Seafloor spreading Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

SDSU Ocean 100 Final SacramentoGrilo Exam Questions And Answers 100% Verified Origin of earth - answer• Supernova: death of a star (great explosion) • Supernova happened 4.6 bya, dust and gas flattens to a disk and spins faster due to gravity and solar nebula formed. • Solar Nebula: describes formation of Earth 4.5 bya • Nebula: gas cloud origin of oceans - answer• volcanic explosion, H2O condensed and rained down for thousands of years to create oceans • icy comets hitting ...

Pangaea Correct Answer A hypothesized supercontinent that existed from the late Paleozoic to early Mesozoic in old-Earth timescales, or formed and rifted apart during Noah's Flood according to Catastrophic Plate Tectonics. Laurentia and Gondwana Correct Answer According to Wegener, Pangaea split first into northern and southern portions. Continental drift Correct Answer A hypothesis proposed by Alfred Wegener which asserted that the continents had slowly moved away from each other and thr...

APES Unit 4 Review - MRQ correctly solved graded A+Which of the following statements best describes the boundary between the two tectonic plates: the Relative motion of the North American & the Pacific Plate? - correct answer The map illustrates a transform boundary, where tectonic plates slide past each other as the Pacific Plate moves northwest and the North American Plate moves southeast. (The San Andreas Fault is a transform boundary. The plates slide past each other in opposite directions,...

EAPS 111 Exam 1 Purdue Questions and Answers with complete solution 1. A fundamental premise of plate tectonics is that the Earth's surface is made of distinct plates. What are the kinds of evidence/observations led geoscientists to conclude this? - Answer ️️ -- The presence of fossil evidence as well as physical boundaries for continents and chains of seismic activity, they can fit together and plants, sediments 2. Where these plates interact (at their active boundaries) is where a s...

Clemson Geology 1010 - Exam #1 Latest Update Rated A principles claims something that has been proven - known to all as correct scientific method observation, questions, hypothesis, collect data, and evaluation hypothesis educated guess; "if-then" statement. needs to be testable; be predictive theories hypothesis but now has a lot of data supporting it; tested for years law essentially correct (always an exception) geology study of earth catastrophism everything was caused by 6 catastrop...

Marine Science Exam Test Questions Correct Answers New Update Scientific data suggest that the age of Earth is about ________ years. - Answers -4.6 billion Scientific data suggest that the age Earth's earliest fossilized life form is ________ years - Answers -3.5 to 3.9 billion From earliest to most recent, which of these is a correct order of formation? - Answers -nebula, protostar, star, supernova planets formed in the early solar system as particles orbiting the sun were attracte...

Marine Biology – 3 Questions and Answers Already Passed The solar system formed ____ billion years ago. 5 It has been proposed that the first living organisms were: heterotrophs The first heterotrophs obtained their energy from: chemosynthetic organisms. The ocean is frequently referred to as: world ocean. A body of salt water that is more or less landlocked is called: a sea. The thickest of Earth's physical layers is the: mantle. The region of the mantle below the crust is called: the ...

Mttc Integrated Science (Earth And Space Sciences) Elaborated Questions And Answers Theory of Plate Tectonics - CORRECT ANSWER-A theory stating that Earth's lithosphere is broken into huge plates that move and change in size over time - explains the process of continental drift - theory is a fusion on the theories of continental drift and seafloor spreading - continents are not floating on the ocean, rather they are rooted What are the 10 major plates of the Earth's lithosphere? - C...

AICE Marine Science - Chapter 2: Earth Processes Questions and Answers 100% Pass oceanic crust - Correct Answer ️️ -thinner, more dense, younger crust making ocean floor continental crust - Correct Answer ️️ -A solid, thicker, outermost layer of Earth continental drift - Correct Answer ️️ -The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass (Pangea), broke up, and drifted to their present locations plate tectonics - Correct Answer ️️ -The theory t...

AP Environmental Science uniFreshwater accounts for how much of the earths water - ANSWER 3 percent where is the majority of the earths freshwater - ANSWER 3/4 of the earths freshwater is above ground in ice and glaciers A method has been implemented to reduce water use i dry climates to - ANSWER alternate days for households to water their lawn or wash their cars gray water is suitable for - ANSWER watering plants, washing cars gray water comes from - ANSWER baths, showers, sinks, a...