Accumulative Final Flashcards
(38 cards)
What type of volcano is made from lava flows?
Shield volcanoes.
What type of volcano has a cone shape with steep slopes?
This type of volcano is a composite cone or stratovolcano.
What type of volcano is short lived and shoots “jets” of lava?
This type of volcano is a scoria cone.
This type of eruption flows very fast and consists of rocks, toxic gas, and ash…
Pyroclastic.
What type of eruption are high in viscosity with a felsic composition?
This is an explosive eruption.
What type of eruption is high in temperature and low in viscosity?
These are the characteristics of an effusive eruption.
What is the process near earth’s surface that causes rocks and minerals to break down?
This process is called Weathering.
What is the process of which piece of rock are moved and deposited elsewhere?
This process is called Erosion.
What are the remains left by life in rocks called?
This is called bioturbation.
What is the term for what a rock was originally?
Protolith
How old is our planet?
The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
What is an index fossil?
An index fossil is useful for dating certain periods of time.
What’s the difference between a renewable and non-renewable resource? Give one example for each.
Renewable resources can be replaced (or replace themselves) on a human time scale (trees). Non-renewable resources are not replaceable on a human time scale (oil).
What is a fossil fuel/hydrocarbon? Give an example.
Biomass that have been buried and preserved underground. An example would be coal or oil.
What is ore?
Rocks with a high enough concentration of a valuable metal to be profitable.
What is oil shale?
Fine grained sedimentary rock which oil can be extracted.
What is discharge?
The volume of water flowing through a given cross section during a given time.
What is Bathymetry?
The measurement of ocean depths.
What is an aquifer?
Bodies of porous and permeable rock or sediment that are saturated with water.
What is an alluvial fan?
A fan-shaped mass of alluvium deposited as the flow of a river decreases in velocity.
Name one of the two types of continental margins?
Active margins and passive margins.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The phenomena that changes the tilt of earth’s axis to form the seasons.
What are the three main types of greenhouse gases?
Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
How does urbanization impact flooding?
Urbanization impacts flooding by loosening soil and plants making it harder for water to permeate.
