Lecture 1 Yellow stone hot spot Great Valley Questions to consider throughout the course: Boundary layer of clay Will California fall into the sea? What regulates climate? etc. (see lecture notes) THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD Observe Generalize and/ make a hypothesis Test the hypothesis Revise hypothesis if necessary - hypothesis has to be falsify able, com Lecture 2 Electromagnetic between positive charges of the nucleus and negative charges of the electrons FUNDAMENTAL FORCES
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based on the earth and its plates. 1. What is a plate? Answer: The surface of the earth that made up of broken up pieces of the outermost layer. There are 7 major and 8 minor plates; these plates can be oceanic or continental. 2. What are the 3 types of plate boundaries? Answer: Divergent, convergent, and transform 3. What is a fault and how is it formed? Answer: A fault is a crack in the Earth’s crust. Faults are formed by the area between the Earth’s plates are being pushed together
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1. Explain the relationship between continental drift and the formation of the Earth’s Oceans? The relationship between continental drift and the formation of Earth’s Oceans comes from the plate movement that occurred in Earth which is called plate tectonics. All of the landmasses were grouped together into one vast supercontinent called Pangea. Over millions of years the land started to split into many different countries and it also divided Panthalassa, the single great ocean that surrounded the
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September 24 2013 Earthquake U.S Geological Survey A magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit Awaran, Pakistan due to a strike-slip occurring between the plates. The plates collided between the transition zone between the northward subduction of the Arabic plate beneath the Eurasia plate. The epicenter of the event occurred 69km north of the Awaran, Pakistan border. The earthquake killed at least 825 people and injured hundred of others. The Balochistan government estimated that the earthquake had destroyed
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Monitoring Our Home Planet Michael Davis Argosy University Abstract This paper is being submitted in details the effect that natural disaster has on the planet Earth. Analyzing the impact of potential natural disasters on: geography, resources, politics, economics, and disaster preparedness and how to monitor the future natural disasters. Monitoring Our Home Planet Natural Disaster has a major impact on the inhabitants that live on the planet Earth. A natural disaster is a major
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could never come up with an underlying reason for the motion of the continents. The theory of continental drift eventually evolved into the modern theory of plate tectonics. This holds that the lithosphere (or the Earth's crust) is made up of numerous plates that literally float on the underlying liquid asthenosphere. The motion of the plates and resulting activity at their edges to form mountains, trenches, and volcanoes explains the planet's topography. The first piece of evidence that really
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good understanding of how the plates move and how this is related to earthquake activity. There are four different types of plate boundaries. First we have Divergent boundaries, where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other. Second we have Convergent boundaries and this is where the crust is destroyed as one plate is forced under another. Third we have the transform boundaries and this is where the crust is not created or destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past the other
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same goes as for tourism industry, you must be careful in anything you do. Changing Demographics – changing demographics is very crucial in the tourism industry, because today some countries change names and other locations elevate due to the tectonic plate movement, information now changes, as a part of the tourism community all must be updated to changes like these to be able to give accurate information to others. Price Value- one definition of
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semi-solid rock in the lower mantle. Continental drift: the separating of continents by drifting across the oceans. Magnetic striping: patterns of magnetism trapped in rocks on each side of plate boundaries. Ocean trench: a deep trench in the ocean floor that is much deeper than the rest of the ocean floor. Plate tectonics: the theory that the Earth’s crust is cracked into many large pieces that move on the asthenosphere. Rifting: the process of continents breaking up, subsiding and allowing in the sea
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geologic location to see folded rock up close is the Alps in Europe. B.) The Alps were formed because of a collision of tectonic plates, which caused enormous stress on the sediments in that area which caused the rocks to fold and form the Alps. 3.) Compression near the San Andreas Fault created a fold- and thrust belt that is encroaching northeastward into the micro plate. The result of this increased rate of crust shortening has caused a regional reversal of sediment-transport direction, which
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