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What is the smallest particle of an element that has all of the characteristics of that element?
What is an atom.
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What is a mineral?
A naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a chemical composition and a definite crystalline structure.
100
Meteorology is the study of what?
Weather and atmospheric phenomenons.
100
What is a magnetometer?
A device that can detect small changes in magnetic fields.
100
What is the definition of a geologic timescale.
A record of Earth's history.
200
What are the 3 parts of an atom?
What are neutron, proton, and electron.
200
What are the 2 factors involved in mechanical weathering?
Temperature and pressure.
200
A barometer measures what?
Air pressure.
200
Why are ocean-floor rocks so young compared to continental rocks?
Seafloor spreading.
200
What is evidence of regression?
A stacked sequence of limestone.
300
What is a characteristic you can use to identify minerals?
What are color, streak, luster, texture, hardness, cleavage/fracture.
300
What do dunes form?
Sand is deposited as wind blows in one general direction. Over time, the wind-blown sand develops into dunes.
300
Precipitation does not include what form of water?
Gas.
300
Why are the 3 types of magma?
Basaltic, andesitic, and rhyolitic (BAR).
300
What important event occurred during the Mesozoic era?
The break up of Pangaea.
400
What are 3 of the 5 factors that affect magma formation?
What are temperature, pressure, water content, and mineral composition.
400
What is the relationship between a watershed and a divide?
A divide is a high land area that separates one watershed from another.
400
The highest part of a wave is called the _____, the lowest part is called the ______.
Crest, trough.
400
80% of all volcanoes are found on what fault boundary?
Convergent.
400
What do vascular plants contain?
Tissue for circulating water and nutrients through their steams and leaves.
500
Describe or draw the rock cycle.
500
What is the product of this formula? carbon dioxide + dihydrogen monoxide (water) = ?
Carbonic acid.
500
The Maunder Minimum corresponds to the time period known as the _______.
The little ice age.
500
Name the two segments of a stress-strain curve.
Straight segment and curve segment.
500
What formed Gandwana?
South America, Africa, India, and Antarctica.