ELS Flashcards

1
Q

Heat transfer is project by the sun says going into the Earth

A

Radiation

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Movement of a mass, rock, debris,or earth down a slope

A

Landslide

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

3Rs

A

Reduce,reuse, recycle

•Reducing is cutting back on the amount of trash we make
•Reusing is finding a new way to use.
•Recycling is using trash to remake news goods

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

3Rs

A

Reduce,reuse, recycle

•Reducing is cutting back on the amount of trash we make
•Reusing is finding a new way to use.
•Recycling is using trash to remake news goods

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Example of necessary for earth processes.

A

Ironing of clothing,ice melting in the hand.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

These Rock tend to go upward (shallower level)

A

Decompression melting

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Formation and movement of magma under the easrtgs crust.

A

•the Rock tend to go upward and pressure reduce
•deffirent minerals in rock melt
•heat Is transferred

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Process under the Earth crust/movement of the magma occur

A

Magmatism

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

The magma present in the lower crust

A

Partial melting

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

The change that take place within a body rock

A

METAMORPHISM

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Determine earth weather and climate

A

METEOROLOGY

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Lithosphere make up the solid portion of the earth

A

GEOSPHERE

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Includes water that is on the surface of the planet

A

Hydrosphere

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

The global ecological systems interacting with each other

A

Biosphere

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

A thin layer of solid rock that make up the outermost part of the earth

A

crust

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

It where asthenosphere located

17
Q

The study of the universe and the heavenly bodies

18
Q

The more the silica is has the lighter the color is

A

Amount silica affect the color igneous rock

19
Q

Eroded igneous or metamorphic rock

A

Nonconformity

20
Q

Eroded horizontal sedimentary layer

A

Disconformity

21
Q

Sedimentary rock formed with invisible gap in time between them due to erosion of order unit or non deposition

A

Paraconformities

22
Q

It is used to arrange geological events

A

Relative dating

23
Q

Refers to use of animal bone to determine the age

A

Faunal dating

24
Q

It is any dating technique that tells us how old a rock epicomen is in years

A

Absolute dating

25
A dangerous phenomenon substance human activity or condition that may cause loss of life
Hazard
26
It is participatable shaking of the surface of the
Earthquake
27
The primary cause of earthquake damage to man-made structure
Ground shaking or ground motion
28
The primary cause of earthquake damage to man-made structure
Ground shaking or ground motion
29
Surface rupture is an offset of ground surface wind fault rupture extended the earth's
Ground or surface rupture
30
Soil liquefaction is a phenomenon in which the straight and stiffness of a soil
Liquefaction
31
This may be due to downward vertical displacement
Subsidence
32
Is also known as seismic sea wave is a series of wave in water body
Tsunami
33
When lava and gas are released from a volcano sometimes explosively
Volcanic eruption
34
Volcanic explosion can proper rock fragment
Ballistic projectiles
35
Magma contains dissolved gases
Volcanic gases
36
Is an overflow of water (or rarely the other fluids)
Flood
37
The inner core is extremely dense that made up of solid iron and is intensety
Inner core and outer core
38
Movement of plates leads to the formation of folds faults trenches rift walley and mountain range
✓Divergent plate boundaries, which are associated with the formation of rift valleys ✓Convergent plate boundaries move toward one another, pushing into one another ✓Transform boundaries involve two plate sliding past one another
39
Sedimentary layer deposited over angular (tilted or folded)rock
Angular unconformity