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Sheet Got Rill
100
The transfer of heat through physical contact.
What is conduction?
100
The most recent geologic era.
What is cenozoic era?
100
Plate boundaries where deep ocean trenches sometimes form.
What are convergent boundaries?
100
A specific type of mineral found within ores.
What are metals?
100
The most common form of erosion in AZ.
What is wind erosion?
200
Theory that everything moves in one direction toward randomness.
What is Entropy?
200
Geologic era in which the majority of body systems found on Earth evolved.
What is the paleozoic era?
200
This form of boundary is slowly increasing the size of Iceland.
What is a divergent boundary?
200
A conglomeration of various microscopic minerals.
What is a Rock?
200
A form of erosion demarcated by small rivulets.
What is rill?
300
The cause of skin becoming darker when exposed to sunlight.
What is radiation?
300
The shortest eon on the geologic time scale.
What is the phanerozoic eon?
300
The process by which new land is formed at convergent boundaries.
What are volcanoes?
300
Prospectors used to bite coins to test this property of metals.
What is malleability?
300
The two variables responsible for determining types of erosion.
What are force and slope?
400
Circular patterns of heated and cooled fluids that drive many Earth systems.
What are convection cells?
400
The dominant plant life during the paleozoic era.
What are conifers?
400
Boundaries which build up large amounts of potential energy before becoming active.
What are transform boundaries?
400
Ancient coral reefs are considered this form of rock.
What is sedimentary organic?
400
Roots slowly breaking apart rocks are an example of
What is mechanical weathering?
500
Lightning is an example of this form of heat transfer between the atmosphere and geosphere.
What is conduction?
500
The major event that ended the mesozoic era.
What is meteorite contact?
500
A mountain range formed by the subduction of the Pacific plate against the South American plate.
What are the Andes?
500
A type of rock that plays "Sympathy for the Devil," and will never be your "Beast of Burden."
What are Rolling Stones?
500
The best type of soil for growing crops.
What is loam?