EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE PRE-FINAL REVIEWER

EXOGENIC PROCESS
- weathering and soil erosion
WEATHERING AND EROSION
Geological Process - Exogenic and Endogenic
Geology - study of Earth, rock or formation
Weathering - rock process that breaks rock into smaller particles
- wind, running water and sun’s energy, ice
- chemical, biological and mechanical
Mechanical Weathering - physical weathering
Chemical Weathering - change of chemical composition in the rocks
- co2, acids, rain
- frost wedging, root wedging, carbonization (c & o)
ENDOGENIC PROCESS
- formed or occurring beneath the surface of the Earth
- are logical that occur beneath the surface of the Earth
- associated with energy originating in the interior of the solid Earth
Continental Drift Theory (Alfred Wegener 1920) PANGEA - the Earth’s continents
have moved over geological time relative to each other.
Jigsaw Fit
Mountain Belts
Fossil
Glacial Straiations
Seafloor Spreading Theory - which tectonic plates split apart from each other.
- there are active fracture in the lithosphere along the ocean floor, in a
pattern that mimics the shapes of the continental coastlines.
- the age of the seafloor rock increases as you get further away from the
mid-ocean ridge.
- the thickness of the layer of sediments deposited on the ocean floor
increases as you get further away from the mid-ocean ridge.
Plate Tectonic Theory - divided into several plates that glide ever the Earth’s rocky
inner layer above the mantle.
Pacific Ring of Fire - location of active volcanoes
Convergent - coming close together
Divergent - rift valley, tending to be different directions
Transform - grind
Crust - continental crust and oceanic crust