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100
All strata form horizontally.
What is one of Steno's laws?
100
Geologic periods divided into formal units.
What are epochs?
100
These rocks are formed by the cooling of molten material to the point at which it hardens or freezes.
What are Igneous rocks?
100
The number of times it takes to develop a new habit.
What is 21-27 times?
100
A process that loosens rock and sends it downhill.
What is erosion?
200
An ordering that reflects the sequence of organic evolution on Earth.
What is fossil succession?
200
The notion that fundamental physical principles operating today have done so throughout Earth's history.
What is Actualism?
200
The collective term for the chemical and physical processes that break down rocks of any kind at Earth's surface.
What is weathering?
200
Icy water, ear plugs, tapping, breathing.
What are Mercy Supplies?
200
When the subject in a sentence receives the action.
What is a passive verb?
300
The arrangement of sedimentary rocks in discrete layers.
What is stratification?
300
A naturally occurring, inorganic solid element or compound.
What is a mineral?
300
The present is key to the past.
What is the principle of uniformitarianism?
300
Rocky surfaces that stand exposed and are readily available for study.
What are outcrops?
300
Verbs that are repurposed to serve as nouns that usually express qualities, ideas, or emotions.
What are Abstract Nouns?
400
Sixty percent of your time and effort in learning and preparing for exams should be devoted to this practice.
What is Active Retrieval?
400
Say or write the main idea in 10 words or less.
What is paragraph shrinking?
400
A 19th century idea that suggested that floods caused by supernatural forces formed most of the rocks that we see today at the Earth's surface.
What is Catastrophism?
400
Vast geologic time was central to his view of Earth's history.
Who is James Hutton?
400
Material deposited on Earth's surface by water, ice, or air, or by gravitational transport down a slope.
What is sediment?
500
The practice of mixing up the order of things you are trying to learn (such as baseball pitches).
What is Interleaved Study?
500
It is essential that you determine this before you begin a reading assignment.
What is your purpose?
500
Sedimentary rocks made of fragments of skeletons of once-living organisms.
What is limestone?
500
These rocks make up Earth's mantle.
What are ultramafic rocks?
500
He showed that life evolves even in the absence of changes in the physical environment.
Who is Darwin?