how+the+earth+was+made

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 * Geology as a profession is only about how old/ a little over 200 years
 * Who is considered the Father of Modern Geology/ james hutten
 * According to early interpretation of the Bible, the Earth is how old/ 6000 years old
 * What feature studied in "geologic time" indicated to Hutton that the Earth had to be more than 6000 years old/ rock
 * The Earth was formed by _ collisions with the proto-Earth/ meteors
 * Lord Kelvin's age of the Earth was based upon the _ of a molten crust/ cooling
 * In 1911 used radioactivity to estimate an accurate age of the Earth to be how old/ 4.5 billion years
 * Radioactive uranium decays to _./ lead
 * The accepted age of the Earth is _/ 4.5 billion years
 * The Barberton Hills of South Africa have _ that show the planet had oceans by 3.5 billion years (b.y.) ago/ pillow lava
 * Many Geologist now believe that much of the Earth's water came from _Rather then out of gassing volcanic activity/ from astroids/comets
 * By 4.0 b.y. ago _ % of the Earth was covered with/ water
 * The early atmosphere around 4.0 b.y. was ~200 degrees F mainly due to _./ co2
 * The nucleus of the continents appears around 3.4 b.y. and are composed of _/ lava
 * Superheated mixing with basalt can form ./ granite
 * The shallow coastal waters of the new continents 3.5 B.Y. ago hosted Earth's first life; the _/ stromatolite
 * The new life strips what out of the atmosphere and adds what to it?/ oxygen
 * Seas change from to due to the oxidation of iron in the water/ turned from a green to blue
 * The world's supply of iron ore is mined from rocks called the_/ banded iron formations
 * By 1.5 B.Y. the continents cover % of the Earth's surface and are moving about in a theory we call _ today/ the continents were once together but moved apart
 * The meteorologist in 1912 proposed continental drift based upon what evidence/ none
 * Oceanic floor is continuously being _/ recycled
 * The island of Iceland is situated on the _./ north atlantic ridge
 * The fissure canyons of Iceland are opening at a rate of inch/year./ 1 inch a year
 * Plate motion can be traced back to _ b.y. when Canada and the U.S form the core of the super continent called _./ Rodinia
 * The Earth became a _ when the super continent blocked the redistribution of heat by ocean currents./ Rodinia froze
 * Life at the time was brought to near ./ death
 * Rodinia was split by _ activity and the Earth's atmosphere was briefly warmed by _/volcanic eruptions
 * Sea water was rich in _./oxgen
 * The _ Shale in the Canadian Rockies is a treasure trove of Period fossils./cambrion fossils
 * Fossils at the beginning of the Paleozoic show the adaptation of these features not seen in earlier fossils?/teeth hard shells skelltions eyes
 * The accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere allowed the formation of the_ which became a shield for what radiation?/ozone layer uv rays
 * The first life to move ashore some 300-400 million (m.y.) ago were _./large plants and large insects
 * The Carboniferous, part of which is the Pennsylvanian, was a time of widespread _ that accumulated later to be transformed to _./swamps plants transformed in to coal
 * 240 m.y ago the continents were re-assembled into a second super continent called _/pangea
 * The high levels of oxygen and CO2 lead to the rise of the in the Mesozoic./dinosaurs
 * Dinosaur means _/tearable lizard
 * 180 m.y ago was split apart by an upsurge in volcanism the put large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere causing to the climate/to turn to a forest planet
 * The diamonds of Kimberly occur in what kind of features?/it features a sharp cone like place
 * The end of the Mesozoic, 65 m.y. ago saw an extinction rate of % and is believed to be due to a _ on the north end of the Yucatan Peninsula in _./95%
 * The tombstone meteorite contains the rare element ./ape life
 * At the same time great outpourings of lava in _ were adding dust and gasses to the atmosphere.
 * The demise of the dinosaurs led to the expansion of the as the new dominant life form
 * The Alps represent the collision of _ and _.
 * The top of the Matterhorn has rocks from.
 * All mountains owe their origin to _.
 * The height of mountains is a determined by what two major processes?
 * The uplift of the Plateau by the American plate over riding the plate has caused the _ River to cut the Grand Canyon.
 * About 2 m.y. ago the Isthmus of _ was formed disrupting ocean currents and bringing on the _.
 * _ closed the isthmus.
 * Glaciers move like slow moving
 * What major American city was once covered by a massive glacier?
 * Deposits from glaciers created Island and Cape _
 * The basins of the _ Lakes were carved by the glaciers.
 * The retreat of icecaps and glaciers most recently occurred how many years ago?
 * Do geologists think there will be another advance of the icecaps and glaciers?
 * The Great Plate Tectonic "machine" will someday _