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APSC 151 WEEK 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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APSC 151 WEEK 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Name: Score:51 Multiple choice questions
Term 1 of 51
Biosphere
Life
Sediments are deposited in horizontal layers
Complex life to land
In horizontal layers of sedimentary rock, the oldest layers are the deepest. As you
ascend from depth, rock gets younger.
Term 2 of 51
P waves
Faster and travel thru every material
cannot travel through liquids
Below crust, tectonics, Si O Fe Mg
calcite, dolomite
Term 3 of 51
Atmosphere
Below crust, tectonics, Si O Fe Mg
All the water on earth
Bauxite
Gases
,Term 4 of 51
What are the subdivisions of the Mesozoic era
Pangea and Gondwana
Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
Phanerozoic and Precambrian
inner core, outer core, lower mantle, upper mantle, crust
Term 5 of 51
Intrusion
Moving past each other side by side (San Andreas)
cannot travel through liquids
Olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, micas, feldspars, quartz
Igneous rocks intrude into older rocks as molten
Term 6 of 51
What happens in the Permian period
Sediments are deposited in horizontal layers
Liq v Solid (both Ni and Fe)
Large reptiles, Pangea, meteor
Life
,Term 7 of 51
Criteria for Mineral (5)
One goes under the other, subduction
1. naturally occurring
2. Inorganic
3. Solid
4. Ordered internal structure
5. Definite Chemical comp
going away from one another
inner core, outer core, lower mantle, upper mantle, crust
Term 8 of 51
What are the two eons
inner core, outer core, lower mantle, upper mantle, crust
Phanerozoic and Precambrian
Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
going away from one another
Term 9 of 51
Geosphere
calcite, dolomite
Solid part of earth
Color of the powder
Gases
, Term 10 of 51
Nebular hypothesis
Liq v Solid (both Ni and Fe)
Archea (Prokaryotes) extremophiles, anaerobic, flagellum
Large reptiles, Pangea, meteor
Bodies in solar system evolved from solar nebula (gas, dust)
Term 11 of 51
Hazard assessment
All the water on earth
Igneous intrusions
(Risk)*(Likelihood)
4.6 billion years old
Term 12 of 51
What was the first life
Bodies in solar system evolved from solar nebula (gas, dust)
Complex life to land
Sediments are deposited in horizontal layers
Archea (Prokaryotes) extremophiles, anaerobic, flagellum
Term 13 of 51
Phanerozoic era (dinosaurs)
Convection of heat mineral in mantle
Phanerozoic and Precambrian
Cenozoic, Mesozoic (dinos), Paleozoic
The atomic planes minerals part along
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