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What is the Egyptians?
These early explorers and traders were known for shipbuilding and piloting
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What are all of the Earth's continents?
Pangaea was an ancient supercontinent made up of these continents
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What is a magnetometer?
Device that can detect small changes in magnetic fields
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What is water, other substances, and salts?
What Ocean water is made up of
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What is an open flame?
Flammable materials, like alcohol, should never be dispensed or used near...
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What is the Library of Alexandria?
This building was founded in 3rd century B.C. and housed the "world's knowledge"
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What is, the continent was once located close to the equator?
Coal beds in Antarctica indicated that this continent
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What is iron?
Minerals containing this act like small compass needles and record the orientation of Earth's magnetic field at the same time of their formation
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What is hot water?
Solids are more soluble in this kind of water
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What is notify your instructor?
If a laboratory fire erupts, immediately...
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Who are the Vikings?
This group of people made improvements in shipbuilding and had trade and colonization
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What is he couldn't explain how or why the continents moved?
Most scientists at the time rejected Wegner's hypothesis of continental drift for this reason
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What is geomagnetic time scale?
Was constructed from data gathered from continental basalt flows
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What is salinity?
This is the toatal amount of dissolved salts in the sea water
300
What is advise your science instructor that you wear contact lenses?
If you wear contact lenses in the school laboratory,...
400
Who is Leif Ericson?
This man discovered North America 500 years before Columbus
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What are plate boundaries?
Tectonic plates interact at these places
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What is isochron?
This type of line connects points on a map that have the same age
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What is precipitation?
This is one of the natural processes that increase water in the ocean
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What is disposed of according to your instructor's directions?
After completing an expirement, all chemical wastes should be...
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Who are the Arabs and Polynesians?
These two groups of people explored the Indian and Pacific Ocean
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What are divergent boundaries?
These are places where tectonic plates come together
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What is new ocean crust?
Each cycle of spreading and magma intrusion along an ocean ridge results in the formation of this
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What is evaporation of freezing?
A way to naturally remove salt
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What is discuss the issue with your instructor?
If a lab experiment is not completed, you should