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1. The southern portion of the late Paleozoic supercontinent known as Pangea. It means & literally 'Land of the Gonds' (a people of the Indian subcontinent).The supercontinent existed from Cambrian to Jurassic time & mainly composed of South America &
bar
Gondwana
cementation
drainage basin
2. The science that deals with the study of the planet Earth--the materials of which it is made & the processes that act to change these materials from one form to another & and the history recorded by these materials; the forces acting to deform the ou
geology
chlorophyll
storm surge
tide
3. Sediment formed by chemical precipitation from water. Example: halite precipitated as the result of the evaporation of sea water.
chemical sediment
absolute time
seismic gap
Earth system
4. Gases (primarily water and carbon dioxide & but also a variety of sulfur and nitrogen compounds and gaseous hydrocarbons) that trap the Sun's heat in the atmosphere.
rock
lava flood (plateau basalt)
magma
greenhouse gases
5. Scratches & or small channels & gouged by glacier action. Occur on boulders & pebbles & and bedrock. Striations along bedrock indicate direction of ice movement.
striations
legend
aa
lithosphere
6. Living on land.
terrestrial
decomposition (chemical weathering)
fossil fuel
hardness
7. The most recent eon of geologic time beginning 570 million years ago and continuing to the present.
acid rain
nova -- (Supernova)
Phanerozoic
quarrying
8. The process of mountain building.
scientific model
orogeny
Gondwana
pahoehoe
9. A soft compact calcite & CaCO3 & with varying amounts of silica & quartz & feldspar & or other mineral impurities & generally gray-white or yellow-white and derived chiefly from fossil seashells.
chalk
Earth
viscosity
spring
10. A hole or basin cut into bedrock of a stream by the abrasive action of pebbles and sand swirled by turbulent stream flow.
pothole
fold
ozone layer
rift (graben)
11. A group of stars that appear to make a pattern in the sky. The Big Dipper is a constellation.
back swamp
latitude
constellation
clast
12. Reduction of pore space between individual particles as the result of overlying sediments or of tectonic movements.
geologic time scale
loess
compaction
primary productivity
13. Molten rock & containing dissolved gases and suspended solid particles. At the Earth's surface & magma is known as lava.
sediment
magma
lava
convection
14. A continuous well-defined mass of material of sufficient ore content to make extraction economically feasible. compare mineral deposit.
region
greenhouse gases
conserve
ore deposit
15. An era of geologic time lasting from 570 to 245 million years ago.
Paleozoic
pathogen
till (unstratified drift)
arid
16. A ball of ice and dust & whose orbit is a long & narrow ellipse.
atmosphere
abundant metal
comet
oal
17. An accumulation of wind driven sand into a distinctive shape.
sand dune
Saturn
baseline study
telescope
18. A lake in an abandoned meander.
elevation
frost wedging
oxbow lake
water clarity
19. Turbulent stream water flow down a steep gradient & but not as steep as in a waterfall.
greenhouse gases
inner core
scientific model
rapids
20. A device containing a free-swinging magnetic needle that is attracted to Earth's magnetic North Pole. Used to determine direction of travel.
vesicle
compass
reservoir rock
hardpan
21. Synonym of intrusive. Antonym of volcanic. Applies to igneous rocks formed beneath the surface of the Earth; typically with large crystals due to the slowness of cooling.
rockfall
ozone depletion
seamount
plutonic
22. An era of time during the Phanerozoic eon lasting from 245 million years ago to 66.4 million ago.
focus
seismic sea wave (tsunami)
hydrologic cycle
Mesozoic
23. 1. Breach in a natural levee . 2. Deep crevice or open fracture in glacier ice.
dust devil
caldera
fissure eruption
crevasse
24. A lake of lava & usually basaltic & in a volcanic caldera.
fault
lava lake
moraine
beach
25. The average weather conditions of an area over many years & as measured by temperature & wind speed & and precipitation.
mesosphere
ozone depletion
climate
ice shelf
26. A valley carved by glacier erosion and whose cross-valley profile has steep sides and a nearly flat floor & suggestive of a large letter 'you'.
surf
Laurasia
you-shaped valley
wave height
27. The level of light that penetrates through water.
base
foreshock
oxbow lake
water clarity
28. The surface between the zone of saturation and the zone of aeration.
global warming
plate tectonics
wave height
water table
29. A narrow strip of land along the margin of the ocean extending inland for a variable distance from low water mark.
nebula
plutonic
rift (graben)
coast
30. A process by which salts accumulate in soil.
salinization
suspension
Pillow Lava
chlorophyll
31. A collection of maps.
rock
atlas
rift (graben)
reserves
32. The peak flow of water that tops the banks of a stream channel.
chemical sediment
flood
ice sheet
till (unstratified drift)
33. A ridge of high water associated with a hurricane and which floods over the shore .
archipelago
storm surge
Greenhouse Effect
Uranus
34. The attractive force between two objects; its magnitude depends on their masses and the distance between them.
geologic time scale
rift (graben)
gravity
gemstone
35. A geometrical form taken by a mineral & giving external expression to orderly internal atomic arrangement.
base
crystal
zone of aeration
seastack
36. Pertaining to clastic material formed by volcanic explosion or aerial expulsion from a volcanic vent.
pyroclastic
Milky Way
anemometer
Andromeda
37. An aggregate of one or more minerals in varying proportions.
rock
ecosystem
levees
luster
38. The surface between the zone of saturation and the zone of aeration.
permafrost
reserves
asthenosphere
water table
39. A detailed mathematical description of the cause-and-effect relationships between events that can be used to predict or explain other such events.
density
scientific model
intertidal zone
groundtruthing
40. The outermost part of the core. It is liquid & about 1 &700 km thick & and separated from the inner & solid core by a transition zone about 565 km thick.
Sun
cinder cone
rain shadow deserts
outer core
41. The rise and fall of sea level caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon on the Earth.
compass
tide
marine Chronometer
groundtruthing
42. A process of land degradation initiated by human activity & particularly in the zones along the margins of deserts.
clast
hot spot
Mesozoic
desertification
43. The process of one plate descending beneath another.
specific gravity
asthenosphere
waterfall
subduction
44. A division of geologic time next shorter than a period. Example: the Pleistocene epoch is in the Quaternary period.
compression fossil
ozone
stratification
epoch
45. Till deposited from main body of glacier during ablation.
seamount
ground moraine
Gondwana
telescope
46. The arrangement of rock units in the proper chronological order from youngest to oldest.
water table
gravity
geologic column
solar system
47. A steep or vertical cliff & either above or below sea level.
escarpment
Cenozoic
lithification
wave length
48. A cyclical pattern of movement in a fluid body such as the ocean & the atmosphere & or the Earth's mantle & driven by density variations which in turn are the result of differences in temperature from one part of the fluid to another.
humid
convection cell
isostatic change in sea level
wave height
49. The symbol used on a map to indicate directions & both cardinal and ordinal.
eustatic change in sea level
compass Rose
nonfoliated
stratovolcano (composite volcano)
50. A comet that passed Earth in 1997 and won't return to the inner solar system until the year 4377.
conduction
jetty
Hale-Bopp
natural resources
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