Compare and contrast the three types of earthquake waves.
What is a Tsunami? How does it travel; how is it created?
What is the relevance of earthquakes waves in determining the composition/structure of earth’s interior?
What factors are important in determining the amount of destruction in an earthquake?
List each of the layers of the earth. Include composition and state of matter.
What is the Richter scale and how are magnitudes different?
Compare contrast lithosphere and athenosphere.
Define epicenter and focus
Contrast continental and oceanic crust
List the three types of plate boundaries. Note the direction of plate motion, the occurrence of earthquakes and volcanoes (including type), and include an example.
Where are deep ocean trenches located (what type of plate boundary)
What is a subduction zone?
Define Pangaea
What drives the motion of tectonic plates?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Why is
What is Mesosaurus and explain its significance
What are land bridges, and how were they significant to continental drift
What are hot spots, give examples.
What is older continents crust, or oceanic?
What is the ring of fire?
List the following magmas in terms of increasing viscosity. Basaltic, andesititc, and rhyolitic.
Contrast aa and pahoehoe lava
List the four major igneous plutons and explain how each is different
List the 3 volcanoes types and explain how each is different
What is a caldera, give an example
What is a grabben?
What is a thrust fault?
What are a dome and a basin; where are the oldest beds located
What is a strike slip fault?
Contrast normal and reverse fault
What is the age of the earth?
What is the era of “ancient life?”
Explain uniformitarianism
What is correlation in relative dating?
What is superposition?
What is an index fossil?
85% of earth history falls in what time division
What is the difference between and eon, era, and period
When did abundant fossils first appear in the fossil record?
During which period did mammals appear?
What was unique about the fossil animals of the Cambrian versus the Precambrian?