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- limestone
- used for building materals and industrial needs
- divergence in the oceanic crust causes
- sea floor spreading
- energy for water cycle
- the sun
- zooplankton
- animal plankton
- aa lava
- rough jagged block
- kettle lakes
- formed by glacier
- blowout
- deflation
- what forms from contiental continental boundaries
- mountain ranges- the himalayas
- continental contiental convergence
- the collision between the continental fragment and resulted and formed folded mountains
- neritic zone
- marine life zone
- 3 layered structure of the ocean
- shalow surface mized zone a transition zone and a deep zone
- what determines waters vertical position in the ocean of water
- density
- fractures in the earth wher emovemtn has occoured
- faults
- glassy texture
- very rapid cooling
- beach
- accumulation of sediment dound along the shore of lake or oceans
- processes that decrease salinity
- precipitation- sea ice melting- ice bergs melting-
- spheriodal waethering
- edges of rock to be more rounded
- as sediment move away from the mid ocean ridge
- are older
- tidal pattern with 2 high and low tides
- semidiurnal tides
- what forms from oceanic oceanic boundarys
- volcanoes and volcanic ranges
- abyssal zone
- low temperatures low oxygen low high pressure- few nutrients- and no sunlight
- refraction
- a wave in shallow water slows causing the wave to bend and align itself with the underwater contours
- laterite
- warm wet tropical climtes
- sources of sea salt
- chanical waethering of rocks or the continents and lements found in seawater is form earths interoir
- structures most damaged by an earthquake
- brick structures
- most abundant salts in ocean water
- common table salt
- sedimentary rock formed
- preexisting rock
- metamorphism can casue
- recrystallization compaction and crystals to become larger
- sandstone aquifier
- purify water
- maganese nodules
- hydrogenous seidment -contain resources from the ocean that are hard to mine
- in mountanous areas the continental crust is
- thicker than usual
- fine grained
- fast cooling
- slump
- the downward movement along a curved surfae
- metamorphism means
- to change form
- permeability
- the ability to transmit water thopugh connected pore spaces
- biogenous sedimetn
- consists of shells and skeltons of marine animals and algea
- plankton
- drift with ocean current- all oraganisms and bacteria
- cause of earthquaks
- elastic rebound
- artesian wall
- groundwater rided on own pressure
- igneous rocks formed
- crystallization of molten magma
- seawater density
- influenced by salinty and temperature
- elastic deformation
- deformation in which the object reutnns to its orginalk shape
- dune
- steeper on windward side
- renewable resources
- replenished over short spans of time
- earthquakes assosiated with what geological process
- faults
- compositon of plates
- oceanic and continental
- explanation for plate techtonics
- convection currents
- nuclear fission
- when the nuclei split uranium 235
- cinder cones
- a small volcano built primarily of pyroclastic material ejected from a single cvent steep sided slope
- stream discharfe
- the volume of water flowing past a certain point in a given unit of time, and increases the source to the mouth,
- this produced the mountain of japan
- oceanic ocean convergence
- 4 major oceans
- indian-artic-atlantic-pacific
- folding
- produced by compression
- spheriodial weathering
- causes the corners and edges of rock to be more rounded
- pelagic zone
- open zone of any depth
- processes that increase silinity
- evaportaiton formation of ice
- distance to and earthquake is determined how?
- arrival times of p and s waves
- submersiles
- crafts for deep sea reasearch- long period and controlled by computers
- contour plowing
- control erosions
- cone of saturation
- produce the most water
- red sea was formed by
- a divergent boundary
- composition of continetal crust
- granite
- major mountain types
- folded, fault block, and volcanic
- creep
- slow movemtn along a fault
- wegeners explanation for contiental drift and why it was rejected
- moons gravitational pull moved the ocnitnents `
- sea floor spreading-
- plate techtonics produces new oceanic lithosphere at ocean ridges
- benthic zone
- sea bottom surface with marine life
- when water freezes
- its volume increases
- gas hydrates
- rapidkly decomposed at the surface temp
- magma
- heat- decrese in pressure-water can lower the melting temperat of mantle rock enough to form magma
- barachanoid dunes
- scalloped--wind is a right angle to it
- transpiration o
- the realease of water into the atmosphere from plants
- energy in water
- no visible evidence
- porosity
- the percent of pore spaces
- stalacties
- hang down
- mohs scale
- list og 10 minerals from hardest to softest
- cause of soil erosion
- water
- wegener
- plate techtonics
- temp of water moving toward the equator
- as cold water currents travel toward the equator, they help moderate the wam temperatures of adjacent land areas
- major cause of floods
- rapid snow melts
- types of weathering in deserts
- mechanical
- course gained
- slow cooling
- conditions of formation of metamorphic rocks
- a few km below the earths surface
- tsunamis
- produced by faults in the ocean
- greatest amount of soil formation
- warm wet climates
- karst topography
- the dissolving of rock due to acid.
- what is a transform fualt boundary
- the san andreas fault.
- resources found in ocean
- copper nickel and colbalt
- glacier
- collection of ice and snow
- zone of aeration
- cone of air
- abrasion
- the grinding action of rock fragment in water
- rate of waethering factors
- climate-composition of rock- surface area
- batholith
- large masses of igneous rock that formed when magma intruded at depth and became crystallized- intrusive0 and biggest ban be core of mountains
- how did they account for identical fosils on widely separtateed continents
- one big contient that split apart pangea
- neap tides
- tides that have the lowest tiadal range
- nonrenewable resources
- take mjillions of years to form and accumulate
- famous transform faulty in US.
- san andreas
- extrusive igneous rocks
- cools quickly and has no crystals
- nekton
- all animals capable of moving independently of the ocean currents or swimming on other means of propulsion
- upwelling
- the rising of cold water from deeper lawters to replace warmer surface
- volcanic neck
- reamains after the volcano has eroded
- intrusive igneous rocks
- haS crystals and cools slowly
- wind energy
- 5 10 of the deman for electricty
- hydrothermal solutions
- dissolving oridinal mineral and then depositing new ones
- balance in the water cycle
- when average annual preciptation over earth equals the amount of water that evaportates
- evidence of sea floor spreading
- strips of alternating polerity which lie as mirror images across the ocean ridges
- metamorphic rock formed
- heat pressure and chemically active fluids
- richter scale- what is the increase in wave amplitude from when increased by one
- 10 times
- mass movement
- the transfer of rock an soil downslope due to gravity
- what occures at the continental margin of the pacific ocean in the us
- oceanic crust plunges beneath the continental crust- volcanic activity and earthquakes
- sonar
- transmitting sound waves townard the ocean bottom
- long shore current
- a near shore current that dlows parallel to the shore
- motion of water of particles in ocen
- they orbit in circles
- transform fault boundaries
- plates grind past eachother without destroying the lithosphere