Chapter 1-6 Review

Question 1

Dependent variable

Answer 1

The variable observed to determine the results of an experiment

Question 2

Crevasses

Answer 2

Deep crack or fissure that develop on the surface of a glacier

Question 3

The main agent of chemical weathering

Answer 3

Water

Question 4

Drumlin

Answer 4

A hill from a glaciers overruns old till

Question 5

Anomaly

Answer 5

A fossil that is found in the wrong time period of a strata layer

Question 6

Continental Slope

Answer 6

a sharp drop off after the sandy underwater plain

Question 7

Polystrate fossil

Answer 7

A fossil found through multiple strata

Question 8

Luster

Answer 8

How light is reflected from a mineral

Question 9

Modified Mercalli Scale

Answer 9

Earthquake scale that is based on the effects on people and structures

Question 10

Theistic evolution

Answer 10

The attempt to combine evolution and the Bible

Question 11

Cro-Magnon man

Answer 11

Supposed missing link, however was a “modern” human

Question 12

The type of dune that has several out reaching arms

Answer 12

Star dune

Question 13

What was responsible for most of the sediment rock layers?

Answer 13

The Flood

Question 14

Exfoliation

Answer 14

The breaking away or peeling of rock into layers

Question 15

Karst regions

Answer 15

Vast areas of exposed limestone

Question 16

Gravity corer

Answer 16

Brings up sediment samples

Question 17

Strip Cropping

Answer 17

Planting alternating strips of different crops

Question 18

The appearance of twin underwater mountain ranges

Answer 18

Rift

Question 19

Load

Answer 19

Material carried by a stream

Question 20

Mantle

Answer 20

The middle layer of the earth

Question 21

The two factors that determine the density of seawater?

Answer 21

Salinity and temperature

Question 22

Metamorphic rock

Answer 22

Rocks that have been “cooked” into something else

Question 23

Atoll

Answer 23

A coral-reef island that grows around an underwater volcano

Question 24

Uniformity

Answer 24

Earth’s natural laws have EXISTED all the time

Question 25

Turbidity current

Answer 25

Ocean current that is mixed with mud or silt

Question 26

A easy to maneuver robot connect to a support ship by cables

Answer 26

ROV

Question 27

Sodium Chloride

Answer 27

The main salt in the ocean?

Question 28

Hadal zone

Answer 28

A point in the sea deeper than 6000m

Question 29

Tsunami

Answer 29

Large wave caused by underwater disturbance

Question 30

A large valley in the deep ocean floor

Answer 30

Trench

Question 31

How does the ocean get its color?

Answer 31

That is its natural color

Question 32

Why does ice float?

Answer 32

It is less dense than water

Question 33

Sonar

Answer 33

Sound waves underwater used for navigation

Question 34

Upwelling

Answer 34

Occurs when a breeze blows water away from the coast

Question 35

Expendable bathythermograph

Answer 35

Takes temperatures at various depths and sends info back

Question 36

The mass of foaming water formed when waves wash up onto the beach?

Answer 36

Surf

Question 37

A wave that gets too tall and topples over

Answer 37

Breaker

Question 38

Gyer

Answer 38

The circular path that currents follow

Question 39

Radiometric Dating

Answer 39

used to assign absolute ages to rocks

Question 40

Challenger Deep or Mariana Trench

Answer 40

The deepest know point in the ocean

Question 41

Cranial capacity

Answer 41

The volume of the portion of the skull that holds the brain

Question 42

Soil creep

Answer 42

The slow downhill movement of soil

Question 43

Diurnal tide

Answer 43

Only one high tide and one low tide each day

Question 44

Top soil

Answer 44

The top layer of soil

Question 45

Natural selection

Answer 45

The strongest and fittest survive

Question 46

Obsidian

Answer 46

Glass-like igneous rock that breaks with sharp edges (Think arrowhead)

Question 47

The largest group of minerals, composes 90% of crust?

Answer 47

Silicates

Question 48

Composite volcano

Answer 48

alternating layers of lava and ash

Question 49

Thrust fault

Answer 49

The rocks on one side are shoved on top of the other side

Question 50

Repeatability

Answer 50

Duplicating an experiment multiple times

Question 51

Seymoria

Answer 51

The supposed like of amphibians and reptiles

Question 52

Conglomerate rock

Answer 52

consists of pebbles in hardened sand

Question 53

Uranium

Answer 53

Fuel for nuclear reactors

Question 54

Aftershocks

Answer 54

Small earthquakes after a main earthquake

Question 55

A blue gemstone made of corundum with iron or titanium

Answer 55

Sapphire

Question 56

Levee

Answer 56

Natural ridges formed from sediments along the edge of a river channel

Question 57

Index fossil

Answer 57

used to date rock layers

Question 58

Kilopascal

Answer 58

used to measure hydrostatic pressure

Question 59

What are large holes formed when huge chunks of melting glacial ice lodged in sediments

Answer 59

Kettle

Question 60

Uniformitarianism

Answer 60

The present is the key to the past

Question 61

Rip current

Answer 61

Dangerous current that drags water through a break in a sandbar

Question 62

What is the process of changing a slope into stairs

Answer 62

Terracing