Exam 1: An Introduction to Geology and Plate Tectonics

____________was an aquatic, carnivorous reptile that was found both in eastern South America and southern Africa; lending support to the idea of a former land connection.

Why is Mt. Vesuvius considered so hazardous?

In sedimentary rocks, lithification includes _________.

In correct order from the centre outward, Earth includes which units?

The principle goal of physical geology is to study_________ .

The continental crust is heterogeneous but is predominantly made of____________ and is ________thick.

The northern extension of North America's great Paleozoic Appalachian mountain belt is now found in __________ .

__________used the Bible to calculate that the Earth was created in 4004 B.C.

Paleontologic evidence for the existence of Pangaea comes from ___________, a cold- loving,

The continental crust extends________ .

What are the basic differences between the disciplines of physical and historical geology?

Wegener's supercontinent that began to break up about 200 million years ago was named_____________ .

The Precambrian (Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic Eons) accounts for _____________.

New seafloor is created at_____________ plate boundaries.

Most geologic processes like erosion, sedimentation, uplift, and plate motion_________ .

What paleoclimatic evidence disproved worldwide cooling as a cause for the "tropical glaciations" between 300 and 220 million years ago?

Older mountain belts are found where former continent- continent collision occurred making thickened, low density crust like in ___________where erosion has exposed deformed Precambrian rocks from deep in the crust.

The idea that all of the tremendous geologic changes in Earth's history were concentrated in a few brief millennia is termed ________.

As a self- contained planet, Earth is divided into several interacting systems called ________.

The Earth's core was formed from ___________.