Geosphere Flashcards
(106 cards)
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Solid earth, not static
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Geosphere
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constant state of motion
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surface
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composition
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structure
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rocky outmost layer, most abundnat
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crust
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types of crust
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Continental oceanic
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Continental
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Thucj but less dense, 1/3 of earth. silicate
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Oceanic
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Thinner but denze. basalt, silicate and magnesium
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Thickest, middle part, 84% of earyj
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Mantle
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rigid and solid, some regions are malleable
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Upper
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where lithosphere and asthenosphere is
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Upper mantle
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denser and thicker mantle
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Lower mantle
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solid part
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Lithosphere
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dense, plasticity, causes plate tec
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Asthenosphere
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center, has iron and nickel
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Core
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Liquid iron and nickel, very low viscocity, site of convection
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Outer
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hot, dense ball of mostly solid iron
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Inner core
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Layer boyndaries
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Mohorovicic, Repetty, Gutenberg, Lehmann
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Crust and upper mantle discontinuity
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Mohorovicic
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Upper and lower mantle
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Repetti
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mantle core discontinuuty
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Gutenberg
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inner corr and oyter core
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Lehmann
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studt of rocks
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Petrology
23
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compacted for years and years
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Sedimentary
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types of sedimentary rocks
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Clastic, Chemical, Organic
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organic matter
organic
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dissolved chemicals
chemical
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charchoal
clastic
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made from volcanic activity
Igneous rocks
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types of igneaous rocks
intrusive extrusive
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slowly
intrusive or plutonic
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volcanic rocks, cool quickly like granites and obsedian
extrusive
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transformation of other rocks
Metamorphic rocks or metamorphism
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metamorphic rocks types
foliated or non-foliated
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has layers
Foliated
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no layers or lines
non-foliated
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comes out from rocks surface
Igneous
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naturally occuring is norganif solid materials
Minerals
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color of mineral when powdered
streak
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measurement of strength
Hardness
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Property of rock breaks to plat plane
Cleavage
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break along irregular surfaces
Fracture
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shineness
Luster
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ratio of weight the mineral gas to equal water
Specific gravity
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less than specifuc gravity
Floats
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more than
Sinks
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identify some minerals thru its taste
Taste
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Process that deforms earths crust
Tectonics
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move around on top of asthenosphere
Tectonic plate
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1912bby alfred wegener
Continental druft theory
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continent original
Pangaea
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2 parts of Pangaea
Laurasia and Gondwana
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Evidences of Continental Drifttheory
Puzzle piece, Presence of Fossils, Patterns of Land, Rocks of same age across
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Types of tectonic plate movement
Divergent, Convergent, Transform
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moves away
Divergent
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makes faylt or mid ocean ridges and seafloor spreading
Divergent
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move towards
Convergent
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mountain ridges
Continental
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Plates slide
Transform boundary
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earthquake
transform
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makes mountain ridges and levels the land
Continental-Continental
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the older goes down, trenches
Oceanic oceanic
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oceanic subducts
continental-oceanic
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Where do tsubamis happen
convergent and divergent boundaries
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mechanical waves
Seismic waves
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Types of Seismic waves
Body waves and Surface waves
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arrives before surface waves
Body waves
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two types of body waves
primary wave and secondary wave
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fastest. fast in solid slow in liquid
P wave
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cannot travel thru liquid
S wave
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On earths surface
Surface waves
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horizontal and vertical plane
Rayleigh wave
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back and forth vibration
Love wave
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anoung of damage
Intensity
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strength of earthquake
Magnitude
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buildings should be earthquake proof
Building code of the PH
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Geomorphic processes types
Exogenous/Graduational and Degradation processes
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breakage of rocks
Weathering
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breakage of soul
soil erosion
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avalanche, mud slides
Mass wasting
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dysortition
Aggradation process
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Endogenous process
create
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deformation
Diastrophic Forces
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Folding vs faulting
tension and compressional
makes mountains and ruptures
folding has twi parts anticline syncline
hinahati anv lupa
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Faulting types
normal reverse strikeslip
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Eperiogrnic proceesses
warping of large crust. vertical movements
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eruption of molten rock onto earths surface
Volcanism
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geo hazards of volcanism
Earthquake, Ground rupture, Liquefaction, Landslides, Tsunami
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where movement of body wave starts
Hypocenter or focys
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above the ground, surface waves hit
Epicenter
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where the epicenter is
Meeting point
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tearing of grounds surface
Ground rupture
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scale of intensity
Vercalis
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scale of magnitude
Richter
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loosely pacjed water saturated oil looses strength
Liquefaction
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Earthquake induced landslide
downwardvmovement of soil
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Tsunami meaning
harbor tsu
wave nami in japanese
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shaking from ground divergent and convergent
Tsunami
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Winds
storm surge
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Been waited
Manila bay fault
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mixtures or rocks and glass particles
Volcanic ash and Tephra
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indonesan term for volcanic mudflow
Lahar
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lava flows
Pyroclastic Density Current
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Ecologicak solid waste management act of 2000 ( RA 9003)
solid waste
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Mid ocean ridge
Divergent Oceanic Oceanic
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Trench
Convergent Oceanic Cobvergent
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mountain ranges
Convergent conti conti
