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How are atoms structured?
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Electrons and neutrons are located in the nucleus, protons surround nucleus
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Molecules and neutrons are located in the nucleus, electrons surround nucleus
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Protons and neutrons are located in the nucleus, electrons surround nucleus
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Protons and electrons are located in the nucleus, neutrons surround nucleus
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How do we determine the mass and number of an atom?
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Mass is equal to the number of neutrons in the nucleus, and the number is the sum of protons and electrons.
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Mass is the sum of protons and neutrons, and the number is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus.
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Mass is the sum of electrons and neutrons, and the number is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus.
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Mass is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus, and the number is the sum of neutrons and electrons.
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An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons.
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What is an isotope?
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Two or more forms of the same element that contain equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei
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An element with more protons than neutron
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A pair of valence electrons in an element
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A group of elements that have the same amount of protons but different numbers of neutrons
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What are the different states of matter?
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Gas
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Liquid
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Vapor
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Plasma
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Condensation
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Solid
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Volatile
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A solid can take on shapes of its container.
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A liquid flows easily and is not easily compressible.
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Gases have large spaces between particles and move freely.
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Heated to temperatures of 5,000 degrees C
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Least commonly found state of matter
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Another word for a gas
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Collisions knock atoms together that the electrons are knocked away from the atoms
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Found in Stars, Sun, Lightning, Light Bulbs, and neon signs
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Mixtures cannot be separated easily.
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What are compounds?
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Composed of atoms of two or more different elements that are chemically combined
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Composed of multiple atoms of one element that are chemically combined
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Composed of different elements that are physically combined
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Composed of multiple atoms of one element that are physically combined
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What are some special features in identifying a mineral?
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Field Tests to identify a mineral sample.
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Color
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Lust
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Texture
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Streak
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Weight
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Size
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Hardness
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Cleavage & Fracture
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Ores
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Gems
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What should be on the y-axis of graphs?
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What should be on the x-axis?
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What are the causes for a sedimentary rock to turn into a metamorphic rock?
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Changed by heat, pressure, and/or chemical action
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Weathering & Erosion
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melting and Solidification
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How do sedimentary Rocks form?
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In what Type of rock can a fossil be found?
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Sedimentary
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Metamorphic
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Igneous
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Latitude lines show north & South and include the Equator.
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Longitude lines show east & west and the Prime Meridian is 0 degrees.
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How many time zones are there?
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What is the equator?
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0 degrees latitude
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0 degrees longitude
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180 degrees longitude
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90 degrees latitude
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Each Longitude line is 15 degrees, how much time is in between?
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one hour
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two hours
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one day
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12 hours
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The South Pole is at 90 degrees north.
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What type of river is the oldest?
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Meandering
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Braided
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Anabranching
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What is the time zone difference between Boston and Denver?
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What is the energy released during an earthquake?
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magnitude
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intensity
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seismic waves
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aftershock
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Where are you safest during an earthquake?
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Under a sturdy table or in a door frame
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Under a sturdy table or move quickly
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In a door frame or move quickly
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The quiet volcano is the shield volcano and it is round with sloping sides
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Which type of volcano is the most explosive?
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Composite
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Shield
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Cinder Cone
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What causes volcanoes to explode?
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Pressure of gases
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Shifting of plates
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Where is the Ring of Fire located?
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Outside of the Pacific Ocean
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Outside of the Atlantic Ocean
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Outside of the Indian Ocean
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Outside of the Arctic Ocean
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Only In Asia
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Only In America
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Only In Europe
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Only In Africa
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In what time period is the early man formed?
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Cenozoic
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Paleozoic
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Mesozoic
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Precambrian
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What phase of the moon comes after the New Moon
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Waxing Crescent
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Waning Crescent
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Waxing Quarter
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Waning Quarter
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What is a wave's length?
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From crest to crest
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From trough to crest
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From trough to trough
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Which has the shortest wave length?
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gamma ray
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UV rays
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Radio
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Micro wave
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Infrared
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Visible
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X-Ray
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Which has the longest wave length?
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Radio
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Microwave
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Infrared
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Visible
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ultraviolet
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X-ray
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Gamma ray
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Freshwater is denser than ocean water.
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What type of clouds create thunderstorms?
