APSC 151 Exam Questions
And Answers
Triple Bottom Line
✓✓✓✓~ people, planet, profit
nebular hypothesis
✓✓✓✓~ bodies in solar system evolved from solar nebula
earth forms
✓✓✓✓~ 4.6-4.5 bya
Earth's internal structure
✓✓✓✓~ crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
time periods
✓✓✓✓~ eon, era, period, epoch
phanerozoic eon
,✓✓✓✓~ paleozoic, mesozoic, cenozoic eras
radiometric dating
✓✓✓✓~ calculating ages of rocks and minerals that contain a particular isotope
relative dating
✓✓✓✓~ principle of fossil succession, law of superposition
first life
✓✓✓✓~ 4 bya, anerobic archaea, archaen eon
stromatolites
✓✓✓✓~ bacterial colonies, archaen eon
proterozoic eon
✓✓✓✓~ oxygenation, major ice age, first great extinction
ordovician period
✓✓✓✓~ major extinction due to ice age
,carboniferous period
✓✓✓✓~ age of coal, large forests
permian period
✓✓✓✓~ pangea forms(breaks up in triassic), permian extinction
mezozoic era
✓✓✓✓~ age of dinosaurs
tertiary period
✓✓✓✓~ cretaceous-tertiary extinction, mammals thrive
quaternary period
✓✓✓✓~ rise of humans
anthropocene
✓✓✓✓~ new epoch declared in 2016
lithosphere
, ✓✓✓✓~ uppermost mantle and overlying crust, tectonic plates
asthenosphere
✓✓✓✓~ weaker region in mantle below lithosphere
continental drift evidence
✓✓✓✓~ fit of continents, ancient ice ages, fossils, paleomagnetics, rock types and
structures
plate tectonics
✓✓✓✓~ lithospheric plates move relative to one another, driven by convection in mantle, 2-
5cm/yr
hotspots
✓✓✓✓~ dynamic crust moves over stationary plumes of molten magma in mantle, hawaii
divergent boundary
✓✓✓✓~ two plates move apart, new seafloor come sup, mostly at ocean ridges and rift
valleys, iceland
transform boundary
And Answers
Triple Bottom Line
✓✓✓✓~ people, planet, profit
nebular hypothesis
✓✓✓✓~ bodies in solar system evolved from solar nebula
earth forms
✓✓✓✓~ 4.6-4.5 bya
Earth's internal structure
✓✓✓✓~ crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
time periods
✓✓✓✓~ eon, era, period, epoch
phanerozoic eon
,✓✓✓✓~ paleozoic, mesozoic, cenozoic eras
radiometric dating
✓✓✓✓~ calculating ages of rocks and minerals that contain a particular isotope
relative dating
✓✓✓✓~ principle of fossil succession, law of superposition
first life
✓✓✓✓~ 4 bya, anerobic archaea, archaen eon
stromatolites
✓✓✓✓~ bacterial colonies, archaen eon
proterozoic eon
✓✓✓✓~ oxygenation, major ice age, first great extinction
ordovician period
✓✓✓✓~ major extinction due to ice age
,carboniferous period
✓✓✓✓~ age of coal, large forests
permian period
✓✓✓✓~ pangea forms(breaks up in triassic), permian extinction
mezozoic era
✓✓✓✓~ age of dinosaurs
tertiary period
✓✓✓✓~ cretaceous-tertiary extinction, mammals thrive
quaternary period
✓✓✓✓~ rise of humans
anthropocene
✓✓✓✓~ new epoch declared in 2016
lithosphere
, ✓✓✓✓~ uppermost mantle and overlying crust, tectonic plates
asthenosphere
✓✓✓✓~ weaker region in mantle below lithosphere
continental drift evidence
✓✓✓✓~ fit of continents, ancient ice ages, fossils, paleomagnetics, rock types and
structures
plate tectonics
✓✓✓✓~ lithospheric plates move relative to one another, driven by convection in mantle, 2-
5cm/yr
hotspots
✓✓✓✓~ dynamic crust moves over stationary plumes of molten magma in mantle, hawaii
divergent boundary
✓✓✓✓~ two plates move apart, new seafloor come sup, mostly at ocean ridges and rift
valleys, iceland
transform boundary
