Reference no: EM132290058

Question: Note: Please note that assessments in this course place emphasis upon demonstrating maximum understanding as opposed to meeting minimum standards. Provide comprehensive responses for full grades!!!

Definitions:1) Define the following in your own words with examples and diagrams.

• Formation of continents and oceans from Pangea;

• Transform Plate Margins with examples;

• Theory of Uniformitarianism with examples;

• Foliated and non-foliated Metamorphic Rocks;

• Atoms & Ions - their diagrams, characteristics, charges with examples

• Mariana's Trench in the Pacific Ocean;

• Diagenetic Processes Responsible for the formation of Sedimentary Rocks;

• Mid-Oceanic Ridge System with examples;

• 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement; and

• Hydrothermal Vents in the Oceans

Short answers:

2) Describe the Rock Cycle in your own words, providing examples and diagrams.

3) Describe two extinctions on Earth along with their time periods, characteristic fauna and flora, and their representative index fossils marking the extinction;

4) Explain the ‘Bowen's Reaction Series' and how the two pathways give rise to different kinds of minerals and rocks. Provided examples and diagrams wherever necessary.

Long answers:

1) Describe the Periodic Table of Earth, its origin, classification, and members like noble gases/metals, halogens, lanthanide/actinide series, metals/non-metals/metalloids, atomic sizes changes, and electronegativity.

2) Describe the formation of the Appalachian Chain Mountains with explanation of the time period over which they were formed.