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| loose 'unconsolidated' material has become a solid rock |
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| principal mechanism behind evolutionary changes in biosphere |
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| Amount of time matter is contained in specific reservoir |
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| granite is a rock that is typical of the: |
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| how fast do tectonic plates move? |
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| A few inches (roughly 1-2) per year |
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| Which of the following are components of the scientific method? |
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| acquiring data and evaluating results, raising questions, creating hypotheses, making predictions |
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| contenintal on top, oceanic sliding underneath? |
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| convergent plate boundary |
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| what are the three general classes of rocks that are defined based upon origin? |
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| igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic |
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| first geologist to formulate a global explanation of how the contenents assumed their present locations and shapes |
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| What is the driving force behind plate tectonics? |
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| are more common in the continental crust, contain more silicon, sodium, and potassium than mafic rocks, commonly contain feldspar and quartz, do not have much iron and magnesium as mafic rocks |
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| earths crust and upper mantle |
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| The Basin and RAnge province has lots of normal faults which suggest? |
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| An example of ionic bonding is? |
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| What is in the center of an atom? |
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| sometime between 4.2 and 3.5 billion years ago |
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| Whats true about oceanic crust compared to continental crust? |
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| thinner and higher density |
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| Basalt igneous rock w/ crystals to small to see, whats this texture? |
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| Energy and matter in and out of open system are the same? |
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| Minimum number of seismic stations to locate earth quake? |
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| scale used (toal amount of seismic energy) |
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| Hazards from earthquakes? |
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| slope failure, surface rupture, fire, liquefication |
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| Rocks strained and break? |
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| Rocks changed by heat, fluids, pressure? |
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hanging wall (on top) moves up
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| Magnetic reversals discovered where? |
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| Geosphere interacts with the atmosphere where? |
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| Volcano explodes gases and ash into he air |
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| Landmass 200 million years ago? |
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| Ocean crust has more_____ than continental crust? |
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| Karst terrane and sinkholes caused by? |
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| Problem at Easter island? |
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| carrying capacity overwhelmed |
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| Sustainable society consists of? |
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| satisfying needs with out jeopardizing the future |
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Foot wall(on bottom) move up
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| Which wave will arive 1st? |
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| Sedimentary rocks use to reconstruct past environment how? |
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| Structures, texture, fossils, composition |
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| Plastic flow in mantel is what? |
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| NO igneous rocks and minerals at which boundary? |
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| Erosion consists of what? |
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| 4 common elments in geopsphere? |
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| Oxygen, iron, silicon, magnesium |
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| What is done to prevent damage from basal shear? |
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| Clays come from weathering (hydrolysis) of? |
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| Alps and HImalayas is what type of plates process? |
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| convergence of two continent-bearing plates |
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