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| What causes regional metamorphism? |
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| What causes ripple marks? |
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| What is a type of rock that has rounded pebbles? |
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conglomerate
clastic
sedimentary rock |
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| What is an organic sedimentary rock? |
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| Felsic rocks are high in what? |
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| How does a sedimentary rock become metamorphic? |
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| What type of rock is made from magma that cools slowly? |
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| What two processes are responsible for changing sediment into sedimentary rock? |
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| change of one type of rock into another type of rock through heat and pressure |
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| What is the parent material for all rock? |
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| What is a minerals ability to glow after exposure to light? |
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| What is the most common magnetic mineral? |
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| What is a mineral that the atoms are tightly bonded together? |
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| How do you measure hardness? |
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| ratio of mass of a substance to its volume |
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| What are properties of a mineral? |
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| Color, luster, hardness, streak, cleavage, density |
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| What are examples of minerals? |
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| How many atoms of each element K2SO4? |
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| What is shared in covalent bonds? |
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| What are the charges of a proton, neutron and electron? |
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Proton is positive
Neutron is neutral
Electron is negative |
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| What is the maximum number of electrons is each orbital? |
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First orbital is 2
next are 8 |
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| Different number of neutrons |
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| Element with a positive or negative charge that gains or loses an electron |
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| Where are protons, neutrons and electrons located? |
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Protons-Nucleus
Neutrons-Nucleus
Electrons-Electron Cloud |
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| What is the smallest subatomic particle? |
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| How many elements occur naturally? |
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| Name the planets in order |
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Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune |
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| What is the smallest planet? |
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| What is the largest planet? |
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| What are the terrestrial planets and what are they composed of? |
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| Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars and they are composed of rock (land) |
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| object in orbit around a body with a larger mass |
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| Planets are kept in place by what force? |
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| Who was the first astronomer to mathematically model planet motion? |
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| tendency of a moving body to remain in motion or a stationary body to remain at rest until an outside force acts on it |
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| What does a magnetic field indicate about a planet? |
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| That it has a sold metal core |
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| What shields the Earth from UV rays? |
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| Who was the first to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system |
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| Where does Oxygen that we breath come from |
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| What is an astronomical unit equal to? |
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| distance from Earth to Sun |
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| What planets are the gas giants? |
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| Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune |
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| Solar winds hitting Earth's atmosphere |
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| What is the most violent of all solar disturbances? |
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| cooler regions due to magnetic fields |
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| What is the chromosphere? |
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| transfer of heat throught the movement of the heated material |
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| What are the stages in the life of a star? |
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| Nebula, Protostar, Main Sequence, Giant, Super Giant and dwarf |
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| a collapsed star that implodes on itself where no light can escape |
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| Measures temperature and magnitude |
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| Where is our sun in the HR diagram? |
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| What type of star is our sun? |
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| Hydrogen fuses into what in our sun? |
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| How long does it take light to reach us from the sun? |
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| A star moving away from Earth would show what shift? |
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| What is the doppler effect? |
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| apparent shift in the wavelength energy such as a sound wave or a light wave emitted by a source moving away from or toward an observer |
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| instrument that splits white light into a band of colors |
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| What are geosynchronous satellites used for? |
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| What are landsat satellites used for? |
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| What are navigation satellites used for? |
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| Pole to Pole orbit that takes a new image each orbit |
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| What are the time zones of the US and what are is the time difference? |
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Eastern
Central
Mountain
Pacific
1 hour difference |
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| If you have 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness in Antarctica, what day is it? |
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| When the south pole tilts twoard the sun the northern hemisphere experiences what? |
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| What month is the winter solstice? |
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| What is it called when the Earth is farthest from the sun? closest? |
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| What would happen if we increased the rotation rate of the Earth? |
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| more days in the calendar |
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| What is the magnetosphere? |
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| region of space affected by Earth's atmosphere |
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| What is the boundary between Earth's crust and the Mantle? |
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| Where do seismic waves come from? |
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| Earthquakes and explosions |
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| How did scientists determine the structure of the Earth's interior? |
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| What is the make up of the Earth's interior? |
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Inner core
Outer core
Mantle
Moho
Crust |
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| Which zone is made up up liquid iron? |
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| What is the most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere? |
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| What is the lithosphere made up of? |
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| What percent of Earth's hydrosphere is made of the salt water? |
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| What material makes up the athenosphere? |
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| solid rock with the ability to flow |
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| What is red shift and what is it evidence for? |
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apparent lengthening of the light waves emitted by by a star moving away from the Earth
expansion of galaxies |
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| Identify the parts of a wave |
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| The higher part is the crest and the lower is a trough |
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| When a light moves toward you it appears to be |
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| What is a well established and proven theory? |
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| What is a hypothesis that is supported by the results of experimentation? |
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| What is the first step to solving a problem? |
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| What is a possbile explanation to a problem? |
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| How do we collect or gather information? |
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| What is the largest ecosystem? |
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| What does the Earth's ozone layer do? |
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| Contact metamorphism is caused primarily by what? |
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| What does an astronomer study? |
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| stars, planets---the universe |
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| What are the biospheres on Earth? |
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| Rainforest, desert, Tundra |
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