Semester 1 Review Jeopardy

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Semester 1 Review Jeopardy
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Which law tells us that a fault or igneous
intrusion is always younger than the rock layers
it cuts through?
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The Law of Crosscutting Relationships
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Evidence that an animal was once in a place like
footprints or burrows?
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Trace Fossils

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Break in the geologic record?
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Unconformity
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The number of half-lives gone through when a
parent isotope is ¼ of its original amount?
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2
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Which law tells us that all rocks beneath an
unconformity are older than rocks above the
unconformity?
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Law of Superposition
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In radiometric dating, what is the original
material called? (the radioactive material)
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Parent isotope
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The Impact Hypothesis says dinosaurs became
extinct when
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An asteroid crashed into the Earth
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The super continent that formed about 300 million
years ago.
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Pangea
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An occurrence where many species die out?
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Mass extinction
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A geologic period is usually named for?
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The place where characteristic fossils were first
discovered.
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Gradual development of new organisms from
pre-existing ones?
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Evolution
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These are the longest units of geologic time?
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Eons
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Plates that slide past each other in opposite
directions?
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Transform
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One way that plate movement affects climate?
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Creating mountains that affect wind patterns.
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Most scientists agree that the Earth is about how
hold?
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4.6 Billion Years ago
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Slowest moving seismic waves?
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Surface waves
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Why earthquakes usually occur at plate
boundaries?
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Great stress
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How the intensity of XII is described?
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Total destruction
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Area on Earths surface where no direct seismic
waves can be detected?
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Shadow zone
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Tracing of earthquake motion that depends on a
seismograph.
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Seismogram
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Liquid rock underground?
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Magma
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A large pluton?
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Batholith
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The majority of earthquakes and volcanoes happens
here?
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Pacific Ring of Fire
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Iceland lies along this?
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge
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Hawaiian Island formed due to this?
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• Hot Spot

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