Download Dual Credit Major Topics for Studying

Dual Credit Major Topics for Studying
Plate Tectonics
 Earth’s structure: Layers and properties (i.e. crust, mantle core)
 Names of plates
 Continental Drift
 Types of volcanoes; magma types (felsic and maffic)
 Features of volcanoes
 Lava types
 Seismic waves, earthquakes
 liquefaction
 2004 tsunami
Rocks and Minerals
 Types of rocks and rock cycle; common rock names (i.e. granite, obsidian,
quartzite, shale, slate etc)
 Common minerals and properties
 Igneous Plumes/Plutons
Geologic Time
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Radioactive isotopes
Types of fossilization
Relative Time, laws of superposition
Geologic Time
Early theories including uniformitarianism, neptunism, faunal succession
Radioactive Decay (parent, daughter, half-life)
Additional
 Erosion and weathering (i.e. exfoliation, abrasion, alluvial sediment)
 Terms to research: migmatic, phaneritic, humus, karst
 Very little on mining or the environment