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Earth's Structures
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Earth's History
Human Impact On Earth
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About 3.5
A mineral can be scratched by calcite but not by fingernail. What is its approximate hardness?
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Divergent, convergent, and transform
What are the 3 types of plate boundaries?
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Shield volcanoes and cinder cones
What types of volcanic landforms occur at divergent plate boundaries?
100
Skeleton, body parts, burrow, ancient coral reefs.
What features of the organism can you still see in a fossil?
100
material resources
trees that are used to make paper products are material resources or energy resources
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By temperature and pressure
How can sedimentary rock become metamorphic rock?
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No
Can a earthquake be prevented?
200
false
True or false, at divergent plate boundaries, plates move toward each other.
200
A fossilized structure that formed in sedimentary rock by animal activity on or in soft sediment.
What does trace fossil mean?
200
Decomposers
Decomposers or plants that live in the soil break down dead matter in the soil.
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The crust
Which of Earth's compositional layers make up the lithosphere?
300
The return of rock to its original shape after elastic deformation is called elastic rebound.
What is elastic rebound?
300
Shield, cinder cone, composite
What are the three types of volcanoes?
300
A break in the geologic record that is made when rock layers are eroded or when sediment is not deposited for a long period of time.
What is unconformity
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precipitation, snow,and, ice
What are the different sources of fresh water?
400
Convergent boundaries form when two plates collide where divergent boundaries are when two plates move away from each other.
How are convergent boundaries different from divergent boundaries?
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The movement of rock along a fault causes an earthquake.
What causes an earthquake?
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Broad base and gently sloping sides.
What are the main features of the shield volcanoes?
400
Radioactive decay
Fill in the blank, the break down of a radioactive isotope a stable isotope is called....
400
More cars= more pollution More buildings= more pollution More people= more people breathing carbon dioxide= more pollution
List three effects that an increase in urbanization can have on air quality.
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Tension
What type of stress causes fault?
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Directly above the focus on Earth's surface is the epicenter.
What is epicenter?
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Composite volcanoes
What type of volcanoes form on convergent boundaries?
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About 4.6 billion
How old is Earth?
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Conservation
Fill in the blank, blank is the wise use of natural resources