fgfScience Flashback Stuff for CAT and NECAP: Earth Science: Difference between weathering and erosion Mechanical

and chemical weathering Examples of each (be able to pick examples of how various formations, such as mountain or volcano, canyons, sea cliffs, sea arch, sea stacks, fault boundaries, etc. from illustrations and scenarios) Plate tectonics: Boundary types and resulting formations Evidence for plate tectonics (glossopteris/messieurs/etc. fossils, rock layers, glacial scouring, age of rocks) Location and reason for volcanoes, trenches, mountains, island chains, etc. Be able to explain formations at various boundary types Major areas (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Hawaiian/Aleutian island chains hot spot vs. convergent boundary, Himalayas, Cascade Mtns, etc) Divergent, Convergent (cont-cont & cont-ocean), Transform/strike slip/Tranverse Rock Cycle: metamorphic, igneous, sedimentary Extrusive and intrusive formation Ordering of events/age of rock layers in diagrams Rock characteristics based on formation process Ex: characteristics: Tiny holes/one mineral/etc. - lava cooled quickly - lave cooled slowly - weathering Info from mineral size in igneous rocks (rate and location of cooling) Size of minerals Number of minerals Aquifers interaction with water cycle (exposed aquifer part of water cycle)