What geological processes are currently occurring in the coastal plain?
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
Metamorphic rocks are found in some provinces of Virginia. What processes were those areas subjected to?
Heat and Pressure
The Blue Ridge Mountains have folded and faulted rocks from the ________ of continental plates.
Sliding
The ____________province has rolling topography due to folding and differential erosion.
Valley and Ridge
Name 3 types of evidence that continents separated by oceans were once joined together in the past.
Puzzle like fit of the continents, the same species of animal on different continents, and the same rock strata.
Uniformitarianism tells us that the present is the key to the______.
Past
Original Horizontality - sediments are deposited in _______ layers.
Horizontal
Superposition - in undisturbed layers, the oldest (first) is at the______ and the youngest ( last) is at the ______.
Bottom,Top
Cross-cutting relations- a layer being cut through is _______ than the layer cutting through it.
Older
How do you find absolute age based on the rate of decay of _________________.
Radioactive isotopes
Name three things that fossils give evidence of.
The ancient climate, ancient life and how they lived.
What rock type is mostly likely to contain fossils?
Sedimentary
Why there so few fossils of jellyfish?
They do not have bones
What has to happen to an organism in order for it to become a fossil ?
It has to buried rapidly
When looking at a fossil range chart, how can you tell when two organisms existed concurrently?
Where they overlap on the fossil chart
Large deposits of sand and gravel indicate areas where _____ once flowed.
Water
Weathering is the ______ or ________ of existing material.
Breakdown, dissolving
Chemical weathering is the ________ of material
Dissolution
Forces that alter landforms include ______, _______, and _______ + ___________
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition, Tectonic plates
Which resources are non-renewable?
Oil, Natural Gas, Coal, and Uranium
Which resources are renewable?
Sun, Wind, Hydroelectric, Biomass, and Geothermal
Virginia resources include ________ which is used to make concrete.
Limestone
Virginia also had lots of crushed stone being quarried to use in the _________ industry.
Consrtuction
____ is the most important mineral resource in Virginia.
Coal
Most coal is obtained from ______ mines known as strip mines
Surface
Restoration of mined land is accomplished by ________________ to minimize erosion.
Planting vegetation
List the main divisions of the geological time scale from longest to shortest.
Eon, Era, Period, Epoch and age
What processes led to the development of the oceans?
Meteorites with crystals and Volcanic activity
What major event may have led to the global catastrophe that killed off the dinosaurs?
Giant asteroid
Have humans ever coexisted with dinosaurs?
NO !!!!!