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| When two tectonic plates move apart |
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| Convergent Plate Movement |
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| When two plates move towards eachother |
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| When two plate scrape past eachother. |
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| Transform Plate Movement. |
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| What forms a Mid-Ocean Ridge? |
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| Convergent Plate Movement (Subduction) |
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| Super continent formed millions of years ago when all continents were together. |
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| Name the Layers of Earth from the most inner to outer. |
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| Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust |
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| Mass Extinctions are caused by: |
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| Comparing age of fossils based on their superposition levels |
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| Fossils will usually contain: |
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| Bones and Teeth of the organism. |
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| A cylinder piece of ice that contains organisms, gases, and other things from that certain year. |
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| What are the sections of the Geologic time scales from longest to shortest? |
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| What marks the end of an era? |
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| What is Precambrian time? |
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| Time period of 4 billion years long with no life on Earth |
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| The father of the Theory of Natural Selection |
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| a change in the DNA of an organism that benefits it. Happens at random |
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| A trait that helps an organism survive in it's enviroment. |
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| The factors of Natural Selection are |
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| Must involve variation, must be passed on, and must give an adaptation. |
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| How succesful an organism is at reproducing. |
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