Oceanography - FINAL EXAM - All test questions & Answers New & Revised
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Ocean 100
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Ocean 100
The Sun, Earth, and other planets formed from a cloud of gas and dust known as the________ _________. - Answer Solar nebula
The age of the Solar System is derived primarily from radiometric dating of what materials? - Answer Meteroites
Why is Earth the only planet with liquid water? - A...
Oceanography - FINAL EXAM - All test questions &
Answers New & Revised
The Sun, Earth, and other planets formed from a cloud of gas and dust known as the________
_________. - Answer Solar nebula
The age of the Solar System is derived primarily from radiometric dating of what materials? - Answer
Meteroites
Why is Earth the only planet with liquid water? - Answer In terms of earth's position in the solar
system, we are in " just the right spot"... not too hot and not too cold so we can have water
The planets in our solar system are in orbit despite the immense gravitational attraction of the sun
because of ___________________ _____________ produced by the rotation of the entire system -
Answer Centrifugal Force
The inner, rocky planets are called __________ planets - Answer Terrestrial
The outer, larger planets that are composed of primarily of the less dense elements are known as -
Answer Gas giant planets
The goal of a scientific experiment is to ______________ _______ _____________________ - Answer
Disapprove the hypothesis
The process where by earth changed from a homogeneous mass into a distinctively layer structure is
called - Answer Density stratification
Fossils are defined as being - Answer Remnants of ancient life
The oldest fossils are found in marine sediments because the earth's early oceans provided a shield from
___________ radiation. - Answer Ultraviolet
, The Pleistocene Epoch is also known as the - Answer Ice Age
The geologic age in which we live is the ______________ Epoch - Answer Holocene
Fossils of terrestrial animals that wash up on gulf coast beaches indicate that sea levels during the Ice
Age were much __________ - Answer Lower
(Cold = down)
The process that continually shapes the surface of the earth via geologic processes is - Answer Plate
tectonics
The solid, brittle, rocky outermost sphere of the Earth is the _____________ - Answer lithosphere
The inner earth layer (or sphere) of dense, hot, plastic rock that contains the convection currents that
drive plate tectonics is the _______________ - Answer Asthenosphere
The name of the last great supercontinent is - Answer Pangea
The atmosphere was produced by a process known as ______________ __________________ - Answer
Volcanic outgassing
The change in organisms that occurs over time as they adapt to changing environments produce by plate
tectonics is - Answer Organic evolution
The type of tectonic boundary which plates collide is a - Answer Convergent boundary
The tectonic boundary at which plates move apart is a? - Answer divergent boundary
Briefly describe how the peninsula of Florida formed - Answer Weathering and erosion washed up to
build Florida from the Gulf of Mexico and lowering levels exposed it
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