Questão 1
Questão
How are atoms structured?
Responda
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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
Questão 2
Questão
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.
Questão 3
Questão
An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons.
Questão 4
Questão
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
Questão 5
Questão
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
Questão 6
Questão
A solid can take on shapes of its container.
Questão 7
Questão
A liquid flows easily and is not easily compressible.
Questão 8
Questão
Gases have large spaces between particles and move freely.
Questão 9
Responda
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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
Questão 10
Questão
Mixtures cannot be separated easily.
Questão 11
Questão
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
Questão 12
Questão
What are some special features in identifying a mineral?
Questão 13
Questão
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
Questão 14
Questão
What should be on the y-axis of graphs?
Questão 15
Questão
What should be on the x-axis?
Questão 16
Questão
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
Questão 17
Questão
How do sedimentary Rocks form?
Questão 18
Questão
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
Questão 19
Questão
Latitude lines show north & South and include the Equator.
Questão 20
Questão
Longitude lines show east & west and the Prime Meridian is 0 degrees.
Questão 21
Questão
How many time zones are there?
Questão 22
Questão
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
Questão 23
Questão
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
Questão 24
Questão
The South Pole is at 90 degrees north.
Questão 25
Questão
What type of river is the oldest?
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Meandering
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Braided
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Anabranching
Questão 26
Questão
What is the time zone difference between Boston and Denver?
Questão 27
Questão
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
Questão 28
Questão
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
Questão 29
Questão
The quiet volcano is the shield volcano and it is round with sloping sides
Questão 30
Questão
Which type of volcano is the most explosive?
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Composite
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Shield
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Cinder Cone
Questão 31
Questão
What causes volcanoes to explode?
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Pressure of gases
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Shifting of plates
Questão 32
Questão
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
Questão 33
Questão
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
Questão 34
Questão
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
Questão 35
Questão
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
Questão 36
Questão
Which has the shortest wave length?
Responda
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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
Questão 37
Questão
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
Questão 38
Questão
Freshwater is denser than ocean water.
Questão 39
Questão
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
Questão 40
Questão
In what type of fault does the hanging wall slide down and the foot wall go up?
Responda
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normal
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reverse
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strike-slip
Questão 41
Questão
What is the epicenter?
Questão 42
Questão
What is the focus of an earthquake?
Questão 43
Questão
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
Questão 44
Questão
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
Questão 45
Questão
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
Questão 46
Questão
A contour line is a line on a map joining points of equal height above or below sea level
Questão 47
Questão
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
Questão 48
Questão
Scratching rocks together determines the hardness
Questão 49
Questão
There is 180 degrees between each pole and the equator.
Questão 50
Questão
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
Questão 51
Questão
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
Questão 52
Questão
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
Questão 53
Questão
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
Questão 54
Questão
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
Questão 55
Questão
What occurs when oceanic crust and continental crust collide and the oceanic crust goes under? Pick three.
Responda
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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
Questão 56
Questão
Which zone is below the water table?
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Zone of saturation
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Zone of aeration
Questão 57
Questão
Which zone is above the water table?
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Zone of saturation
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Zone of aeration
Questão 58
Questão
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
Questão 59
Questão
A map legend/key explains what the symbols on the map represent.
Questão 60
Questão
What process breaks down rocks?
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erosion
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weathering
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mass movement
Questão 61
Questão
What process moves the broken down material on Earth's surface?
Responda
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weathering
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erosion
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mass movement
Questão 62
Questão
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
Questão 63
Questão
If the wind is blowing from the west, which side of the sand dune will be the steepest?
Questão 64
Questão
Which is an example of a mixture?
Questão 65
Questão
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
Questão 66
Questão
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
Questão 67
Questão
What causes erosion and weathering to break down rocks?
Questão 68
Questão
Soil's A Horizon includes a concentration of organic matter and humus and is dark in color.
Questão 69
Questão
Soil's B Horizon is enriched with clay and minerals, is under A horizon, is less-developed and hardpan.
Questão 70
Questão
What are some characteristics of the C horizon?
Questão 71
Questão
How do sand dunes form?
