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The application of scientific discoveries is called Tectonics |
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Identifying rocks, studying glacial movements, and interpreting clues to Earth's history are all topics studies in geology. |
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Earth's four main systems are independent of of one another. |
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Metereology the study of materials that make up Earth and the processes that form and change these materials. |
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The biosphere includes all organisms that live within a few meters of Earth's surface, at the bottom of oceans, and on the tops of mountains |
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Scientists at the time rejected Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift because he could not explain how or why Earth's continents move. |
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According to the theory of plate tectonics, plates interact at plate boundaries by deflecting each other, moving away from each other, or moving horizontally past each other. |
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Igneous extrusive rock bodies are called plutons. |
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Most of the world's rift volcanism occurs at divergent boundaries. |
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Volcanoes that form over hot spots are often solitary and far from tectonic plate boundaries. |
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Uplifted mountains are regions of broad uplift that seem to be related to rising convection cells in the mantle. |
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About 70 percent of Earth's surface is below sea level. |
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The radioactive decay scale divides the history of Earth into time units that help geologists analyze the rock record |
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Granite, which is composed of feldspar, quartz, and mica- high-density minerals- is common at Earth's surface. |
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The Ediacaran fauna lived during the late Archean, and their fossils have been found in all parts of the world. |
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| The Coriolis effect is due to the ______ of Earth. |
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| Low-pressure systems that heavily influence weather in the middle latitudes are ______. |
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| A record of weather data for a particular site at a particular time is a(n) _______. |
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| The exchange of heat or moisture with the surface over which an air mass travels is known as ______. |
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| Very severe thunderstorms can form when a _____ has a large continuous supply of warm air to lift and condense. |
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| A mound of water driven toward coastal areas by hurricane winds is called a ______. |
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| Continental drift was not widely accepted when it was first proposed because ________. |
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| Wegener couldn't explain why or how the continents moved |
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| Isochron maps of the sea floor indicate that ocean crust is ________. |
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| youngest near ocean ridges |
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| Each cycle of spreading and intrusion of magma during sea floor spreading results in _______. |
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| Continental-continental plate collisions produce ________. |
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| very tall mountain ranges |
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| All of the following affect the temperature at which magma forms EXCEPT ______. |
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| Volcanism that occurs under water along mid-oceans ridges is ___________. |
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| On a seismometer, vibrations of the ground do not move the ______. |
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| A good model for isostasy is ______. |
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| the water line of a boat when someone boards or leaves it |
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| Fault-block mountains _______. |
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| form when a large pieces of crust are dropped between large faults |
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| The amount of time it takes for one-half of the original amount of an isotope to decay is known as its _______. |
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| Mummified animals found in dry caves can be examples of fossils with ______. |
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| Mold, casts, coprolite, and petrified wood are all examples of _______. |
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| The Phanerzoic Eon includes the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and _______. |
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| An example of a fossil with altered hard parts includes a _________. |
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| The oldest known mineral on Earth is _______. |
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| Cyanobacteria use the process of _______ to produce energy, and oxygen is given off as a waste product. |
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| The ________________ states that earth's crust and rigid upper mantle are broken into enormous slabs called plates that move slowly over Earth's surface. |
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| Th transfer of thermal energy by the movement of heated matter is _________. |
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| Places where plates move apart are ________ |
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| Earth's continents were once joined as a single landmass called ________. |
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| The adaption of life-forms to changes in the enviroment is known as _________. |
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| In the process of _________, pore spaces within an organism's shell are filled with mineral substances. |
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| Broad, gently sloping sides |
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| Made of layers of tephra and lava |
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| Forms from layers of basaltic lava |
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| Forms as tephra ejected high into the air fall back to Earth and pile around the vent |
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| Tiny, Threadlike photosynthetic organisms |
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| Mat or mound composed of billions of cyanobacteria |
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| Stable Mineral that commonly occurs in granite |
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| Glacial event that occurred between 700 and 800 million years ago |
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| Hot water vent at volcanic seafloor rift |
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| Fossils of soft-bodied Proterozoic organisms |
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| Building blocks of protein |
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