Geology 105 Final Exam: Chadwick
(COMBO) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. ______ and ______ collided to shape the supercontinent pangea and the _______
mountain variety. - ANSWER-Gondwana, Laurentia, Appalachian
2. "Age of the Dinosaurs" - ANSWER-Mesozoic
3. "Seed Ferns" - ANSWER-First seeds evolved on this organization
4. "Time of Dinosaurs" - ANSWER-Triassic period
5. # of galaxies and # of stars in our galaxy - ANSWER-a hundred billion galaxies; three
hundred billion stars in our galaxy
6. 0 half life % of discern and daughter - ANSWER-one hundred% determine
7. 1 half life % of figure and daughter - ANSWER-50% determine 50% daughter
8. half of of a 1/2 life % of figure and daughter - ANSWER-75% parent 25% daughter
9. 2 domains of prokaryotes and their traits - ANSWER-1. Bacteria (cyanobacteria: make
their personal food)
2. Archae (thermophiles: stay in high salt/ acidic environments
10.2 half lives % of determine and daughter - ANSWER-25% determine 75% daughter
11.2 people who documented affiliation between position of central rift valley of mid-Atlantic
ridge & 34,000 mile lengthy sample of slight ocean floor earthquakes -
ANSWER-Heezen and Ewing
12.3 early theories of the formation of the moon - ANSWER-1. Fission principle: the
moon is a chunk of magma that flung off from the earth
2. Capture theory: moon formed one by one and it handed the earth and swung
into its orbit
3. Co-accretion idea: moon formed from a huge cloud of leftover debri from earths
orbit
13.three half of lives % of determine and daughter - ANSWER-12.Five% figure 87.Five%
daughter
14.three strategies of radioactive decay - ANSWER-1. Alpha decay
2. Beta decay
three. Electron capture
15.4 eons so as from oldest to youngest - ANSWER-1. Hadean 2. Archean 3. Proterozoic
four. Phanerozoic
16.four maximum not unusual elements in the planet - ANSWER-Fe, O, Si, Mg
17.a shift in the quantity of carbon 13 and carbon 12 in rocks from greenland which might
be three.Eighty three billion years antique are the earliest evidence for______- -
ANSWER-life on this planet
18.Acadian Orogeny - ANSWER-2d Appalachian Mountains formation
- Avalonia Volvanic Arc shaped
-Exotic land added to a continent due to dontinental movement
-Tippecanoe transgression peaks
-Baltica collides with Laurentia and Gondwana closes in
,19.Acanthodians - ANSWER-First jawed vertebrate fish
20.after two half lives, ________ of a figure isotope has decayed to the daughter isotope. -
ANSWER-25%
21.age of earth - ANSWER-4.6 billion years vintage
22.Albedo - ANSWER-Fraction of Solar strength contemplated from the Earth back
into area
-Measure of the reflectivity of the earth's floor
-Dark oceans (LOW ALBEDO) absorb daylight
-Ice (HIGH ALBEDO) reflects daylight lower back into space
23.Algae and plant life eat 6 molecules of _____ ______ plus 6 molecules of water to make
one molecule of sugar glucose and 6 molecules of oxygen as a byproduct -
ANSWER-Carbon Dioxide
24.all of the planets are orbiting within the equal path and inside the equal aircraft referred
to as the ____ plane - ANSWER-ecliptic
25.Alleghanian Orogeny - ANSWER-Pennsylvanian
-Gondwana collision begins, predominant glaciation of Gondwana happens
- third Appalachian Mountain bureaucracy
-Began in Carboniferous, finished in Permian
26.Amniote Eggs - ANSWER-Hard-shelled outside eggs and scales: Class Reptilia
27.Amphibians - ANSWER-First vertebrates on land
28.An ice-like aggregate of water and methane fuel that bureaucracy outcrops under the
deep oceans is referred to as ______. - ANSWER-Methane Calthrate
29.Ancanthodians - ANSWER-First jaws
-Vertebrate jaw: Modified gill arches
30.Angular momentum - ANSWER-A quantity measured by way of a aggregate of two
familiar round motions
31.Animal Phyla (2 examples) - ANSWER-Chordates (vertebrates): fish, amphibians,
reptiles, birds, mammals, HAVE SPINAL CHORD
Arthropods: bugs, spiders, trilobites, centipedes, crustaceans
32.Ankylosaurs - ANSWER-Thick armor plating of fused bone, frequently with spikes
Some species had armored eyelids
Evolution made large toothy, spiky species
33.Antler Orogeny - ANSWER-Mississippian
-Rocky Mountains form
34.archaen cratons are largely product of a granite called_____: - ANSWER-tonalite
35.Archosaur - ANSWER-Reptile that have become dominant land vertebrates in early
Triassic
36.Ardipithecus - ANSWER-Early Hominid
4.Four M.Y.
