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100
A body of ice that flows
What is a glacier?
100
Amount of open space in an aquifer
What is porosity?
100
The erosive outside curve of a stream
What is a cutbank?
100
Rocks composed of the broken up bits of other rocks
What are sedimentary rocks?
100
In this boundary type, oceanic plates move apart as new crust forms from the upwelling of magma
What is a divergent boundary?
200
Where snow layers turn to ice
What is the accumulation zone?
200
degree of interconnectedness of open space in an aquifer
What is permeabillity?
200
Where currents slow on the inside of a curve and sediments deposit in a stream
What is the point bar?
200
The "parent" of an igneous rock?
What is magma
200
The second wave to arrive at a seismic monitoring station after an earthquake that does not travel through liquids.
What is an S-wave?
300
The area of a glacier that experiences the greatest flow
What is the top?
300
The surficial expression of the water table
What is a lake or stream
300
A stream with many channels that cross and islands
What is a braided stream?
300
Two major controls on the formation of metamorphic rocks
What are heat and pressure?
300
Conchoidal fracture, no cleavage, white streak, hardness of 7, occurs in many colors, vitreous luster
What is mineral Quartz?
400
The zone in which loss outpaces gain
What is the ablation zone?
400
A well that pumps under its own pressure from a confined aquifer
What is an artesian well
400
zone of a river valley were flood sediments deposit
What is floodplain?
400
Limestones and mudstones abound in this tectonic setting
What is oceanic basin?
400
Hot spots like Hawaii tell Geologists about this important aspect of plate tectonics
What is rate of plate motion?
500
When glaciers run into a body of water, this process forms icebergs
What is calving?
500
A layer that prevents the flow of water between aquifers
What is a confining layer
500
Natural fluctuations in driving and resisting factors
What is Lane's balance?
500
Layering in a rock that are crystalline, align, and all about the same size
What is folliation or metamorphic rock?
500
A fold cored by young rocks
What is an anticline?