GLY 1102 Exam 1 Questions and Answers Latest Version 2025 Already Passed
The Indian-Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate - Answers Using the velocity arrows, which two plates
appear to be moving the most
convergent - Answers what type of boundary exists between the Indian-Australian and Pacific plates?
earthquakes and volcanoes - Answers what kind of geologic features would you expect to lie along the
boundary of a convergent plate?
about 2.5 centimeters per year - Answers What is the rate of movement for North America?
close to land - Answers a scientific ship that can extract rocks from the seafloor
South of the Hawaiian Islands - Answers say you were looking for oceanic crust that formed in the
Cretaceous. Where would you look?
mass extinction - Answers The first true dinosaurs appear in the fossil record 200 million years ago, after
what major event?
a rift valley flooded with seawater - Answers What new features emerge in the Late Triassic in modern
day North America and Africa
between 105 and a 120 million years ago - Answers When did South America and Africa separate into
two different continents?
Florida is underwater during this whole time - Answers Why wasn't there fossils 105 million years ago in
Florida?
These locations were once part of the same continent range - Answers What do the landscapes of
Birmingham and Caracas have in common 240 million years ago?
Sea level was significantly higher during the Cretaceous - Answers How would you describe the change
in sea level 150 and 105 million year mark?
0 mya - Answers When was the North and South American continent re-connected?
each of these locations were underwater sometime in the past - Answers what do "plesiosaurus" fossil
places have in common?
creates a 2D film of residue where an organic object used to be - Answers carbonization is a type of
fossilization that
minerals dissolved in groundwater precipitating ( crystalizing) in/on the bones - Answers the minerals
that replace organic content in buried bones come from:
The Indian-Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate - Answers Using the velocity arrows, which two plates
appear to be moving the most
convergent - Answers what type of boundary exists between the Indian-Australian and Pacific plates?
earthquakes and volcanoes - Answers what kind of geologic features would you expect to lie along the
boundary of a convergent plate?
about 2.5 centimeters per year - Answers What is the rate of movement for North America?
close to land - Answers a scientific ship that can extract rocks from the seafloor
South of the Hawaiian Islands - Answers say you were looking for oceanic crust that formed in the
Cretaceous. Where would you look?
mass extinction - Answers The first true dinosaurs appear in the fossil record 200 million years ago, after
what major event?
a rift valley flooded with seawater - Answers What new features emerge in the Late Triassic in modern
day North America and Africa
between 105 and a 120 million years ago - Answers When did South America and Africa separate into
two different continents?
Florida is underwater during this whole time - Answers Why wasn't there fossils 105 million years ago in
Florida?
These locations were once part of the same continent range - Answers What do the landscapes of
Birmingham and Caracas have in common 240 million years ago?
Sea level was significantly higher during the Cretaceous - Answers How would you describe the change
in sea level 150 and 105 million year mark?
0 mya - Answers When was the North and South American continent re-connected?
each of these locations were underwater sometime in the past - Answers what do "plesiosaurus" fossil
places have in common?
creates a 2D film of residue where an organic object used to be - Answers carbonization is a type of
fossilization that
minerals dissolved in groundwater precipitating ( crystalizing) in/on the bones - Answers the minerals
that replace organic content in buried bones come from:
