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23 Cards in this Set
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The first metals used by humans before 1500 bc were iron and copper that were found in their natural form.
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False
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With the use of earthquake seismic waves, Andrija Mohoroviicic is known for what major discovery?
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The boundary between the crust and the mantle
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Major branch of geology that examines the origin and evolution of Earth's continents, oceans, atmosphere and life through time.
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Historical Geology
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Nonrenewable resources are those materials of which earth contains a fixed quantity and which are replenished by natural processes operating on a short timescale. T or F
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False
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which is not a trace fossil:A) coprolite in sandstone B) Dinosaur track in a siltstone C) Clam shell in limestone
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C) Clam in limestone
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Major branch of geology that deals with rocks and minerals, and the internal and external processes that form earth.
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Physical Geology
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Since 1965 the world population growth rate has been increasing. T or F
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False
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What are the fossils that preserves the earliest life forms on earth
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Stromatolites
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Field of geology that deals with how humans interact and impact the environment ad in addition to how the natural environment has impacted humans
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Environmental Geology
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A preserved imprint of a human body in the sand would result in a body fossil. T or F
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False
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Energy to support modern society is largely based on our ability to produce what natural resource?
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wood
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When referring to metal-bearing materials, ___________ are that part of resources that cna be economically and legally extracted at a given time
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reserves
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Field of geology that deals with faults in the crust
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structural geology
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A concentration of naturally occurring solid, liquid, or gaseous material, in or on earth's crust in such form and amount that economic extraction of a commodity from the concentration is currently or potentially feasible.
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mineral resource
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The geologic time scale is based on assemblages of fossilized plants that have been document globally. T or F
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False
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Strategic resources are those resources such as metals that have become important to certain key industry. T or F
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True
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Discipline of geology that studies ancient life on earth through time
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paleontology
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Gold was found on the american river in california in 1849 leading to the gold rush. What was the location?
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sutter mill
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many of the major boundaries in the geologic time scale such as K-T boundary are based on..
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mass extinctions in the fossil record
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movement of materials from rocks to soils to streams to oceans and back to rocks is known as
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geochemical cycling
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in 1980, the U.S. contributed what percentage of Cu to the total world production?
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`15%
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How many major mass extinctions are preserved in rock record?
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5
Permian Cambrian Devonian Cretaceous Ordovician |
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Of all the mass extinctions, which one had the biggest impact on the fossil record?
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Permian
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