1. Extreme high pressure causes an _____ to occur in which temperatures increase with height.
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Mesosphere
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2. Wind erosion can cause __________, which can create shallow depressions called __________.
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Deflation; blowouts
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3. A ________ transforms a bay into a lagoon.
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Baymouth bar
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4. Deep ocean trenches are the surface manifestations of ________.
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Sinking of oceanic lithosphere into the mantle at a subduction zone
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5. Crevasses (deep fractures or cracks) form because ________.
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As the glacier moves over irregular topography, cracks can form anywhere in the glacier but they are called
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6. The distinction between joints and faults is that ________.
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Faults are fractures along which displacement has occurred; displacement does not occur along joints
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7. In urban areas, an increase in impervious surfaces will cause ________.
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An increase in runoff
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8. In the winter, when water use is low, precipitation ________ evapotranspiration
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Exceeds
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9. In terms of topography, the deepest soils are ________.
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On flat land
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10. Possibly the most cataclysmic event to occur in nature is ________.
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Supernova.
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11. The deep- and intermediate waters in the __________ ocean are the oldest in the world ocean.
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Atlantic
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12. The best modern technique for obtaining high resolution bathymetry of the seafloor is ________.
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Multibeam bathymetry
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13. It is thought that submarine canyons on the continental slope have been generated by ________
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Turbidity currents
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14. The columbia river plateau is an example of a ________.
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Flood basalt
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15. Pink quartz and smoky quartz are different colors. they will both have the same _____.
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Color streak.
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16. The famous destruction of the roman city of pompeii was produced by ________.
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A pyroclastic eruption from a composite volcano that buried the city in ash and smothered the people living there
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17. The energy behind the 1902 pyroclastic flow that destroyed st. pierre came from _________________.
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All of these choices are correct
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18. The energy exchanges between space, the atmosphere, and earths surface produce _____.
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Weather and climate.
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19. Jet streams play a major role in the global transfer of heat by directing ____.
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Cold air equatorward
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20. In the tropical wet climate, precipitation is mainly ________.
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Convective
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21. Orcas (killer whales) were determined to be ________________ of the otters.
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Symbionts
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22. One trigger of mass movements is the pores in sediments filling with _____.
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Water
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23. Permeable rock or sediment between the water table and the land surface represents a(n) ____.
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Unsaturated zone
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24. The evolution of the eohippus into the modern day horse is an example of _____.
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Character change
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25. In the formation of igneous rocks, large crystal size is closely related to ________.
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Slow cooling
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26. The colorado river has carved the grand canyon to a depth of __________ and length of __________.
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1 mile; 277 miles
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27. In the 1906 san francisco earthquake, much of the damage was due to fires because ________.
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Water lines were badly damage so that firemen could not put out the fires
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28. The dominant type of faulting in the great basin region is ______________.
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Normal faulting
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29. In terms of underground water, ________ is the most effective shaper of landforms.
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Solution
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30. In order for an embayment to qualify as an estuary, it must have both _____ and _____.
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Dilution; some degree of isolation
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31. In the df and dw climates, winter precipitation mainly originates from ________.
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Midlatitude cyclones
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32. In mountainous areas of western north america, north-facing slopes would be expected to _____.
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Support biological communities similar to those found at higher elevations on similar south-facing slopes
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33. Placer deposits form when _____.
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Heavy eroded particles settle out of moving water hot,
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34. Plants consume water during photosynthesis. they also release it to the atmosphere during ________.
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Transpiration
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35. The black hills of south dakota are a good example of a(n) ________.
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Dome.
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36. Inselbergs are associated with ________ landscapes.
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Loess
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37. The average number of storm-related deaths attributed to flooding from 1985 to 2014 was ________.
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83
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38. Relative to the celestial background, the moon moves ________.
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West to east
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39. Polar climates normally get ____________ amounts of precipitation.
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Little to medium
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40. The experimentation step of scientific inquiry involves _______.
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Analysis
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41. The downdraft in an ordinary cell thunderstorm is created mainly by ____.
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Evaporating raindrops that make the air cold and heavy.
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42. The deepest drill core into the earth's crust is approximately ________ kilometers deep.
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12
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43. P waves bend while traveling through earths core and then arrive at the shadow zone _____.
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Several minutes later than expected
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44. Overland flow can concentrate in small grooves called ________, which can enlarge to form ________.
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Rills; gullies
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45. One potential source of groundwater contamination would be ________.
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leaking septic tank.
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46. Precipitation of water on the land surface leads directly to ________.
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None of these
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47. Peridotite that undergoes partial melting will create a melt enriched in ________.
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Iron, magnesium, feldspars, and silica
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48. The blanket of sediment on the sea floor is ___________ toward the ocean margins.
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Very thin at the volcanic ridges and thickens
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49. The best time for an earthquake to occur to minimize loss of life is __________.
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During the night when most people are home and asleep
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50. The difference between swamps and marshes is mainly one of ________.
