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| Minerals are the building-blocks of: |
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| What six mineral types account for the earth's mass? |
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| quartz, feldspar, olivine, spinel, perovskite, and native iron. |
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| What are the six mineral types that account for the earth's mass called? |
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| The ordered arrangement of atoms in the mineral is called the: |
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| The order of the crust, mantle and core are: |
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| The crust and the upper mantle come together to form the: |
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| The region beneath the lithosphere is called: |
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| The lower mantle between the asthenosphere and the core is the: |
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| The study of how materials deform is called: |
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| the study of the gaseous atmosphere is called: |
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| the study of the liquid oceans is called: |
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| The study of the solid earth is: |
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| Force concentration is called: |
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| Deformation concentration is called |
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| measure of how rapidly strain occurs is called |
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| When a rock has the capacity to come back to its original shape is called: |
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| The limit of elastic deformation is called the: |
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| Permanent deformation of a solid that leaves the material intact is called |
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| What is the unifying theory of modern geology? |
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| Continental drift was introduced by: |
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| forces distributed over the volume of a body are called: |
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| rock masses to either side of the fault surface are called |
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| Where does most displacement occour? |
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| The style of fault motion that are hard rocks that can store lots of elastic energy before failure is: |
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| Fault blocks that creep slowly past each other: |
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| Intervals along which a fault exhibits the same behavior are called: |
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| The portion of geology that deals with faults and other crustal deformation is called: |
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| The length of time between successive maximum or minimum displacements is called the |
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| The distance between particle positions at the maximum and minimum displacement positions is called the |
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| the systematic study of earthquakes is called: |
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| the arrival of compression waves are called: |
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| The arrival of shear waves are called: |
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| curves that predicted wave arrival times versus distance are called: |
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| Richter scales can determine the _________ of earthquakes. |
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| The motion of the earthquake waves causes the sediment particles to vibrate loose, which allows the particles to easily slide past each other. This is called: |
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| What is unreinforced masonry? |
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| brick, stone and cocnrete block |
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| mass on a rod is called an: |
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| Waves that were a meter or two high in the deep ocean rise to tens of meters in height by the time they reach the shore. This is called a: |
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| The class that tsunamis belong to are called: |
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| a physical property of fluids that characterizes how easily a fluid flows is called: |
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| molten rock composed of varying amounts silicon and oxygen, together with many different kinds of metal ions, such as iron, magnesium, and aluminum is: |
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