EESA06H3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Earthquake, Continental Crust, Subduction
20 Nov 2018
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Focus on how our planet works and how it"s changed through earth history. Processes that occur on the surface of planet, affects everybody. Why do eesa06? knowing how the earth works is significant to managing environmental challenges. Creating order of events in earth"s history. Ex: in science, dna and radiography were a paradigm. North america is moving about 3. 7cm a year towards southwest. It can be on the move horizontally or vertically. Small changes over long periods of time result in massive alteration of the earth"s surface. 250 million years ago, all continents were clustered together. We"re going to see the reversal of what"s happened over course of time. Supercontinent cycle outcrops : when you can actually see the rocks out in the field. What do those rocks say about the history of the earth. Core when you can just see sediments of what"s left over. Vector shows rate and direction of movement of an object.
