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63 Cards in this Set
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What rock is composed of various particals cemented together?
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Sedimentary Rock
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What is the apparent backward motion of a planet?
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Retrograde
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What is a rock changed by heat and pressure?
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Metamorphic.
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What sphere are you most likely to find rock?
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Lithosphere
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What are the 3 outer planets visible without a telescope?
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Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
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What is the basic building block of rock?
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Minerals.
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What is the type of wave that travels as compressions and rare fractions of particals?
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Transverse.
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Besides the sun, what is the brightest star in our sky?
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Sirus.
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What is the azmuth?
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360 measure around the horizon.
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What is the corriolus effect?
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The apparant curve put on wind due to earth's rotation.
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What variable in an experiment is under the control of the experimenter?
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Independent.
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What is ignious rock?
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Rock formed when magma cools and solidifes.
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What type of wave has a particle motion perpandicular to wave motion?
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Longitudinal
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What is the measure of the total number of molecular collisions in an area?
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Pressure.
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What is the ecliptic?
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Apparant annual path of sun, planets, and moon as seen from the earth.
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What's the density equation?
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Mass / volume
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What is the measure of kenetic energy of molecules in an object?
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Temperature
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What substance can contain the most heat per unit of all naturally occuring substances?
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Water
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What type of fault is caused when sections of earth move together?
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Reverse fault
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If a meteorite isn't stoney it likely contains...
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Iron
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In the simulated stream lab, when you made the end of the tray higher you were simulating the...
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Gradient.
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Name a rock that will react with hydrochloric acid.
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Limestone, marble
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What type of fault is caused when sections of the earth have a horizontal movement?
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Strike slip
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What was the micro fossil used in the fossil forensic lab?
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Clynodaunt
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Name an igneous rock.
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Pumus
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What was the eleged 1st continent?
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Pangea
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What is convergence?
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Two plate techtonics moving towards each other.
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What type of motion caused the mid-antlantic ridge?
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Divergant
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The act of a plate "burrying" under another.
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Subduction.
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What is the type of large-scale plate motion near California?
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Transform Boundry.
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What is the temperature scale where water freezes at 0?
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C
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What type of statistic was used to determine the results of the micrometeorite sample?
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T-Test.
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What is a wave length?
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The measure of a wave from one crest to another.
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What is frequency?
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Number of wave lengths passing a point in 1 second.
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What is the way humans sense wave length of a light wave?
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Color
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On a weather map, what is the line with several blue triangles pointing forward represent?
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Cold Front
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On a weather map, what is the line with several red circles pointing forward represent?
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Warm Front
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What are the lines on a weather map connecting points of equal pressure?
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Iceobars
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What is the type of fault in which the earth moves apart?
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Normal Fault
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What is the temperature in which relative humity is equal to 100%?
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Due Point
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What is the term used to discribe a decrease in temperature as you increase in the troposhpere?
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Ateobatic
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What determines the size of crystals in ignious rock?
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Cooling rate
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On an eroded syncline, where will the youngest rock be?
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In the middle.
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What is the layer of earth directly below the crust?
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Mantle or asthenosphere.
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What is the old earth theory?
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Point of view that seees days in Genesis as long periods of times.
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What is the general direction of weather movement?
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West to East
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What is circumpolar?
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A constalation that seems to never set below the horizon.
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A solar eclipse occurs when the moon blocks our view of the sun. What would be the phase of the moon at this time?
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New
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When the earth in between the moon and the sun what phase would the moon be in?
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Full
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Eratostenes was the first to consider the...
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True shape and size of the earth.
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Jupiter is in the middle of retrograde and is near the western horizon, what time is it?
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Sunrise.
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What does the Foulcault pendulum show us?
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Seasonal differences.
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A consistant, repeating pattern of atoms would be considered what?
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Crystal
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What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
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Nitrogen
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What effects weather?
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Solar insolation
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Generally if temperature of air goes up, what happens to relative to humidity?
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It goes down.
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Wind tends to blow from ___ pressure to ___ pressure.
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High to low
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How can we distinguish atmospheric layers?
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Temperature changes
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What is the material carried by a stream called?
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Load
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What is the triangular, flat region at the mouth of an old river called?
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Delta
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What are three characteristics of a young river?
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Sluggish flow, rapid erosion at the edges, high gradient.
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A scarp that appears to be leaning toward you is likely to be the result of what type of fault?
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Reverse
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What worldview would be consistant with the following statement, "sedimentary rock layers were formed by gradual deposition of particles."
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Uniformatarian.
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