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| The crust is made up of what type of rock? |
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| The mantle is made up of what type of rock? |
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| The outer core is made up of what? |
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| The inner core is made up of what? |
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| How do we know the outer core is liquid? |
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Through the measurement of seismic waves
P-Waves can only travel through liquid |
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| What are the types of plate boundaries? |
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Diverging
Converging
Transforming
Subducting |
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| How do we know that Earth was once a whole? |
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Groups of animals/rocks
Seafloor spreading
Pangia |
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| Are true north and magnetic north the same? |
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| No, because seafloor spreading causes magnetic north to change |
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| What type of plate boundaries cause volcanoes? |
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New crust is hot, less dense
Old crust is cold, more dense |
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| How much do plate boundaries move a year? |
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| 5cm, the same as human fingernails |
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| How did the appalachian mountains form? |
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| From continents colliding together |
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| What are the charges of cations and anions? |
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| Material added to continents |
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| When atoms bond to form minerals |
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| How do atoms move in different temperatures? |
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Cold= less movement
Hot= more movement |
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| When did the Big Bang occcur? |
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| What are the properties of a mineral? |
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cleavage
hardness
metallic/non
color
color of powder
luster
specific gravity
reaction w/acid |
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| What type of plate boundary can a earthquake occur? |
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| Any type of plate boundary |
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| What is the most abundant mineral on Earth? |
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| Silicate (Oxygen+Silicon) |
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| What are the most abundant elements on Earth? |
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| What type of formation is feldspar? |
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| What type of formation is olivene? |
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| What type of formation is pyroxene? |
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| What type of bond is amphibole? |
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| What type of bond is muscovite? |
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| What are the different types of ionic bonds? |
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Framework
Single Chain
Isolated
Sheet
Double Chain |
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| The transportation of heat & material |
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| When a fragment is too buoyant therefore is doesn't get subducted and becomes welded to a continent |
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| What is the Wilson Cycle? |
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| A cycle which involves the seafloor spreading and closing |
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Electron= outer layer
Proton/Neutron= inner layer |
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| What is the charge of an electron, proton, and neutron? |
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Electron= -
Proton= +
Neutron= neutral |
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| What is a crystal structure? |
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-It is defined by the ordering of atoms which form a crystal lattice
-Produces distinct/identifying properties of the mineral (cleavage, hardness, crystal habit)
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Same chemical composition
Different arrangement of atoms in the crystalline structure |
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| How does speed affect crystallization? |
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| Slower the rate of crystallization, larger the crystals |
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| A rock that forms when molten magma turns to crystalline form |
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| What are the causes of change in magma composition? |
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Partial melting
Fractional Crystallization/Differentation
Assimilation of country rock |
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| What are the most abundant elements on the Earth's crust? |
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1. Oxygen
2. Silicon
3. Aluminum
4. Iron
5. Magnesium
6. Calcium
7. Potassium
8. Sodium |
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| The solid part of the Earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle |
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| What is the athenosphere? |
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| The lower layer of the crust |
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