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cumulonimbus
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stratus
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cumulus
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cirrus
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stratocumulus
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In what type of fault does the hanging wall slide down and the foot wall go up?
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normal
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reverse
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strike-slip
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What is the epicenter?
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What is the focus of an earthquake?
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Which type of seismic wave is the fastest?
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Primary waves
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Secondary Waves
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Surface waves
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What are the three types of seismic waves?
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primary
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secondary
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surface
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normal
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reverse
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strikeslip
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transform
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divergent
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convergent
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What are the three types of rivers listed from oldest to youngest?
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straight, braided, meandering
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meandering, braided, straight
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braided, straight, meandering
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braided, meandering, straight
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A contour line is a line on a map joining points of equal height above or below sea level
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How do you know if a rock is fluorescent?
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shining a UV light on it
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putting it in the dark
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it had bright colors
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Scratching rocks together determines the hardness
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There is 180 degrees between each pole and the equator.
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In what hemisphere does the Coriolis effect turn clockwise?
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Northern Hemisphere
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Southern Hemisphere
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Western Hemisphere
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Eastern Hemisphere
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In what hemisphere does the Coriolis effect turn counterclockwise?
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Northern Hemisphere
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Southern Hemisphere
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Eastern Hemisphere
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Western Hemisphere
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What is a space rock called when it enters Earth's atmosphere?
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meteor
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asteroid
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comet
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meteorite
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What type of thunderstorm is created by an extreme change in temperature over land vs water?
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seabreeze thunderstorm
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single cell
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supercell
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multicell
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In which direction does weather often move in the United States?
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North to south
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South to north
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East to west
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West to east
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What occurs when oceanic crust and continental crust collide and the oceanic crust goes under? Pick three.
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earthquakes
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volcano
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subduction zone
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mountains
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island
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Which zone is below the water table?
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Zone of saturation
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Zone of aeration
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Which zone is above the water table?
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Zone of saturation
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Zone of aeration
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What is caused by water expanding when it freezes?
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ice wedging
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cross-cutting
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glaciers
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A map legend/key explains what the symbols on the map represent.
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What process breaks down rocks?
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erosion
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weathering
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mass movement
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What process moves the broken down material on Earth's surface?
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weathering
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erosion
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mass movement
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What is the most permeable layer through which water flows easily?
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aquifer
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well
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bedrock
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humus
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If the wind is blowing from the west, which side of the sand dune will be the steepest?
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Which is an example of a mixture?
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Which of the following is a compound?
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water
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table salt
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sucrose
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soil
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air
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iron
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oxygen
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What are the four agents of erosion?
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wind
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water
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gravity
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glaciers
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sun
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soil
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sand
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What causes erosion and weathering to break down rocks?
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Soil's A Horizon includes a concentration of organic matter and humus and is dark in color.
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Soil's B Horizon is enriched with clay and minerals, is under A horizon, is less-developed and hardpan.
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What are some characteristics of the C horizon?
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How do sand dunes form?
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Carrying capacity explains that the faster the flowing wate,r the more the load can take
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What is the load of a stream?
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What is a water table?
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upper boundary of the zone of saturation
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ground water flow in permeable layer
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area surrounding a pumping cell and supplies groundwater to recharge the cell
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What is the zone of contribution?
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upper boundary of the zone of saturation
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ground water flow in permeable layer
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area surrounding a pumping cell and supplies groundwater to recharge the cell
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What does the Richter Scale measure?
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magnitude
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intensity
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vibrations
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movement
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What does the Mercalli Scale measure?
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magnitude
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intensity
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vibrations
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movement
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Where do most volcanos occur?
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plate boundaries
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on land
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in the ocean
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the middle of plates
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Extrusive igneous rocks reach the surface through volcanos and cool quickly.
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Intrusive igneous rocks are glassy and have small crystals like obsidian.
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What is a hot spot?
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unusually hot region's of Earth's mantle where high-temperature plumes of mantle material rise toward the surface
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where two plates meet and collide and form a volcano
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Where an active volcano is located
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concentrated magma in the mantle
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How were the Hawaiian Islands formed?
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from a hot spot
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plate boundary
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convection currents
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Which of the following are part of a wave?
