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why so many earthquakes in the Caribbean? ~ there are a lot of plate boundaries destruction from vibration ~ softer ground amplifies shaking destruction varies based on nature of the ground Mercalli intensity scale ~ describes how we feel an earthquake goes up to 12 building protection from ...

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APSC 151 terms concepts
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Triple Bottom Line


✓✓✓✓~ Where the environment, society, and economic perspectives are in balance




Physical Geology


✓✓✓✓~ Earths Materials: understand processes that operate on/beneath the surface




Historical Geology


✓✓✓✓~ Origin of Earth: development through time




Engineering Geology


✓✓✓✓~ Analysis of earth history and processes and the impact on human activities




Hydrosphere


✓✓✓✓~ Oceans, freshwater, glacial ice




Atmosphere

,✓✓✓✓~ Thin layer producing weather, climate




Biosphere


✓✓✓✓~ Includes all living things on Earth




Geosphere


✓✓✓✓~ Includes rocks, land forms, Earth's Interior




Earth's System


✓✓✓✓~ The link of the 4 spheres




Catastrophism


✓✓✓✓~ Shaping of the Earth's landscape by catastrophes




Uniformitarianism


✓✓✓✓~ The present is key to the past: what is happening now on Earth happened in the
past




Nebular Hypothesis


✓✓✓✓~ bodies in the solar system evolved from solar nebula

,Crust


✓✓✓✓~ Rigid solid made of silica minerals




Mantle


✓✓✓✓~ Plastic solid: magnesium-iron minerals

upper boundary 700C


core boundary 4000C




Core


✓✓✓✓~ liquid outer

solid inner


iron-nickle metal




Body Waves


✓✓✓✓~ travel through earths interior




Surface waves


✓✓✓✓~ travel on earths surface

, Earths interior


✓✓✓✓~ was determined through studying seismic waves




Rock Cycle


✓✓✓✓~ loop that changes one rock type to another




Igneous rock


✓✓✓✓~ formed from molten magma

the only rocks that can be dated




Weathering


✓✓✓✓~ creates sediments




Sedimentary Rock


✓✓✓✓~ Lithified sediments




Metamorphic Rock


✓✓✓✓~ produced from burial and heat




Relative Dating

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