Earth Science

The further the island is from the hot spot, the 

The _____ can be used to determine the relative age of rock layers.

Alfred Wegener did NOT use this type of evidence because it was not yet available to him

The sandstone layer is younger than the igneous rock layer.  This statement is an example of...

What does the image represent?

What is the top layer of the Earth called?

Which of the Hawaiian islands is the youngest?

The ___ of ocean floor rocks on one side of an ocean ridge is a mirror image of the other side

Which layer is the oldest in the cross-cut section?

Crust is neither destroyed nor formed along which boundary?

Pattern of rock at the bottom of rock formations at the bottom of the ocean show the crust is

Crust near ocean ridges is _____(compared to ocean crust near deep-sea trenches)

The existence of coal beds in Antarctica indicates that the continent once was _____

What force drives the movement of crustal tectonic plates?

Radioactive decay occurs at a ________ ______ to make it useful in determining the absolute age

Hot spot volcanoes are associated with which boundary?

Features found at divergent boundaries include

According to the image, which layer is the youngest?

Continental-continental plate collisions produce 

How old is the earth?

You can tell that a fault is younger than the rock it cuts across by applying the principle of 

Earthquakes are most likely to occur at

The image shown represents  a highly folded __ where two continents are running into each other

The amount of time it takes for one-half of the original amount of an isotope to decay is ___

What is the half-life of the element in the graph shown?

Deep sea trenches and volcanoes are a result of ______.

The oldest rock layer in an undisturbed rock sequence occurs ___

What does this image represent?

What is Alfred Wegener's theory?

____________________ is used to determine the absolute age of a rock?