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GLY 2010 Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers 100% Solved Asthenosphere - Upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere. This is where rocks become plastic and are easily deformed. Climate - The weather condition prevailing in an area in general or over a long period of time Cl...

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Asthenosphere - ✔✔Upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the

lithosphere. This is where rocks become plastic and are easily deformed.

Climate - ✔✔The weather condition prevailing in an area in general or over

a long period of time

Climate System - ✔✔Complex, interactive system consisting of the

atmosphere, land surface, snow and ice, oceans and other bodies of water

and living things

Convection - ✔✔The process in liquids and gases by which hot, less dense

materials rise upward, being replaced by cold, downward flowing fluids to

create a convection current

Core - ✔✔The spherical mass, largely of metallic iron, with admixtures of

nickel, sulfur, silicon, and other elements at the center of the earth

Crust - ✔✔The outermost and thinnest of the Earth's layers, which consists

of rocky matter that is less dense the rocks of the mantle below

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Earth system - ✔✔An open system, which involves all part of our planet

and all of the interactions of those parts (climate system, plate tectonic

system and geodynamo system)

Fossil - ✔✔The naturally preserved remains of traces of an animal or plant

Geodesy - ✔✔study of Earth's shape and surface

Geodynamo - ✔✔Rapid motion of the liquid outer core stirs up electrical

flow in the solid inner core, causing Earth's magnetic field

Geological record - ✔✔Powerpoint

Geology - ✔✔The science of Earth

Geosystem - ✔✔The study of the natural features of the earth's surface,

especially in its current aspects, such as land formations, climate, etc

Inner core - ✔✔Earth's innermost part of a core, so a solid sphere in the

middle of the fluid core

Lithosphere - ✔✔The outer 100km of the solid Earth, where rocks are

harder more rigid than those in the plastic asthenosphere

Magnetic field - ✔✔Magnetic lines of force surrounding the Earth

Mantle - ✔✔The thick shell of dense, rocky matter that surrounds the core

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Outer Core - ✔✔A liquid layer about 2300 km thick and composed of iron

and nickle that lies above Earth's solid inner core and below it's mantle

Plate tectonic system - ✔✔Hot matter from mantle rises causing plates to

form and diverge. So wherever that plate converges a cooled plate is

dragged underneath it. It then sinks, warms and rises again

Principle of uniformitarianism - ✔✔The same external and internal

processes we recognize in action today have been operating unchanged,

though at different rates, throughout most of the Earth's history

Scientific method - ✔✔Question or Observe, Hypothesis, Experiment,

Analyze Data, and create conclusion



Goal for GLY2010: Explain how the universe works

Seismic wave - ✔✔An elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake

or other earth vibrations that travel through earth's SA.

Topography - ✔✔The relief and form of the land , Earth is about 20 km

from highest to lowest

Earth's layers: - ✔✔

Continental drift - ✔✔The slow, lateral movements of continents across the

surface of earth

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