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Name one tectonic plate that is interacting with the South American Plate to uplift the Andes Mountains.
What is the Nazca Plate?
This metamorphic rock shows a banded texture
What is Gneiss?
This pattern in the mantle is believed to cause the formation in the mid-ocean ridge
What is Convection Currents?
a huge undersea earthquake off the Alaskan coastline could produce a
What is a Tsunami?
The correct explanation of why ice floats is that compared to liquid water, solid ice
What is less dense?
The approximate latitude of Utica, New York, is
Which process is necessary for the formation of igneous rocks?
What is solidication?
Andrija Mohorovici discovered the interface between the crust and the mantle that is now named for him. the name of this layer is
Which layer of Earth is composed of both the crust and the rigid mantle?
What is the Lithosphere?
Describe one emergency preparation that may reduce the loss of life from a future eruption of the volcano.
What is Mr. Miller will decide what is acceptable as a response.
What is remains the same.
Identify two uses for the mineral graphite.
What is pencil lead and lubricates
The higher density crustal plate is
What is Basaltic Oceanic Crust
Name one region of the United States that is likely to experience a major damaging earthquake. Explain why an earthquake is likely to occur in that region.
Scientists can plan to photograph a solar eclipse because most astronomical events are
What is Cyclic and Predictable?
Why are no S-wave recieved on the other side of the Earth?
Which sequence of change in rock type occurs as shale is subjected to increasing heat and pressure?
What is shale than slate than phyllite than schist than gneiss
Evidence in igneous rocks suggest that through geologic time, Earths magnetic poles have
What is reversed their poles
How long did it take the first S-wave to travel 500 kilometers to reach this seismic station?
What is any answers from 2 minutes 0 seconds to 2 minutes and 20 seconds?
The circumference of Earth is approximately 40,000 kilometers at the Equator. What is Earth's approximate rate of rotation, in kilometers per hour, at the Equator?
What is 1,667km/hr
The shape of the halite crystal is a direct result of the
What is the internal arrangement of atoms in the crystal
What is the largest silt particle that could be found in the siltstone layer?
What is 0.006 cm?
Compared to oceanic crust, continental crust is generally
What is older and thicker?
A seismic station recorded the arrival of a P-wave at 10:00:00 am. The S-wave arrival was recorded at 10:04:20 am. What is the approximate distance between the earthquake epicenter and the seismic station?
What is 2900 Km Or 2.9x10^3km
Erosional rate = depositional rate
Amount of insolation = amount of terrestrial radiation
Rate of condensation = rate of evaporation
In which situation would each relationship exist?
What is Dynamic Equilibrium is reached?