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Semester 1 Review Jeopardy

Semester 1 Review Jeopardy. Which law tells us that a fault or igneous intrusion is always younger than the rock layers it cuts through?. Answer. The Law of Crosscutting Relationships. Home. Evidence that an animal was once in a place like footprints or burrows?. Answer. Trace Fossils.

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Semester 1 Review Jeopardy

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  1. Semester 1 Review Jeopardy

  2. Which law tells us that a fault or igneous intrusion is always younger than the rock layers it cuts through? Answer

  3. The Law of Crosscutting Relationships Home

  4. Evidence that an animal was once in a place like footprints or burrows? Answer

  5. Trace Fossils Home

  6. Break in the geologic record? Answer

  7. Unconformity Home

  8. The number of half-lives gone through when a parent isotope is ¼ of it’s original amount? Answer

  9. 2 Home

  10. Which law tells us that all rocks beneath an unconformity are older than rocks above the unconformity? Answer

  11. Law of Superposition Home

  12. In radiometric dating, what is the original material called? (the radioactive material) Answer

  13. Parent isotope Home

  14. The Impact Hypothesis says dinosaurs became extinct when… Answer

  15. An asteroid crashed into the Earth Home

  16. The super continent that formed about 300 million years ago. Answer

  17. Pangea Home

  18. An occurrence where many species die out? Answer

  19. Mass extinction Home

  20. A geologic period is usually named for? Answer

  21. The place where characteristic fossils were first discovered. . Home

  22. Gradual development of new organisms from pre-existing ones? Answer

  23. Evolution Home

  24. These are the longest units of geologic time? Answer

  25. Eons Home

  26. Plates that slide past each other in opposite directions? Answer

  27. Transform Home

  28. One way that plate movement affects climate? Answer

  29. Creating mountains that affect wind patterns. Home

  30. Most scientists agree that the Earth is about how hold? Answer

  31. 4.6 Billion Years ago Home

  32. Slowest moving seismic waves? Answer

  33. Surface waves Home

  34. Why earthquakes usually occur at plate boundaries? Answer

  35. Great stress Home

  36. How the intensity of XII is described? Answer

  37. Total destruction Home

  38. Area on Earth’s surface where no direct seismic waves can be detected? Answer

  39. Shadow zone Home

  40. Tracing of earthquake motion that depends on a seismograph. Answer

  41. Seismogram Home

  42. Liquid rock underground? Answer

  43. Magma Home

  44. A large pluton? Answer

  45. Batholith Home

  46. The majority of earthquakes and volcanoes happens here? Answer

  47. Pacific Ring of Fire Home

  48. Iceland lies along this? Answer

  49. Mid-Atlantic Ridge Home

  50. Hawaiian Island formed due to this? Answer

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