"Ardi"
Walked upright but could also climb trees
37.Atmosphere - ANSWER-The gases that surround the planet (climate, climate)
Thin veil over the earth (99% lies beneath 19 miles)
38.atomic variety is the quantity of: - ANSWER-protons
, 39.banded iron formation from Archean deposits are: - ANSWER-dissolved iron within
the ocean that blended with oxygen to form layers
40.Banded Iron Formations - ANSWER--Iron weathered from rocks and dissolved into
the oceans
41.-Oxygen bonded with the dissolved iron to provide BIF's inside the backside of the sea
and form a sedimentary rock layer
42.-Oxygen gathered inside the ecosystem
43.-Began to oxidize "rust" the iron within the continental crimson beds
44.Barriers to living on land - ANSWER-Desiccation (skin drying out)
45.Reproduction
46.Gravity
47.Lungs
48.Basin and Range Extension - ANSWER-Began 30-40 million years in the past, after
Laramide and Sevier Orognies
49.-Accompanied by way of lots of volcanism
50.Benthic - ANSWER-On the ocean floor, sessile or cell
51.Bering land bridge - ANSWER-Elephants and rhinos cross east, pass horses and camels
on their way to Eurasia
52.Big Bang principle - ANSWER-The universe originated in a singularity and we do not
now why it passed off
53.Biomineralization - ANSWER-The system with the aid of which living organisms produce
minerals, frequently harden or stiffen present tissues
54.Biosphere - ANSWER-All residing matters (plant life, animals)
55.Body Fossils - ANSWER-A form of fossil. Shells, bones, enamel.
56.Breccia - ANSWER-Poorly rounded and poorly taken care of
57.Alluvial lovers
58.Burgess Shale - ANSWER-A 505 million year antique site in British Columbia whose
extraordinary tender bodied fossils had been made well-known in Stephen Jay Goud's
Wonderful Life
59.by the give up of the archaen, about ___ of the modern-day continental areas had
fashioned: - ANSWER-40%
60.Cambrian Adaptive Radiation - ANSWER-First abundant animals seem with tough
shells, skeletons and teeth
61.Small, difficult, calcium carbonate tubes
62.Cambrian explosion - ANSWER-Most modern animal phyla- over 900 species thus far
63.Dramatic increase in style of existence
64.Carboniferous Period - ANSWER-Mississippian and Pennsylvanian
65.Carboniferous length - ANSWER-The 1/3 brilliant oxidation event takes vicinity right here
66.-Increase in oxygen due to carbon wealthy black coal starting to form by stress-cooking
of useless flowers
67.Cartilagenous Fish - ANSWER-Sharks, rays, skates nowadays
68.Casts - ANSWER-A type of fossil. Minerals or sediments fill space of decayed stays, a
replica of the original
(COMBO) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. ______ and ______ collided to shape the supercontinent pangea and the _______
mountain variety. - ANSWER-Gondwana, Laurentia, Appalachian
2. "Age of the Dinosaurs" - ANSWER-Mesozoic
3. "Seed Ferns" - ANSWER-First seeds evolved on this organization
4. "Time of Dinosaurs" - ANSWER-Triassic period
5. # of galaxies and # of stars in our galaxy - ANSWER-a hundred billion galaxies; three
hundred billion stars in our galaxy
6. 0 half life % of discern and daughter - ANSWER-one hundred% determine
7. 1 half life % of figure and daughter - ANSWER-50% determine 50% daughter
8. half of of a 1/2 life % of figure and daughter - ANSWER-75% parent 25% daughter
9. 2 domains of prokaryotes and their traits - ANSWER-1. Bacteria (cyanobacteria: make
their personal food)
2. Archae (thermophiles: stay in high salt/ acidic environments
10.2 half lives % of determine and daughter - ANSWER-25% determine 75% daughter
11.2 people who documented affiliation between position of central rift valley of mid-Atlantic
ridge & 34,000 mile lengthy sample of slight ocean floor earthquakes -
ANSWER-Heezen and Ewing
12.3 early theories of the formation of the moon - ANSWER-1. Fission principle: the
moon is a chunk of magma that flung off from the earth
2. Capture theory: moon formed one by one and it handed the earth and swung
into its orbit
3. Co-accretion idea: moon formed from a huge cloud of leftover debri from earths
orbit
13.three half of lives % of determine and daughter - ANSWER-12.Five% figure 87.Five%
daughter
14.three strategies of radioactive decay - ANSWER-1. Alpha decay
2. Beta decay
three. Electron capture
15.4 eons so as from oldest to youngest - ANSWER-1. Hadean 2. Archean 3. Proterozoic
four. Phanerozoic
16.four maximum not unusual elements in the planet - ANSWER-Fe, O, Si, Mg
17.a shift in the quantity of carbon 13 and carbon 12 in rocks from greenland which might
be three.Eighty three billion years antique are the earliest evidence for______- -
ANSWER-life on this planet
18.Acadian Orogeny - ANSWER-2d Appalachian Mountains formation
- Avalonia Volvanic Arc shaped
-Exotic land added to a continent due to dontinental movement
