Geological - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What are the 4 disciplines of Oceanography? - correct answerPhysical, Geological, chemical, biological What percent of earth's water is salt water? - correct answer97.5% What percent of earth's water is fresh? - correct answer2.5 What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered in water? - correct answer71% What is the avg. depth of the ocean? - correct answer3,800 m What is the largest ocean? - correct answerPacific Ocean what is the deepest ocean? - correct answerp...

ENL1501 Assignment 1 Semester 1 2024 (Solutions) Question 1 Answer saved Marked out of 1.00 Flag question Question text How can packaging support the environment? a. By providing clear environmental information b. By using excessive materials c. By making products more expensive d. By being visually unappealing Clear my choice Question 2 Answer saved Marked out of 1.00 Flag question Question text What is the primary role of air for bioresources? a. Providing structural s...

TEST BANK for Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness 3rd Edition An Introductory Text for Emergency Management and Planning Professionals by Dylan Sandler and Anna K. Schwab. All 13 Ch apters. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Hazards and Disasters Chapter 2: Preparedness, Hazard Mitigation, and Climate Change Part 1 Introduction Chapter 3: Meteorological and Hydrological Hazards: Hurricanes, Sea Level Rise, Floods, Drought, Wildfire, Tornadoes, Severe Winter Weather, and Extreme Heat Chapter 4: Geologic...

GEOLOGICAL TIME TEST QUESTIONS

The Earth's upper mantle is mainly made of peridotite, an ultramafic igneous rock with lots of olivine crystals. Which type of magma can be produced when the upper mantle undergoes decompression melting of the upper mantle peridotite at mid-ocean ridges? - correct answer -Basaltic Seismic studies of the earth have shown that the platnet's interior is made of a few layers with distinct seismic signatures and chemical compositions. The major layers of the planet include (from innermost to the...

Edexcel A Level Geography - The carbon cycle and energy security Exam Questions With Solutions (carbon) Flux - ANS Transfer of carbon from one 'pool' to another (carbon) store - ANS An accumulation of carbon Biosphere - ANS The regions of the surface and atmosphere of the earth occupied by living organisms Photosynthesis - ANS The process by which carbon atoms in the atmosphere move into trees and plants, plants use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from CO2 and water ...

Natural Event Geological or atmospheric processes involving the release of energy and has nothing to do with people. Geological is due to the hot interior of the Earth and can be expressed as volcanoes. Atmospheric type of energy is the product of solar energy which can be expressed as tornadoes. Characteristics of a Natural Disaster (5) geological, atmospheric, magnitude, frequency, duration, areal extent Recurrence interval time between same sized events (150 years) frequency 1/recurrenc...

Earth Science Exam Review 2024 with Complete Solutions seismic waves - Correct Answer ️️ -Vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake. crust - Correct Answer ️️ -the outer layer of the Earth mantle - Correct Answer ️️ -the layer of hot, solid material between Earth's crust and core lithosphere - Correct Answer ️️ -the solid, outer layer of the earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle asthenosphere ...

APSC 151 Exam Prep Questions and Answers 100% CorrectAPSC 151 Exam Prep Questions and Answers 100% CorrectAPSC 151 Exam Prep Questions and Answers 100% CorrectAPSC 151 Exam Prep Questions and Answers 100% CorrectHydrosphere - ANSWER-Geological zone that includes Oceans, glacial ice and freshwater Catastrophism - ANSWER-One big sudden change - only true for meteor impacts. Shaping Earth's landscape by catastrophes. Uniformitarianism - ANSWER-Charles Lyell's idea that geologic processes ha...

ASBOG GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2023/2024 Asthenosphere - correct answer Under the lithosphere, it is the weak upper mantle where isostatic adjustments are made, magma generated, and seismic waves are strongly attenuated Attenuation - correct answer A reduction in the amplitude of seismic waves produced by divergance, scattering, reflection, and absorption Avalanche - correct answer A large mass of snow, ice, rock, of mixtures of the above, falling, slid...