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fetch
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trough
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crest
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wave length
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wave height
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breaking point
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backwash
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swash
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What happens at the Mid-Ocean Ridge and Earth's crust?
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seafloor spreading
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subduction
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volcanos
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earthquakes
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What is a subduction zone?
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Where denser crust sinks back into the asthenosphere
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Where denser crust sinks back into the lithosphere
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Where lighter crust sinks back into the asthenosphere
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Where lighter crust sinks back into the lithosphere
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There is no difference between oceanic and continental crust.
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What are the different types of plate boundaries?
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transform
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convergent
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divergent
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normal
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reverse
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fault
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line
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When plates collide, the denser plate sinks back into the asthenosphere, or if with continents, folded mountains form.
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How is geologic time broken down?
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era
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eon
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period
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epoch
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time
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century
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decade
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Super positioning says that the oldest rock layer is on the bottom, and they get older going up.
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What is a rock layer that is out of place and a disruption to the order?
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unconformity
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nonconformity
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index fossil
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key bed
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disconformity
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What is uniformitarianism?
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The processes and natural laws that occur on Earth now, have always been at work on the Earth
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The processes and natural laws that occur on Earth now, have not always been at work on the Earth
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That every rock layer at the same depth is the same throughout the Earth
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That every rock layer at the same depth is not the same throughout the Earth
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Tides on Earth are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun.
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What is the amount of salt in minerals in ocean water?
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salinity
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saltiness
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density
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sodium levels
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What is an ocean current?
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What happens in a convection current?
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warm air rises, and cold air sinks
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warm air sinks, and cold air rises
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How long is a solar year in days? (approximately)
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What type of lava does a shield volcano eject?
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What type of lava does a composite volcano eject?
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What type of lava does a cinder volcano elect?
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What theory is accepted for the origin of our universe?
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The Big Bang theory
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Steady State
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Creation theory
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Oscillating universe
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Eternal inflation
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A solstice is when the sun reaches the highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, winter and summer solstice are the shortest and longest days.
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The day when daytime and night are of approximately equal duration is an equinox.
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How can we tell how old a fossil is?
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relative dating
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radioactive dating
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comparative dating
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location dating
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What elements are used for radioactive dating?
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Uranium-238
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Carbon-14
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Oxygen-10
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Hydrogen-2
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Mendeleev is the father of geology
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How important are certain organisms that lived on Earth but no longer live here to geologic time?
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Why is tyrannosaurus rex an important fossil to find? Choose the most important
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What is cross-cutting of rock formations that Hutton discovered?
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When one type of rock cuts through other rocks, it had to form after the rocks that it cuts.
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When one type of rock cuts through other rocks, it had to form before the rocks that it cuts.
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Rock layering is important in understanding the passing of time in Earth and measuring it, because different layers contain different fossils and types of soil.
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How does density affect the movement of warm and cold ocean water?
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Warm water rises to the surface and then cold water sinks to the bottom, when heated up this deep water rises and the warm water cools and sinks.
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Cold water rises to the surface and then warm water sinks to the bottom, when cooled this deep water rises and the cold water warms and sinks.
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Warm and cool water have the same density and there is no movement between
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Sparks of electricity from water droplets blowing apart generates lightning in a thunderstorm.
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What type of wind moves from California towards New York?
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prevailing westerlies
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prevailing easterlies
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How does a rain drop form?
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What process changes something from a liquid to a gas?
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evaporation
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condensation
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Conduction
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Convection
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sublimation
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What process changes something from a gas to a liquid?
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evaporation
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condensation
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conduction
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convection
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sublimation
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What process transfers energy through colliding materials?
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evaporation
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condensation
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conduction
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convection
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sublimation
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What process transfers energy through the flow of a heated substance?
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evaporation
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condensation
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conduction
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convection
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sublimation
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What process changes something from a solid to a gas?
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evaporation
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condensation
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conduction
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convection
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sublimation
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A cold front includes clouds and rain.
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A warm front causes thunderstorms.
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What are the main stages of the Star Cycle?
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nebula
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protostar
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star
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red giant
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white dwarf
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gas giants
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terrestrial
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planetary nebula
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Spring tide occurs during a full moon and it has the highest high tide and the lowest low tides.