KIN 250 Study Guide - Final Guide: Spheroid, Metamorphic Rock, Oceanic Crust
Document Summary
Study guide: understanding the earth as a planet. Earth characteristics (2. 1) (oblate spheroid) (crust, mantle, outer core, inner core) (moho, lithosphere, asthenosphere) (magnetosphere, gravity) (relief) (eratosthenes and the earth"s circumference) Stress and strain (11. 1) (isostatic adjustment) (geosyncline) (compression, tension, shearing) (folding and faulting) (anticlines, synclines, monoclines) (normal, reverse, transform faults) (hanging and foot walls, fault planes) Mountain building (11. 2) (folded, fault-block, volcanic and dome mts. ) (geographic examples of mt. types) Recording earthquakes (12. 2) (s, p, l waves) (lag time and distance to epicenters) (richter, mercalli scales) Volcanic eruptions (13. 2) (mafic and felsic lava) (kinds of volcanoes and eruptions) (pyroclastic material - size and examples) (craters, calderas) 3000, 20, 10, 2) (silicates, non-silicates) (silicon-oxygen tetrahedron) (examples) Mineral i. d. (5. 2) (color, luster, streak, cleavage, hardness, crystal shape)3. Rock cycle (6. 1) (types of rock and how formed) Igneous rock (6. 2) (intrusive and extrusive) (coarse grained, fine grained) (examples) Sedimentary rock (6. 3) (clastic, organic, chemical) (examples) (strata, fossils)
