Duplicate of Earth Science Review West

Earth is approximately how old?

This nonrenewable energy resource is transported by train and creates A LOT of pollution.

Approximately how long have humans existed?

Arrange from Largest to Smallest

Renewable or Nonrenewable: Coal

This type of force creates new landforms on Earth, like mountains.

The moving of weathered material, or sediment, from one location to another.

The name of the giant supercontinent

Renewable or Nonrenewable: Biomass

What is the name of a tectonic plate boundary where crust is neither created nor destroyed?

What is the name of a tectonic plate boundary where the plates come together?

What kind of major events do scientist organize the geologic time scale by?

This renewable energy resource could be affected on a cloudy day.

The breaking down of rocks, soil, and minerals by contact with the wind, water, and organisms.

Describes how light is reflected from a mineral.

Plates of the lithosphere float on what Earth layer?

What is the name of Layer D?

The laying down of settling of eroded material.

This Nonrenewable Energy Resource uses the element Uranium.

What happens when you travel towards the inner core of Earth?

Convection Currents happen in this layer of Earth.

This renewable energy resource can have a potential negative impact on birds.

Convection currents are caused by these two factors

Limestone can erode away to create these 2 landforms

Earth's core is MOSTLY made of this type of metal?

Metamorphic Rocks can be changed to sediment by ______.

Minerals _______ be made from living organisms.

What is the name of a tectonic plate boundary where the plates slide past one another?

What is the name of Layer A?

Renewable or Nonrenewable: Wind

An underwater mountain chain.

This nonrenewable energy resource is the cleanest burning.

The crust and the upper mantle make up this layer.

This type of igneous rock, like obsidian, has small crystals because it cooled quickly.

Describes the tendency of minerals to break with rough or jagged surfaces.

Renewable or Nonrenewable: Solar

Describes the tendency of minerals to break along a smooth, flat surface.

Renewable or Nonrenewable: Oil

Mesozoic= Age of ________________.

Which type of rock is created by compaction and cementation?

Which is NOT a weathering agent?

What is the name of a tectonic plate boundary where the plates move apart or separate?

This renewable energy resource comes from living matter and if burned creates pollution.

This fossil fuel is mined in Indiana.

In geologic time, which is the longest time subdivision?

A metamorphic rock created by high temperatures and low equal pressure.

This type of metamorphic rock is

Earth's plasticlike layer

Which layer of Earth contains liquid iron that is responsible for Earth's Magnetic Field?

Cenozoic= Age of _______________.

Which type of rock is created by heat and pressure?

Renewable or Nonrenewable: Geothermal

Igneous Rocks are formed by?

Renewable or Nonrenewable: Natural Gas

Renewable or Nonrenewable: Nuclear

This type of igneous rock, like granite, has large crystals because it cooled slowly.

When one tectonic plate is forced under another plate.

This renewable energy resource requires drilling a well to reach the source.

The youngest rocks on the floor of the ocean are located

Describes the color of a powered mineral.

Indiana geology is best described as