List of thing to know for Geology Test Part 1
- Vocabulary on p. 74-74
- The difference between weathering and erosion
- Why there are stripes on the walls of the Grand Canyon?
- How does sedimentary rock (shale, sandstone, and limestone) form?
- How are shale, sandstone, and limestone similar and different from one another?
- Where (or what environments) would you find shale, sandstone, and limestone?
- What sediments make up sandstone, shale, and limestone?
- Where you would find different sized sediments (sand or clay)
- Examples of physical and chemical weathering
- Be able to tell which sediments are older or younger in a rock
- What happens to sediments that the water is carrying when the water enters a basin?
- How is calcium carbonate made? How is it breakdown down?
- What is ocean acidification?
- What types of rocks have fossils in them?
- How does uniformitarianism help geologist predict what happened in the past?