As always, please plan to complete this material in 3 weeks (15
week semester)
Online students can do this exercise, called Virtual Earthquake for credit. Look in the assignment section of blackboard for details.
Click here to learn about the interior of the earth
Key Terms
asthenosphere
crust
earthquake
elastic potential energy
fault
Gutenberg Discontinuity
inner core
Lemann discontinuity
lithosphere
mantle
moment magnitude
Moho (Mohorovicic discontinuity)
outer core
P wave (primary wave)
Richter scale
S wave (secondary or shear wave)
Seismology
Surface wave (Love wave and Rayleigh wave)
Tsunami
Key Terms
absolute dating
batholith
cambrian explosion
catastrophism
Cenozoic
cross-cutting relationships (principle of)
dike
era
half life
index fossil
Mesozoic
natural selection
original horizontality (principle of)
paleontology
Paleozoic
Precambrian
principle of fossil succession
radiometric (radioactive) dating
relative dating
sill
superposition (law of)
unconformity
uniformitarianism (Principle of Uniformity)
Understand the "principles" used to determine the relative ages of rock in a region. Realize the type problems a geologist can encounter and some of the "clues" which may lead him/her to the correct conclusion.
Learn about life on the earth by clicking
here.
1) List the major fossil fuels and indicate how they are used by us.
2) What is the current state of consumption / availability of the major fuels we use?
3) What is the source of each major fuel?
4) List some major problems we must deal with when using coal and nuclear energy.
5) List some alternate energy sources and indicate why they are not
utilized to a greater extent.
Key Terms:
Click here to learn about the oceans
abyssal plain
continental shelf
continental slope
El Niño
Gulf Stream
La Niña
mid-ocean ridges
seamount
upwelling
turbidity currents
What drives surface ocean currents?
What are some of the effects of El Niño?
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