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Identity - Answer The elements that make up the view that people take of themselves. "Who am I": sensibilities developed around various axes. Axes of identity - Answer (1) Class: socio-economic, educational (2) Gender (3) Ethnicity (4) Race (5) Sexual orientation (6) Ability (7) Country origin (8) Culture (9) Language (10) Religious belief & religiosity (11) Political view (12) Age (13) Generation (14) Experiences (15) Awareness (understanding & ap...

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1.Intro - Answer Why study geology? - Answer Geology deals with the composition of Earth materials, Earth structures, and Earth processes. It is also concerned with the organisms of the planet and how the planet has changed over time. What do Earth scientists do? - Answer Geologists search for fuels and minerals, study natural hazards, and work to protect Earth's environment. 2. North America: Origins (know the answers to handout #2a questions) - Answer 3...

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Sandstone desert - Answer Circle the correct rock type (sandstone or limestone) and environment of formation (desert or shallow seas) for the Esplanade at the top of the Grand Canyon underwater - Answer What do fossils in the ~340-million-year-old limestone below this layer tell us about the environment at which it was deposited? more than one billion years old - Answer How old are the oldest rocks (granodiorite) exposed in the Grand Canyon? (10,000 years, 10 million y...

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Geohazard - Answer Earth processes involving the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere, which releases large amounts of energy Natural disaster - Answer A geohazard interaction with human activity causing loss of life and property The human element - Answer Causes geohazards become more important every year What makes the Human Element important? - Answer Hyper-concentration and population increase Percentage of people who live in urban environments - An...

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shoaling - Answer process of wave height increases and breaking -KE-PE -occurs further from land Tsunami Damage (depends on): - Answer -size of the event -offshore bathymetry -distance of coast from triggering event -coastal geomorphology -coastal orientation -state of the tides at the time of the tsunami offshore bathymetry - Answer shoaling can occur in different locations or sooner/later coastal geomorphology - Answer irregular coastline can concentrate...

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On a 1:125,000-scale map, one inch represents what distance on the ground? - Answer 1.97 miles A mile on the ground would be what distance (in inches) on a 1:50,000 scale topographic map? - Answer 1.26 inches In what year was the magnetic declination measured? - Answer 1958 This topographic quadrangle map was compiled from aerial photographs taken in - Answer 1955 What is the fractional scale of the topographic map? - Answer 1/24,000 How can the ratio...

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The nature of the movement of earthquakes is both ___and ___ - Answer horizontal & vertical Focus - Answer Actual point where movement takes place The closer the focus is to the surface the ____ the power of the quake - Answer Higher Epicenter - Answer Point on the surface directly above the focus of the earth quake Triangulation - Answer Used to pinpoint the epicenter of the earthquake, Time Travel Curve - Answer Represents the distance covered...

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What increases the driving force (gravity) - Answer the downslope component of the weight of the slope material; a steep slope will increase it How do we increase slope angle? - Answer remove lateral support How does water reduce resistance to flow? - Answer increases pore pressure, provides surface for soil movement, enhances weathering and erodes slope Liquefaction - Answer lateral spread of water-saturated ground triggers for slope failure - Answer in...

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age of earth and solar system - Answer 4.6 billion (Ga) years age of universe - Answer 14 billion years rocky inner terrestrial planets - Answer mercury, Venus, earth, mars Giant Impact Hypothesis - Answer explains the origin of earth's moon as part of the residue of a collision with another body that earth's gravitation pulled into orbit How does the moon influence the earth? - Answer seasons, orbital stability, tides earth's magnetic field ...

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Boundaries in the geologic time scale are associated with what events? - Answer mass extinctions Which of the following is true about groundwater and surface water? Select the single best response. - Answer A. Surface water feeds groundwater by infiltrating through pore space. B. Groundwater feeds surface water at springs. C. Both A and B are possible. The first happens when the water table is underground and the second happens when the land surface intersects the water tabl...

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Know some important geologic "dates" such as the age of the Earth, the age of the Universe, or when the dinosaurs went extinct. - Answer age of the earth - 4.54 billion years old age of the universe - 13.8-billion-year-old when the dinosaurs went extinct - 65 million years ago Be familiar with the overall structure of the Earth, and know what kind of material makes up each of the Earth's major layers. - Answer The overall structure of the Earth consists of the core...

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earth processes involving the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere, which releases large amounts of energy - Answer Geohazard a geohazard interaction with human activity causing loss of life and property - Answer natural disaster because of ____, geohazards become more important every year - Answer the human element human element is crucial b/c - Answer population increase, hyper-concentration (of people) % of people who live in urban environments - Ans...

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