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Rocks
Weather
Space
Earths History
Other
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What type of rock contains banding, foliation and
distortion?
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Metamorphic
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What type of igneous rock is lighter in color and
lower in density?
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Felsic
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What sedimentary rock is clastic and made up of
0.0004 to 0.006?
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Siltstone
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What is the color and type of rock that forms
oceanic crust at mid-ocean ridges?
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dark colored and igneous or mafic
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What do mineral properties depend on?
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internal arrangement of atoms
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What drives all weather?
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Unequal heating
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What does it mean when isobars are close together?
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Fast winds
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What type of front moves faster?
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Cold fronts
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Precipitation, change in temperature, and wind
direction indicates what?
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The passing of a front
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What is a region of atmosphere with uniform
temperature and humidity?
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An air mass
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How many degrees per hour does Earth rotate?
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15 degrees
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What does a foucault pendelum indicate?
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Earths rotation around the sun
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In what season is Earth closest to the sun?
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Winter
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How many moon phases are there?
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Eight
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What kind of eclipse occurs when the full moon
moves into Earths shadow?
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Lunar eclipse
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In what period did the earliest birds evolve?
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Jurassic
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What type of trilobite existed during the
Devonian?
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Phacops
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What is the most reliable method to determine
whether two rock layers one hundred miles apart
are the same age?
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Both layers contain the same group of index
fossils
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What is supporting evidence of Pangaea?
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All the continents fit together like a puzzle
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A fossil shell contains 25 of its original
amount of carbon-14. Approximately when did the
animal that made the shell live?
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5,700 years ago
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What is the number one agent of erosion?
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Streams
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What always has 12 hours of daylight?
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The Equator
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What color and surface absorbs energy the best?
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Black and rough surfaces
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Which seismic wave travels faster?
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P waves
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What makes U shaped valleys?
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Glaciers