Geology

Front 1

_____ Was an important eighteenth century English geologist and proponent of uniformitarianism

Back 1

James Hutton

Front 2

The currently accepted age of the earth is___ years

Back 2

4.6 Billion

Front 3

Which of the following best describes the fundamental concept of superposition?

Back 3

Any sedimentary deposit accumulates on older rock or sediment layers.

Front 4

The______ Forms relatively cool brittle plates of plate tectonics.

Back 4

Lithosphere

Front 5

A_____ is a well tested and idely accepted view that best explains certain scientific observations

Back 5

Theory

Front 6

_______is often paraphrased as "the present is the key to the past."

Back 6

Uniformitarianism

Front 7

______ a popular natural philosophy of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was based on a firm belief in a very short geologic history for earth.

Back 7

Catastrophism

Front 8

The ___ is the thinnest layer on the Earth

Back 8

Crust

Front 9

___ is one of the two major flow mechanisms in a galcier

Back 9

Basal Slip

Front 10

Where are the only present day continental ice sheets?

Back 10

Greenland and Antartica

Front 11

which one of the following applies to a valley glacier that lengthens (extends its terminus downslope) over a period of many years?

Back 11

Accumulation exceeds wastage

Front 12

Abrasion and plucking generally involve what part of a glacier?

Back 12

The basal, sliding zone

Front 13

____ are erosional features produced by valley/alpine glaciers

Back 13

Cirques

Front 14

First developed the theory that small variations in the Earth-Sun Distance were responsible for short term climatic oscillations

Back 14

M. Milankovitch

Front 15

A_____ Represents a former meltwater channel of glacial ice that was filled with sand and gravel

Back 15

Esker