What is one part of the Law of Conservation of Energy?
Part 1:Energy can't be destroyed or created. Part 2: Energy can be transferred from one place to another or converted from one form to a different form.
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A law.
What is a general statement about how the natural world behaves that seems to be fundamental to the universe and has been supported by countless observations and experiments.
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The volcano that is least explosive but largest in size.
What is shield?
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The principle that states groups of fossil plants and animals occur in the geologic record in a definite and determinable order. A period of geologic time can be recognized by its respective fossils.
What is principle of faunal succession.
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What is the order of the three periods of the Mesozoic?
What is Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous?
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The heat caused by the rubbing of two surfaces.
What is friction?
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Earthquakes, volcanic island arcs, subduction zones, and ocean trenchs are all features of what boundary? Be specific with the type
What is ocean-ocean convergent?
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This magma will solidify second.
What is andesitic?
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Principle that states " geologic features, such as faults, and igneous intrusions are younger than the rocks they cut"
What is principle of crosscutting relations.
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These are wide-spread, restricted, known time of existence, common, and easily recognized.
What is Index Fossils.
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The Kinetic Energy formula.
What is KE=(1/2)(m)(v^2)
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The upper mantle and crust is part of the
What is lithosphere?
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Ash, lapilli, blocks and bombs classified by size are examples of this.
What is pyroclastics?
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An eroded surface that overlies rock layers that are tilted.
What is angular uncomformity.
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"Old life"
What is Paleozoic?
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Define the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
What is "when energy changes form, it becomes less useful(typically lost as heat).
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What is warmer? Trench or mid-ocean ridge?
What is mid-ocean ridge?
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The higher the silica content the more _________ the volcanic eruption.
What is violent?
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The principle that states that the processes occurring today have occurred since Earth formed.
What is Principle of Uniformitarianism?
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Process of filling in pore spaces with mineral substances.