Questão 72
Questão
Carrying capacity explains that the faster the flowing wate,r the more the load can take
Questão 73
Questão
What is the load of a stream?
Questão 74
Questão
What is a water table?
Responda
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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
Questão 75
Questão
What is the zone of contribution?
Responda
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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
Questão 76
Questão
What does the Richter Scale measure?
Responda
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magnitude
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intensity
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vibrations
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movement
Questão 77
Questão
What does the Mercalli Scale measure?
Responda
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magnitude
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intensity
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vibrations
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movement
Questão 78
Questão
Where do most volcanos occur?
Responda
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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
Questão 79
Questão
Extrusive igneous rocks reach the surface through volcanos and cool quickly.
Questão 80
Questão
Intrusive igneous rocks are glassy and have small crystals like obsidian.
Questão 81
Questão
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
Questão 82
Questão
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
Questão 83
Questão
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
Questão 84
Questão
What happens at the Mid-Ocean Ridge and Earth's crust?
Responda
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seafloor spreading
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subduction
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volcanos
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earthquakes
Questão 85
Questão
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
Questão 86
Questão
There is no difference between oceanic and continental crust.
Questão 87
Questão
What are the different types of plate boundaries?
Responda
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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
Questão 88
Questão
When plates collide, the denser plate sinks back into the asthenosphere, or if with continents, folded mountains form.
Questão 89
Questão
How is geologic time broken down?
Responda
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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
Questão 90
Questão
Super positioning says that the oldest rock layer is on the bottom, and they get older going up.
Questão 91
Questão
What is a rock layer that is out of place and a disruption to the order?
Responda
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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
Questão 92
Questão
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
Questão 93
Questão
Tides on Earth are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun.
Questão 94
Questão
What is the amount of salt in minerals in ocean water?
Responda
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salinity
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saltiness
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density
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sodium levels
Questão 95
Questão
What is an ocean current?
Questão 96
Questão
What happens in a convection current?
Responda
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warm air rises, and cold air sinks
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warm air sinks, and cold air rises
Questão 97
Questão
How long is a solar year in days? (approximately)
Questão 98
Questão
What type of lava does a shield volcano eject?
Questão 99
Questão
What type of lava does a composite volcano eject?
Questão 100
Questão
What type of lava does a cinder volcano elect?
Questão 101
Questão
What theory is accepted for the origin of our universe?
Responda
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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
Questão 102
Questão
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.
Questão 103
Questão
The day when daytime and night are of approximately equal duration is an equinox.
Questão 104
Questão
How can we tell how old a fossil is?
Responda
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relative dating
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radioactive dating
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comparative dating
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location dating
Questão 105
Questão
What elements are used for radioactive dating?
Responda
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Uranium-238
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Carbon-14
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Oxygen-10
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Hydrogen-2
Questão 106
Questão
Mendeleev is the father of geology
Questão 107
Questão
How important are certain organisms that lived on Earth but no longer live here to geologic time?
Questão 108
Questão
Why is tyrannosaurus rex an important fossil to find? Choose the most important
Questão 109
Questão
What is cross-cutting of rock formations that Hutton discovered?
Responda
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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.
Questão 110
Questão
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.
Questão 111
Questão
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
Questão 112
Questão
Sparks of electricity from water droplets blowing apart generates lightning in a thunderstorm.
Questão 113
Questão
What type of wind moves from California towards New York?
Responda
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prevailing westerlies
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prevailing easterlies
Questão 114
Questão
How does a rain drop form?
Questão 115
Questão
What process changes something from a liquid to a gas?
Responda
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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
Questão 116
Questão
What process changes something from a gas to a liquid?
Responda
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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
Questão 117
Questão
What process transfers energy through colliding materials?
Responda
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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
Questão 118
Questão
What process transfers energy through the flow of a heated substance?
Responda
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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
Questão 119
Questão
What process changes something from a solid to a gas?
Responda
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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
Questão 120
Questão
A cold front includes clouds and rain.
Questão 121
Questão
A warm front causes thunderstorms.
Questão 122
Questão
What are the main stages of the Star Cycle?
Responda
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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
Questão 123
Questão
Spring tide occurs during a full moon and it has the highest high tide and the lowest low tides.