GEOL 106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Leachate, Industrial Revolution, Landslide Mitigation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
• Course: GEOL 106
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

50 m/c (lose 0. 1 marks for wrong answers) 30 marks for fill in the blank/short answer: try controlling earthquakes. Pump water down the fault to lubricate the fault (big risk in case you trigger another earthquake. Introduction to the rock cycle and the plate tectonic cycle and volcanoes! Release of earths internal heat energy (plate tectonic cycle) Energy acting on the earth: external energy: wears downs the earth"s surface (hydrologic cycle) Internal energy: builds up the earth"s surface (volcanoes and mountains, earth acts as a heat. The rock cycle: summarizes the interaction of external and internal energy. Rocks are in constant change from one type into another. Igneous (external energy wears it down) sedimentary (internal energy) metamorphic (heat ups enough and cycle continues to form igneous again) Igneous: formed when liquid (magma) cools and crystallizes. Sedimentary: formed when weathered particles get deposited and lithified.