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What is the most active type of volcano?
Composite Volcano
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What are the three major rock types?
Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
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Astronomy is the study of what?
the universe
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Name Earth's 4 spheres.
Geosphere, Biosphere, Atmosphere, and Hydrosphere.
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What is the atomic number of Oxygen?
8
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Geology is the study of what?
The study of the Earth
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Most of Earth's earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain building occurs where?
At plate boundaries
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What is the smallest particle?
atoms
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What is the name of the supercontinent that Alfred Wegener proposed?
Pangaea
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What is the difference between the epicenter and focus?
The epicenter is on the surface above the focus. The focus is the point within the earth where the earthquake starts.
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What is the location on the surface directly above an Earthquake's focus called?
Epicenter
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What are the three layers of the Earth?
Core, mantle, crust
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Meteorology is the study of what?
The atmosphere and weather
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What does S-Wave stand for?
Secondary Wave
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What are the 3 types of volcanoes?
Composite, Shield, and Cinder Cone
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What are the pulverized rock, lava, and ash ejected from a volcano called?
Pyroclastic material
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When soil is saturated with water earthquakes can turn it into a fluid during a process called:
Liquefaction
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How many dimensions can a topographic map represent the earth's surface in?
3 dimensions
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What sciences make up Earth Science?
Geology, Astronomy, Meteorology, and Oceanography
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Lines of latitude measure distances how?
north or south of the equator
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What is the very large depression at the top of some volcanoes called?
A caldera
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What is it called when a mineral solid forms from falling out of a liquid?
Precipitation
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What is the difference between atomic mass and atomic number?
atomic mass is the number of protons and neutrons, the atomic number is just the number of protons
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What is subduction?
When one plate of oceanic lithosphere descends descends beneath another tectonic plate.
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How do intrusive igneous rocks form?
From the slow hardening of magma inside the earth.