HotE Vocabulary pt2

inorganic chemical compounds composed of iron and oxygen. Including minerals magnetite and hematite

• Iron carbonates
• Iron sulfides
• Iron oxides

• Iron phosphates

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

rocks, more than two billion years old, that consist of oxides, sulfides, or carbonates of iron, thinly interbedded with chert, a silica-rich rock

• Banded iron formations (BIFs)
• Metamorphic rock formations
• Sedimentary rock layers
• Volcanic ash deposits

A hard, compact, often gray, fine-grained sedimentary rock formed almost entirely of silica.

• Limestone
• Granite
• Chert
• Basalt

blue-green algae that contain chlorophyll and liberate oxygen during photosynthesis.

• Green algae
• Euglena
• Cyanobacteria
• Diatoms

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-5

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

Oldest known fossils formed from many layers of bacteria and sediment.

• Volcanic Rocks
• Stromatolites
• Coral Reefs
• Dinosaur Bones

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-7

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

The process by which water vapor and other gasses and compounds are brought to Earth's surface by volcanism and released into the atmosphere

• Outgassing
• Precipitation
• Evaporation
• Condensation

a linear range of mountains, mountain belt

• orogen

• shields

• craton

• basin

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

a large, relatively flat expanse of ancient metamorphic rock within the stable continental interior

• orogen

• shields

• craton

• basin

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

a large, stable block of the Earth's crust forming the nucleus of a continent

• orogen

• shields

• craton

• basin

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Organic molecules traveled to the Earth from meteorites

• Extraterrestrial Hypothesis

• Chemosynthesis Hypothesis

• Intelligent Design

• Cosmogenesis

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6