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APSC 151 MIDTERM TEST 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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APSC 151 MIDTERM TEST 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Definition 1 of 302
Derive energy and motion from wind, transfer energy to shorelines, can obtain wave energy
Strength
Waves
Hardness
Salt flats
Definition 2 of 302
Considers economic, social, and environmental limitations
How do tectonic plates move
Porphyritic igneous texture
Triple Bottom Line (3BL)
Compressional stress
Definition 3 of 302
All of the chemical, physical, and biological changes that take place after sediments are
deposited, but prior to metamorphism, occurs within upper few kilometres of crust at temp
less than 200 degrees celsius
Diagenesis
Permeability
Joints
Mafic magma
,Definition 4 of 302
Measure slight gravitational changes due to different geomaterials and density
Suspended load
Radiometric dating
Geophysics gravity
Historical geology
Definition 5 of 302
Soil type that has a high accumulation of oxides and clays, under forest vegetation in humid,
high temperature climates
Pedalfer soil
Pedocal soil
Mafic magma
Physical geology
Definition 6 of 302
Up-warped or arched rock layers, called dome in 3D
Cinder cone volcanoes
Shield volcanoes
Engineering geology
Anticline fold
Definition 7 of 302
Called continental ice sheets, currently just Greenland and Antarctica
Sheet flow runoff
Ice sheets/ice caps
Reflection seismics
Engineering geology
,Definition 8 of 302
Called obsidian, formed by very rapid cooling of molten rock
Benefits of volcanoes:
Glassy igneous texture
Concentrating runoff
Lower limit of glacier
Definition 9 of 302
Can only travel through solids and are slower
Tephra fall
Welded tuff
Rock cycle
Shear waves
Definition 10 of 302
Breaks into pieces, occurs in rocks at low temp and pressure
Subduction zones
Parts of a fold:
Double refraction
Brittle fracture
Definition 11 of 302
Applied unequally from different directions
Differential stress
Zone of ablation
Triple Bottom Line (3BL)
Dissolved load
, Definition 12 of 302
Variations in shape of Earth's orbit, change in angle of Earth's axis, and the wobbling of Earth's
axis causes ice ages
Magmatic differentiation
Milankovitch hypothesis
Catastrophism
Formation of glacial ice
Definition 13 of 302
Water-saturated sediment deform under glacier
Soft bed deformation
Glacial drift
Compressive strength
Earth's external processes:
Definition 14 of 302
Input electricity into ground and measure the current at different points in the ground
melting begins if:
Tidal (current) power
Aphanitic igneous texture
Direct resistivity surveying
Definition 15 of 302
Flat surfaces that separate strata, originally horizontal
Specific weight
Tidal flats
Bedding planes
Paleozoic era
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