that have shaped landscapes of the past are the same and will shape the future

33
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Principle of Superposition

A

oldest rock layer at bottom

34
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Hutton’s Unconformities is located at

A

Siccar Point

35
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define unconformity

A

an ancient land surface representing a time gap in the normal geological sequence

36
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2 Ways scientists date materials

A
  1. Relative Age

2. Absolute Age

37
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What is relative age?

A

compare age of one object or event with another without specifying how old either is, the order of eevnts

38
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What is absolute age?

A

specifies age in years!

39
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2 techniques used to determine absolute age

A

Dendrochronology

Radiometric Dating

40
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What is dendrochronology

A

tree ring analysis

41
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What is radiometric dating?

A

assigning ages to material based on radioactive half-life of unstable elements in those materials

42
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Which energy is sustainable and renewable?

A

Geothermal energy

43
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What are xenoliths?

A

rocks elevated to earths surface via magma

44
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Most of what we know about earths interior comes from analysis of…

A

seismic waves

45
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What is a seismic wave?

A

energy released by earthquakes that travel through the earths interior

46
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What is an earthquake?

A

sudden shaking of the ground caused by movements of earths crust

47
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What are surface waves?

A

Travel along/near surface
Cauuses damage
R & L waves

48
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What are body waves?

A

Pass through earth

P and S waves

49
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2 types of earthquake waves

A

Surface and Body Waves

50
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Which earthquake wave can travel through the core?

51
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what is the geothermal gradient?

A

earths interior increasing with depth

52
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how hot is earths core?

53
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4 FACTORS THAT MAKE EARTH HOT INTERIOR

A

Friction
Asteroid bombardment
Tidal Forces
Radioactivity

54
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3 Principle lawyers of earths interior

A

CORE
MANTEL
LITHOSPHERE

55
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What is the radius of the earth?

56
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Earths inner core is solid or liquid?

57
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Which elements are found in earths inner core

A

Iron and Nickel

58
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What keeps the inner core solid?

A

compressional forces

59
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Circulating liquid metal which generates earths magnetic field is located in the…

A

outer core

60
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What is a dynamo?

A

a device converting the energy of motion to that of an electric current

61
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What is the magnetosphere?

A

Protects earth from solar wind

62
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How many km does magnetic north move each year?

63
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Temperature of earths mantle

64
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Which portion of the mantle is solid rock, but slowly deforms and flows in great circular convection loops

A

Lower Mantle

65
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Which portion of the mantle is in solid state, but nearer melting and weak and easily deformed?

A

Asthenosphere

66
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Which portion of the mantle is rigid and brittle

A

Lithospheric Manleys

67
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Layers of the mantle from bottom to top

A

Lower Mantle, asthenosphere, lithospheric mantle

68
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What 2 portions layers are apart of the upper mantle?

A

Lithosphere and Asthenosphere

69
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2 types of earth crusts

A

Continental crust

Oceanic crust

70
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Which crust is composed of mainly granite (forms from magma)

A

Continental crust

71
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Which crust forms from basalt (forms from lava)

A

Oceanic crust

72
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What is the Moho?

A

Boundary that separates the crust from the lithosphere mantle

73
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Moho is deepest under which crust?

A

Continental crust, 70km

74
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Moho is shallowest under which crust?

A

Oceanic crust, 7km

75
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The lithosphere is broken into how many major plates?

76
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What is diastrophism

A

plates buckle into mountains, bend and warp into hills and break causing earthquakes

77
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What moves the plates?

A

Convection

78
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Which plate is the largest?

A

Pacific Plate

79
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Which plate are we on?

A

North American Plate

GEOG 1290 (6 decks)

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