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| Who discovered the Continental Drift? |
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| Who discovered sea floor spreading? |
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| Who discovered marine magnetic anomaly? |
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| What is the name of the super continent? |
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| Name three important discoveries in support of continental drift. |
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| fossils, age of rocks, & continental glaciers |
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| What is marine magnetic anomaly? |
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| magnetic polar reversal + sea floor spreading |
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| lithosphere & asthenosphere |
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| converging, transforming, diverging |
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| Example of continent/continent converging |
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| Example of continent/ocean converging boundaries |
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| volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsumanis |
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| driving mechanism of plate tectonics is located in |
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| convection cells are located un |
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| asthenosphere and outer core |
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| What contributes to polar magnetic reversal and where are they located? |
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| convection cells in the outer core |
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| balastic oceanic crust age can be determined by |
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| distance from midatlantic ridge |
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| heat flow at midatlantic ridge is caused by |
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| _____ of rocks increase as you move away from the ridge |
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| continental shelf and continental rise are |
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| are the continental shelf and continental rise considered part of the ocean floor? why/why not? |
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| No; ocean floor is balsaltic, shelf and rise are not. |
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| geomagnetic field caused by ______ in the ________ ________ |
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| geomagnetic polar reversal is caused by |
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| erosion surface- a break in the time sequence |
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| above and below are sedimentary rocks |
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| above are horizontal, below are angular |
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| horizontal layers of sediment above, crystalline structures below |
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| Messaurus, Cynothos, Lystoarous, Glossopteris |
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| what does the richter scale measure? |
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| what does the modified marchelli scale measure? |
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| What is the fastest wave? |
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| name the wave: rock particles vibrate & moves in a parallel direction of motion |
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| name the wave: cannot go through liquid |
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| name the wave: movement is perpendicular |
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| How many stations to know the distance of an earthquake? |
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| How many stations to figure out location? |
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| What are the three major boundaries? |
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| crust, mantle, outer core, inner core |
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| What is the name of the boundary between the crust and the mantles? |
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| Which is made of liquid? Outer Core or Inner Core |
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| Which is above the asthenosphere? |
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| Boundaries from less intensity to most. |
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| Tectonic plate beoundaries, converging, subduction, Benioff zone |
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| If a strike is given, how many dip directions and at what angle? |
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| What waves give the most information about interior? |
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| axial plane is horizontal or nearly horizontal on these two folds: |
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| overturned fold and recumbent fold |
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| If the distance is doubled |
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| force is decreased by 1/4 |
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| If a tectonic plate is held down against isotasy |
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| IF tectonic plate is held up at against isotasy |
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| Austerlich & Aurora Borealis are |
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| cosmic radiation interaction with geomagnetic fold |
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