Geol 1403 Final Review Blinn College
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Tsunami - ✔✔Destructive waves that result from vertical displacement along a
fault located on the ocean floor.
Liquifaction - ✔✔Unconsolidated material saturated with water that turns into
a mobile fluid.
Magnitude - ✔✔estimates the amount of energy released at the source of the
earthquake.
Intensity - ✔✔Measure of the degree of the earthquake based on the amount of
damage.
L-Wave - ✔✔Surface wave, slowest, cause the most destuction
S-wave - ✔✔"Secondary" Shake motion
P-Wave - ✔✔"Primary" Push-pull motion
Epicenter - ✔✔Location on earth surface of focus
Focus - ✔✔Source of earthquake
San Andreas is a ______ Fualt - ✔✔Transform
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,Bathymetry - ✔✔Measurement of ocean depth and charting of the shape of the
ocean floor.
Echo Sounder - ✔✔Sound waves bouncing off objects to measure the ocean
depth.
Side Scanning Sonar - ✔✔Towed behind a boat. maps the ocean floor, emits
sound waves in a fan shape.
Multibeam Sonar - ✔✔Hull mounted sound sources that send out a fan of sound
waves cover a larger width an can measure depth and can map the ocean floor.
Seismic Reflection Profiling - ✔✔Viewing the rock structure beneath the ocean
sediments. will not measure depth.
Satellites - ✔✔Measures the oceans surface and looks for changes to predict
whats down there.
Passive continental Margins - ✔✔Away from a plate boundary,no active
volcanism, no earthquakes. (Atlantic Ocean)
Layer 1 - ✔✔Unconsolidated sediment
Layer 2 - ✔✔Pillow basalts
Layer 3 - ✔✔Interconnected dikes
Layer 4 - ✔✔Gabbro & Layered Gabbro
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, Stream - ✔✔Any water that flows in a channel
Bed Load - ✔✔Material that jumps or slides or rolls along the bottom.
Suspended Load - ✔✔Material in suspention
Dissolved Load - ✔✔Material in solution
Meandering - ✔✔
Braided - ✔✔
Graded Stream - ✔✔Has necessary slope and other channel characteristics to
maintain the minimum velocity required to transport material downstream.
Groundwater - ✔✔Water found in the pores of sediment
Zone of Soil Moisture - ✔✔Water held by molecular attraction on soil particles
in the near surface zone
Unsaturated Zone - ✔✔Water cannot be pumped from here (Vadose Zone)
Zone of Saturation - ✔✔All open spaces in sediment and rock are filled with
water
Water Table - ✔✔Upper limit of the zone
Capillary Fringe - ✔✔Above the water table
Aquifer - ✔✔High Porosity, hige Perm, grand and gravel, Water can pass threw
Aquitard - ✔✔Low perm, barrier to water, Clay and Shale
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Exam Questions with 100% Correct
Answers
Tsunami - ✔✔Destructive waves that result from vertical displacement along a
fault located on the ocean floor.
Liquifaction - ✔✔Unconsolidated material saturated with water that turns into
a mobile fluid.
Magnitude - ✔✔estimates the amount of energy released at the source of the
earthquake.
Intensity - ✔✔Measure of the degree of the earthquake based on the amount of
damage.
L-Wave - ✔✔Surface wave, slowest, cause the most destuction
S-wave - ✔✔"Secondary" Shake motion
P-Wave - ✔✔"Primary" Push-pull motion
Epicenter - ✔✔Location on earth surface of focus
Focus - ✔✔Source of earthquake
San Andreas is a ______ Fualt - ✔✔Transform
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,Bathymetry - ✔✔Measurement of ocean depth and charting of the shape of the
ocean floor.
Echo Sounder - ✔✔Sound waves bouncing off objects to measure the ocean
depth.
Side Scanning Sonar - ✔✔Towed behind a boat. maps the ocean floor, emits
sound waves in a fan shape.
Multibeam Sonar - ✔✔Hull mounted sound sources that send out a fan of sound
waves cover a larger width an can measure depth and can map the ocean floor.
Seismic Reflection Profiling - ✔✔Viewing the rock structure beneath the ocean
sediments. will not measure depth.
Satellites - ✔✔Measures the oceans surface and looks for changes to predict
whats down there.
Passive continental Margins - ✔✔Away from a plate boundary,no active
volcanism, no earthquakes. (Atlantic Ocean)
Layer 1 - ✔✔Unconsolidated sediment
Layer 2 - ✔✔Pillow basalts
Layer 3 - ✔✔Interconnected dikes
Layer 4 - ✔✔Gabbro & Layered Gabbro
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, Stream - ✔✔Any water that flows in a channel
Bed Load - ✔✔Material that jumps or slides or rolls along the bottom.
Suspended Load - ✔✔Material in suspention
Dissolved Load - ✔✔Material in solution
Meandering - ✔✔
Braided - ✔✔
Graded Stream - ✔✔Has necessary slope and other channel characteristics to
maintain the minimum velocity required to transport material downstream.
Groundwater - ✔✔Water found in the pores of sediment
Zone of Soil Moisture - ✔✔Water held by molecular attraction on soil particles
in the near surface zone
Unsaturated Zone - ✔✔Water cannot be pumped from here (Vadose Zone)
Zone of Saturation - ✔✔All open spaces in sediment and rock are filled with
water
Water Table - ✔✔Upper limit of the zone
Capillary Fringe - ✔✔Above the water table
Aquifer - ✔✔High Porosity, hige Perm, grand and gravel, Water can pass threw
Aquitard - ✔✔Low perm, barrier to water, Clay and Shale
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