What is geomorphology?

Question 1

What is geomorphology?

Answer 1

The study of the characteristics, origin, and development of landforms.

Question 2

Geomorphology studies the processes of what?

Answer 2

Processes that shape the landscape.

Question 3

The internal structure of the earth is made up of what two crusts?

Answer 3

Oceanic and continental.

Question 4

Oceanic crust is what % of earth’s crust and how many ~ thick?

Answer 4

75% and 3-5 ~ thick.

Question 5

Continental crust is what % of earth’s crust and how many ~ thick?

Answer 5

25% and 20-40 ~ thick.

Question 6

What are the three different rock classifications covered in class?

Answer 6

Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic.

Question 7

What is an igneous rock?

Answer 7

Rocks formed from cooled magma.

Question 8

Igneous rocks have what?

Answer 8

Crystalline strutures.

Question 9

Two types of igneous rock covered in class is?

Answer 9

Extrusive and intrusive.

Question 10

Igneous extrusive?

Answer 10

Extrudes onto earth’s surface, quick cooling, small crystals.

Question 11

Most common igneous extrusive?

Answer 11

Basalt (dark, dense, heavy, iron)

Question 12

Majority of the oceanic crust is what?

Answer 12

Basalt.

Question 13

Igneous intrusive?

Answer 13

cools below the ground, called the mother rock or country rock, slow cooling, large crystals.

Question 14

What is the most common igneous intrusive rock?

Answer 14

Granite.

Question 15

What is the majority of cont. crust?

Answer 15

Granite.

Question 16

What is sedimentary rock?

Answer 16

compacted ad cemented earth materials, organic remains, or chemical precipitates.

Question 17

These sedimentary rock earth materials are also called what?

Answer 17

Clastic rocks.

Question 18

Common sedimentary cementing agents are?

Answer 18

CaCO3, SiO2, Fe2O3.

Question 19

What are three clastic rocks covered in class?

Answer 19

Conglomerate, sandstone, shale.

Question 20

Clastic sizes from latest to smallest?

Answer 20

Boulders, cobble, pebble, sand, silt, clay.

Question 21

What’s organic?

Answer 21

Formed from the remains of organisms.

Question 22

What is a chemical precipitate?

Answer 22

A minerals that has been dissolved and precipitated from solution “evaporites” ex.) table salt.

Question 23

What is metamorphic rock?

Answer 23

Rocks that at one point have been igneous or sedimentary that have been altered by heat and or pressure.

Question 24

Sandstone turns into what?

Answer 24

Quartzite

Question 25

Shale turns into what?

Answer 25

Schist

Question 26

Limestone turns into what?

Answer 26

Marble.

Question 27

Granite turns into what?

Answer 27

Gneiss.

Question 28

Sedimentary rocks are deposited in horizontal layers called what? and what’s the order of layers?

Answer 28

Strata.

Schist, sandstone, limestone, shale, sandstone.