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• James Hutton


  Father of modern geology
• Principle of Uniformity


  present is key to the past
• appalachians - ranges of old fold mountains
• fault - fracture in the Earth's crust
• Normal Faults


  occur in response to pulling or tension
• Thrust Faults 


  squeezing or compression
• strike-slip faults


  either type of stress
• continental shelf 


  the seaward
• continental slope


  marks boundary between continental crust and ocean floor
• continental rise - separates continental slope and ocean floor
• volcanism 


  primary forces that change the Earth's surface
• magma


  pocket of molten rock
• extrusive rock


  hardened lava on Earth's surface
• dating


  technique used in archaeology to ascertain age of artifacts
• NDRRMP - National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan
• Abiogenesis theory - life originated spontaneously from non-living things
• biogenesis theory


  originated from living things
• interplanetary theory


  life originated from outer space
• divine theory 


  originated from supernatural power
• evolutionary theory


  result of chain of chemical reactions that give rise to mass of living protoplasm
• atomic level


  smallest unit of an element
• molecular level 


  atoms combine to form molecules
• cellular level - smallest unit of life
• tissue level


  group of cells with similar function
• organ level

  2 or more types of tissues
• organ system level


  group of organs
• organism level


  several organ systems that function together
• prokaryotic cells 


  bacteria, blue-green algae
• eukaryotic cells

  plants, animals, fungi
• mitochondria 


  generate energy for the cell
• ribosome


  manufactures proteins
• lysosomes - store enzymes for digesting food
• homeostasis


  ability of organism to maintain constant or stable conditions
• metabolism


  transformation of energy by converting chemicals and energy
• growth


  process by which living organism increases in size
• adaptation


  ability to change overtime
• response to stimuli


  organism must be able to respond appropriately to external stimuli
• reproduction 


  ability to produce new individual organisms
• photosynthesis 


  process by which plants gather energy
• autotrophs


  self feeders