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Flora - SOL Review B
SOL Review B Geology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cenozoic | the major life forms in this geologic era are mammals (humans live in this era) |
| Mesozoic | the major life forms of this geologic era are reptiles and dinosaurs |
| watershed | land area drained by a stream system; we are in the Roanoke River ____ |
| sedimentary | the only rock type that contains fossils; made of broken fragments of other rocks |
| sedimentary | rock type associated with the following: weathering, erosion and deposition forming sediments when undergo cementation and compaction to form this type of rocks |
| aquifer | any underground layer that lets water pass through it |
| three | the number of seismic measuring stations required to find the epicenter of an earthquake, the intersection of 3 circles is the epicenter of the quake |
| Paleozoic | this geologic era marks the time when animals started developing shells and bones |
| geologic | the ____ time scale is divided according to major life forms and changes in life forms |
| karst | ____ topography contains caves, caverns and sinkholes and is underlain by limestone bedrock |
| igneous | the rock type that forms from cooling of magma (intrusive) or cooling of lava (extrusive) |
| Precambrian | the first geologic era when very simple life forms such as bacteria and algae existed |
| transform | a ____ plate boundary where plates are sliding past each other horizontally with the movement causing faults and earthquakes |
| mineral | a solid, naturally occurring, inorganic substance whose atoms form crystals and which has a definite chemical composition |
| divergent | a ____ plate boundary where tectonic plates are moving apart creating mid-ocean ridges, rift valleys and new crust |
| fossil fuel | any fuel formed from the remains of once-living orgnanisms such as gas, oil and coal which are nonrenewable |
| coastal plain | one of Virginia's physiographic provinces adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, which has vast deposits of loose sediment, sedimentary rocks and the wetlands |
| Piedmont | Virginia's largest physiographic province |
| water table | the boundary between the zone of aeration and the zone of saturation, water wells must be drilled below this area |
| humus | decaying organic material found in the top layer of soil |
| convergent | a boundary where tectonic plates are colliding, plate movement creates deep-sea trenches and volcanoes on the ocean floor and mountain ranges on land |
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