Test 2

Question 0

Competence

Answer 0

The maximum particle size a stream can transport, determined by velocity

Question 1

Capacity

Answer 1

The maximum load a stream can transport

Question 2

Porosity

Answer 2

Percent of pore spaces/number of holes. Tells how much water can be stored

Question 3

Permeability

Answer 3

Ability to transmit water & how easily it will flow through

Question 4

3 parts to milankovitch cycle?

Answer 4

Eccentricity: the shape of the earths orbit, cycle 100,000 years.
Obliquity: the tilt of the earths axis.
Precession: the wobbling of the earths axis.

Question 5

Alpine glaciers

Answer 5

Shape the mountains. Otherwise known as valley glaciers.

Question 6

Continental glaciers

Answer 6

A continent is covered in ice

Question 7

Erosion

Answer 7

the physical removal of material

Question 8

Weathering

Answer 8

Physical or chemical breaking down of a rock

Question 9

When ____ is applied to rocks, they can deform in an elastic or plastic manner, or they may rupture by brittle fracture. Affected by material, temperature, pressure, and rate.

Answer 9

stress

Question 10

A ________ is any feature produced by deformation of rocks.

Answer 10

geologic structure

Question 11

_____ form when rocks are compressed.

Answer 11

Folds

Question 12

A ________ is a fracture along which rock on one side has moved relative to rock on the other side.

Answer 12

fault

Question 13

_______ are usually caused when rocks are pulled apart.

Answer 13

Normal faults

Question 14

_____ and ______ faults are caused by compression.

Answer 14

Reverse & thrust

Question 15

___________ form where blocks of crust slip horizontally past each other along vertical fractures.

Answer 15

Strike-slip faults

Question 16

A ________ is a fracture in rock where the rock has not been displaced.

Answer 16

joint

Question 17

Mountains form when the crust thickens and rises ______.

Answer 17

isostatically.

Question 18

Type of arc that forms when two converging plates carry oceanic crust. (volcanic)

Answer 18

Island arcs

Question 19

If one plate carries continental crust and one plate carries oceanic crust, then a(n) _______ forms.

Answer 19

Andean margin

Question 20

Andean margins contain rocks of _______ and sedimentary rocks deposited in a ____________.

Answer 20

subduction complex, forearc basin

Question 21

Andean margins are dominated by _______ and ________.

Answer 21

granitic plutons, andesitic volcanoes.

Question 22

When two plates carrying continental crust converge, an Andean margin develops first, as oceanic crust between the two continental masses is subducted. When the two continents later combine, one continent is ___________ between the other. Result examples = Himalayan Mtns

Answer 22

underthrust

Question 23

Fold arching upward

Answer 23

anticline

Question 24

Fold arching downward

Answer 24

syncline

Question 25

Sides of a fold are called _______.

Answer 25

limbs

Question 26

If a fold has tilted beyond the perpendicular, it is ______.

Answer 26

overturned

Question 27

A circular or elliptical anticline structure (shaped like an upside down cereal bowl) is called a _____.

Answer 27

dome

Question 28

Only about ____ of the Earth's water is fresh. The rest is saltwater and glacial ice.

Answer 28

0.63

Question 29

The constant circulation of water among the sea, land, the biosphere, and the atmosphere is called _____.

Answer 29

the hyrdologic cycle, or water cycle

Question 30

Most water returns to the _____ as precipitation.

Answer 30

ocean

Question 31

Part of the precipitation that falls on the continents returns to the sea via ______ and moving ground water.

Answer 31

runoff

Question 32

The other part of precipitation returns to the atmosphere via evaporation and _______.

Answer 32

transpiration

Question 33

The hyrdologic cycle describes the movement of water and is ________.

Answer 33

the movement of energy from one part of the globe to another.