-Tippecanoe transgression peaks
-Baltica collides with Laurentia and Gondwana closes in
,19.Acanthodians - ANSWER-First jawed vertebrate fish
20.after two half lives, ________ of a figure isotope has decayed to the daughter isotope. -
ANSWER-25%
21.age of earth - ANSWER-4.6 billion years vintage
22.Albedo - ANSWER-Fraction of Solar strength contemplated from the Earth back
into area
-Measure of the reflectivity of the earth's floor
-Dark oceans (LOW ALBEDO) absorb daylight
-Ice (HIGH ALBEDO) reflects daylight lower back into space
23.Algae and plant life eat 6 molecules of _____ ______ plus 6 molecules of water to make
one molecule of sugar glucose and 6 molecules of oxygen as a byproduct -
ANSWER-Carbon Dioxide
24.all of the planets are orbiting within the equal path and inside the equal aircraft referred
to as the ____ plane - ANSWER-ecliptic
25.Alleghanian Orogeny - ANSWER-Pennsylvanian
-Gondwana collision begins, predominant glaciation of Gondwana happens
- third Appalachian Mountain bureaucracy
-Began in Carboniferous, finished in Permian
26.Amniote Eggs - ANSWER-Hard-shelled outside eggs and scales: Class Reptilia
27.Amphibians - ANSWER-First vertebrates on land
28.An ice-like aggregate of water and methane fuel that bureaucracy outcrops under the
deep oceans is referred to as ______. - ANSWER-Methane Calthrate
29.Ancanthodians - ANSWER-First jaws
-Vertebrate jaw: Modified gill arches
30.Angular momentum - ANSWER-A quantity measured by way of a aggregate of two
familiar round motions
31.Animal Phyla (2 examples) - ANSWER-Chordates (vertebrates): fish, amphibians,
reptiles, birds, mammals, HAVE SPINAL CHORD
Arthropods: bugs, spiders, trilobites, centipedes, crustaceans
32.Ankylosaurs - ANSWER-Thick armor plating of fused bone, frequently with spikes
Some species had armored eyelids
Evolution made large toothy, spiky species
33.Antler Orogeny - ANSWER-Mississippian
-Rocky Mountains form
34.archaen cratons are largely product of a granite called_____: - ANSWER-tonalite
35.Archosaur - ANSWER-Reptile that have become dominant land vertebrates in early
Triassic
36.Ardipithecus - ANSWER-Early Hominid
4.Four M.Y.
"Ardi"
Walked upright but could also climb trees
37.Atmosphere - ANSWER-The gases that surround the planet (climate, climate)
Thin veil over the earth (99% lies beneath 19 miles)
38.atomic variety is the quantity of: - ANSWER-protons
, 39.banded iron formation from Archean deposits are: - ANSWER-dissolved iron within
the ocean that blended with oxygen to form layers
40.Banded Iron Formations - ANSWER--Iron weathered from rocks and dissolved into
the oceans
41.-Oxygen bonded with the dissolved iron to provide BIF's inside the backside of the sea
and form a sedimentary rock layer
42.-Oxygen gathered inside the ecosystem
43.-Began to oxidize "rust" the iron within the continental crimson beds
44.Barriers to living on land - ANSWER-Desiccation (skin drying out)
45.Reproduction
46.Gravity
47.Lungs
48.Basin and Range Extension - ANSWER-Began 30-40 million years in the past, after
Laramide and Sevier Orognies
49.-Accompanied by way of lots of volcanism
50.Benthic - ANSWER-On the ocean floor, sessile or cell
51.Bering land bridge - ANSWER-Elephants and rhinos cross east, pass horses and camels
on their way to Eurasia
52.Big Bang principle - ANSWER-The universe originated in a singularity and we do not
now why it passed off
53.Biomineralization - ANSWER-The system with the aid of which living organisms produce
minerals, frequently harden or stiffen present tissues
54.Biosphere - ANSWER-All residing matters (plant life, animals)
55.Body Fossils - ANSWER-A form of fossil. Shells, bones, enamel.
56.Breccia - ANSWER-Poorly rounded and poorly taken care of
57.Alluvial lovers
58.Burgess Shale - ANSWER-A 505 million year antique site in British Columbia whose
extraordinary tender bodied fossils had been made well-known in Stephen Jay Goud's
Wonderful Life
59.by the give up of the archaen, about ___ of the modern-day continental areas had
fashioned: - ANSWER-40%
60.Cambrian Adaptive Radiation - ANSWER-First abundant animals seem with tough
shells, skeletons and teeth
61.Small, difficult, calcium carbonate tubes
62.Cambrian explosion - ANSWER-Most modern animal phyla- over 900 species thus far
63.Dramatic increase in style of existence
64.Carboniferous Period - ANSWER-Mississippian and Pennsylvanian
65.Carboniferous length - ANSWER-The 1/3 brilliant oxidation event takes vicinity right here
66.-Increase in oxygen due to carbon wealthy black coal starting to form by stress-cooking
of useless flowers
67.Cartilagenous Fish - ANSWER-Sharks, rays, skates nowadays
68.Casts - ANSWER-A type of fossil. Minerals or sediments fill space of decayed stays, a
replica of the original
