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Setting The Stage For Learning About The Earth

If you have any test reviews, homeworks, guides, anything school related that you think can be posted on this website, reach out to me at makingschooleasier@gmail.com   (These Answers Should Be Used as a Basis For Yours) Exercise 1.1 Submergence Rate Along the Maine Coast The rate of submergence is the total change in elevation of the pier 2 meters divided by the total amount of time involved 300 years and is therefore .67 cm/yr Exercise 1.4  Sources of Heat for Earth Processes A. The sand should be hot since the sun has been heating up the sand throughout the day. i. When you dig your feet into the sand you should feel cooler sand since the sun's penetration into the earth is limited. ii. This suggests that the Sun can only penetrate into the Earth up until a certain depth. iii.Based on this conclusion, one can assume that the Sun is not responsible for the Earth's internal heat since, we have heat hundreds of kilometers within the Earth and this can not be exp

A BIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTH

If you have any test reviews, homeworks, guides, anything school related that you think can be posted on this website, reach out to me at makingschooleasier@gmail.com   Question 1       Which of the following is not useful in identifying mountain belts that have eroded away and therefore are not obvious topographic features? Correct Answer: shocked quartz         Question 2       Identify the false statement. There is very little rock record for Earth's first 600 million years because: Correct Answer: the surface then was one huge ocean basin filled with hot water and nothing else.         Question 3       Which geologic time interval saw the first continents, the first life, and possibly the first plates? Correct Answer: Archean         Question 4       Which of the following has nothing to do with fossils? Correct Answer: Rodinia         Question 5       Which of the following statements is false? The first life forms: Correct

DEEP TIME

If you have any test reviews, homeworks, guides, anything school related that you think can be posted on this website, reach out to me at makingschooleasier@gmail.com   Question 1       Uniformitarianism: Correct Answer:  is illustrated by scientists' seeing pillow lava form only under water, then theorizing that pillow lava found high in the mountains today did nevertheless form under water.         Question 2             Which of the following shows four time divisions listed from oldest to youngest? Correct Answer: Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic         Question 3             Choose the proper listing of names to fit the following three descriptions: Age of Mammals, Age of Dinosaurs, and longest geologic time period. Correct Answer:  Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Precambrian         Question 4       Which of the following is not a method to determine numerical age? Correct Answer:  cross-cutting relations         Question 5      

Crustal Deformation

If you have any test reviews, homeworks, guides, anything school related that you think can be posted on this website, reach out to me at makingschooleasier@gmail.com   Question 1 Which term has nothing to do with true mountains? Correct Answer: cratonic platform                 Question 2 Which of the following conditions will tend to make rocks change by ductile deformation rather than by brittle deformation? Correct Answer: slowly applied stress                 Question 3 Pick out the true statement. The San Andreas Fault: Correct Answer: is a right-lateral strike-slip fault.                 Question 4 If you see small angular fragments of shattered rock along a linear boundary between two masses of rock, you must be looking at: Correct Answer: fault breccia                 Question 5 Faulting in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona: Correct Answer: all of the above are true statements.                 Question 6 Which of the foll

Sedimentary Rocks

If you have any test reviews, homeworks, guides, anything school related that you think can be posted on this website, reach out to me at makingschooleasier@gmail.com   Question 1 Sedimentary rocks can form:     Correct Answer: all of the above are true         Question 2             Choose the proper listing of detritus terms, going from smallest to largest of the words offered     Correct Answer:  mud, silt, sand Question 3       Which statement is true? Pieces of broken rock produced by physical weathering are collectively called detritus     Correct Answer: Pieces of broken rock produced by physical weathering are collectively called detritus     Question 4             Which is not a "soil term"? Correct Answer:  arkose     Question 5       A nonmarine clastic sedimentary rock composed of angular fragments surrounded by matrix is: Correct Answer:  breccia     Question 6       A clastic sedimentary rock with clay and si