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100
The notion that fundamental physical principles operating today have done so throughout Earth's history.
What is Actualism
100
Sixty percent of your study preparation for an exam should be devoted to this.
What is Active Retrieval?
100
Say or write the main idea in 10 words or less.
What is Paragraph Shrinking?
100
Icy water, ear plugs, finger tapping, breathing.
What are Mercy Supplies?
100
Verbs re-purposed as nouns that often express qualities, ideas, or emotions.
What are abstract nouns?
200
A nineteenth century idea that floods caused by supernatural forces formed most of the rocks that we today at Earth's surface.
What is Catastrophism?
200
Intrusive igneous rock is always younger than the rock it invades.
What is intrusive relationships?
200
Make predictions, visualize, reread and notice patterns.
What is a proficient reader?
200
Formed by the cooling of molten matter to the point at which it hardens or freezes.
What is an igneous rock?
200
The endless pathway along which rocks of various kinds are changed into rocks of other kinds.
What is the rock cycle?
300
A naturally occurring inorganic solid element or compound.
What is a mineral?
300
All strata are horizontal when they form.
What is one of Steno's laws?
300
Examine typical chapter construction, the table of contents, and glossary.
What is previewing a textbook?
300
The number of times it takes to develop a new habit.
What is 21-27 times?
300
Rocky surfaces that stand exposed and readily available for study.
What are outcrops?
400
The arrangement of sedimentary rocks in discrete layers.
What is stratification?
400
The practice of studying one thing you need to learn in a chunk of time.
What is Massed Practice?
400
He determined that life evolves even in the absence of physical changes.
Who is Darwin?
400
The collective term for the chemical and physical processes that break down rocks of any kind at Earth's surface.
What is weathering?
400
The two properties necessary for a material to be deemed a mineral.
What are chemical formula and crystal lattice?
500
This ordering reflects the sequence of organic evolution on Earth.
What is fossil succession?
500
Geologic periods divided into formal units
What are epochs?
500
The present is key to the past.
What is the principle of uniformitarianism?
500
Sedimentary rocks made of fragments of skeletons of once-living organisms.
What is limestone?