[EVS1101] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (99 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Environmental Science
• Course: EVS 1101
• Professor: Danielle Fortin

Document Summary

Water on mars: suspected that there is ice on mars, dendritic drainage patterns, indirect evidence that water once flowed on mars. Planet earth- don"t need to know number : age of the ea(cid:396)th: 4. 6 (cid:271)illio(cid:374) yea(cid:396)s" old, oldest rock: 4. 55 billion years old; found in northern quebec. Where one plate moves away from its neighbor, another one has to go under its neighbor. Composed of: o (45%), si (27%), al (8%), fe (7%), ca, mg, na, etc. Crust composed of oxygen in the form of silicates. The elements that are at a small amount (ex 0. 00001%), it is probably very expensive like gold, platinum, etc. Australia is moving north by 2cm each year. Plate boundaries are different because of the formation of new crusts, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, mountains, etc. Sedimentary (precipitation of particles from existing rocks, compressed to form new rocks), ottawa is on sedentary rocks, lots of strata, however in sudbury they are sitting on the pre-cambrian shield.