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43 Cards in this Set
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How does acid rain connect to the water cycle?
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Because wet deposition interfers with acid rain. Acid rain is formed by percipitation
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How is acid rain connected to the carbon cycle?
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Because NOx and SO2 is producted by combustion, therefore creating Acid Rain.
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What are the primary acids found in acid rain?
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NOx and SO2
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List three effects of acid rain?
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1. Damage to building materials.
2. Acidification of lakes 3. Danger to human/animal health |
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Magma
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Molten rock beneath Earth's surface
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Lava
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Magma that has reached the Earth's surfance and erupted from a volcano
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Pyroclasts
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Large rock size fragments that erupt from volcanoes
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Vents
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Areas where magma reaches the Earth's surface
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Stratovolcano
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Tall, steep moutains made of layers of volcanic lava and ash
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Cinder Cone Volcanos
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Steep piles of loose pyroclasts
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Geothermal Energy
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Can cause geysers
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Balsaltic Magma
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Associated w. sheild volcanoes
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Stratovolcanoes typically occue at what type of boundary?
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Convergent Plate Boundaries
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Shield volcanoes have what type of magma?
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Basaltic magma
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Hawaiian volcanoes are an example of what type of volcano?
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Shield
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Stratovolcanoes are associated with what type of eruption?
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Quiet and Explosive
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Magma that is high in silica is ______
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Associated with explosive eruptions.
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Convergent Boundary:
What happens to lithosphere? |
Lithosphere is destroyed and mountains are formed
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Divergent Boundary:
What happens to lithosphere? |
New lithosphere is formed
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Transform Boundary:
What is an example? |
California
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Asthenosphere
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A layer of mantle that is composed to material that flows
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Epicenter
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Where seismic waves reach the earth's surface directly above focus
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Focus:
How deep? What about earthquake? |
Up to 50kn deep where an earthquake begins
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Faunal Succession
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fossils can be used to identify the relative age of layers of a rock formation
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Lateral Continuity
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Sediment extends in all directions when it forms rock layers
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Superposition
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the bottom layer of rock is older than the top layer
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Igneous:
How formed? |
Formed from cooling molten rock
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Metamorphic:
How formed? |
Formed under intense heat or pressure
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Sedimentary:
How formed? |
Formed in layers from accumulated sediments
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Continental Drift
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the pieces of Pangea moved apart to form seven continents
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Earthquakes are most likely to occur with this plate boundary....
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Transform
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Earthquake is location is found by determining:
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the difference in arrival times between s and p waves
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Give an example of a mt. formed at continental-continental plate boundary...
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Mt. Everest
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Why is the earth like a giant recycling machine?
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when lithosphere plates are created at one boundary they are destroyed at another
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What types of currents drive the rock cycle?
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convection currents
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What causes hot spots?
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Caused by crustal plates moved over a hot plume in the mantle
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What three things are associated with divergent plate boundaries?
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1. mid ocean ridge
2. sea floor spreading 3. new lithosphere forming |
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What is the name of the two land masses formed from Pangea breaking apart?
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Laurasia and Gondwanaland
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Density Formula
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D = M / V
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Mass Formula
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M = D x V
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Three phases of water in order from slowest to fastest.
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solid - liquid - gas
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True or false?::
In the gas state, molecules move around freely. |
True
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What are the three types of convergent boundaries?
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Continental-continental
oceanic-oceanic oceanic-continental |