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Trees versus grassland
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51. The eon represented by abundant deposits of strata with shelly fossils is the ________.
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Phanerozoic.
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52. The dense atmosphere of venus is ________, causing most incoming solar radiation to be _________.
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Light in color; reflected
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53. Prairie soils (mollisols) are _______.
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Poor in organic matter
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54. The land area situated between the cool zone and the warm zone is termed the ____________ zone.
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Transition zone
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55. When a beta particle is emitted during radioactive decay, the atomic number of the isotope _____.
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Increases by 1
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56. Velocity and turbulence are _____ at the __________.
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Greatest; outside of a meander
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57. The nuclear accident at chernobyl was _______ than the accident at three mile island.
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More devastating
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58. The newest bonanza for recycling scarce and toxic metals is to recover them from ________.
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E-wastes
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59. The main component of the lower atmosphere by total volume is ________.
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Nitrogen
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60. The _______ experiences a temperature _____ primarily due to the absorption of ______.
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Thermosphere; increase; gamma rays and X-rays
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61. Symmetric ripples form when ________.
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Water deposits sediment in layers, but the direction of flow periodically changes
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62. Slow and steady movement on a fault that does not generate earthquakes is termed ________.
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Creep
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63. San francisco bay is a __________ estuary.
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Tectonic
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64. Researchers found _______________ decline in otter populations that were living in sheltered bays.
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19
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65. If a stream carries water only during and immediately after a rain, it is classified as ________.
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Ephemeral
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66. Bifacially flaked tools characterize the _______ stone tool industry.
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Acheulian
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67. Areas with heavy freshwater runoff and low evaporation will have ________ average salinity.
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Lower than
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68. An individual's _____ provides an example of developmental continuity.
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Personality
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69. A hoodoo with a cap rock of sandstone and shale below is an example of __________.
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Differential weathering
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70. ____________ was a famous japanese painter, known for his virtuosity in landscape images.
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Hokusai
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71. ________ is a vesicular rock with an andesitic or rhyolitic composition.
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Pumice
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72. A drowned river valley is also known as a ________ coast.
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Estuary
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73. A __________is a tentative, testable statement about the general nature of the phenomena observed.
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Hypothesis
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74. A floodplain forms where a stream _____.
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Side to side
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75. A fast-moving flow consisting of a mixture of water and volcaniclastic debris is termed a ________.
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Lahar
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76. A downwarped structure with a circular shape is a _____.
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Basin
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77. A dam constructed to produce tidal power does so by _____.
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Harnessing water flow to drive turbines and electric generators
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78. A crustal block which is down thrown with a steep fault scarp on either side is a ________.
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Graben
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79. A ________ volcano is a very large, gently sloping mound composed mainly of basaltic lava flows.
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Shield
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80. A ________ is an intrusive, igneous rock body that is tabular and concordant.
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Sill
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81. A ________ is a submarine volcano.
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Seamount
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82. A ______ is a volcano constructed of pyroclastic fragments ejected from a central vent.
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Cinder cone
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83. _____________ is primarily made up of basalt whereas __________ is primarily made up of granite.
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Oceanic crust;continental crust
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84. ___________ is igneous activity that occurs __________ plate margins.
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Intraplate volcanism; away from
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85. __________ eruptions are the most violent types of explosive eruptions.
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Plinian-type
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86. __________ destroyed the city of st. pierre, martinique in 1902.
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A pyroclastic flow
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87. ________ reacts readily with acids such as hydrochloric.
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Calcite
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88. ________ is the dominant lava erupted from volcanoes on hawaii and iceland.
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Basalt
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89. _____ is a coarse-grained sedimentary rock formed by the cementation of rounded gravel.
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Conglomerate
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90. ________ is the type of remote sensing imagery best suited to use at night.
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Thermal infrared
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91. A __________ is another name for winds that blow in an onshore direction during the day.
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Sea breeze
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92. A __________ is a vertical cylinder of rotating air that ranges from 310 km in diameter.
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Mesocyclone
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93. A hurricane has a maximum sustained surface wind speed of ______ km (74 mi) per hour or higher.
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119
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94. A fully-developed "wave cyclone" is seen ____ hours from its inception.
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12 - 24
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95. Air within the soil is usually highly saturated and rich in ________.
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Carbon dioxide
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96. A cool region underneath cloud cover will have _____ a region with no cloud cover.
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A higher pressure than That's
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97. ______________ can be used to date fossils in rocks to give an approximate age.
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Radiocarbon dating
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98. ________ solar system bodies are more likely to lose their atmospheres.
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Small, warm
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99. ________ is the science of taking reliable measurements from aerial photographs.
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Photogrammetry
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100. ________ involves movement on a zone of compressed air.
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A rock avalanche
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101. ________ is an eruption in which lava is extruded from narrow fractures in the crust.
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Fissure eruption
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102. ________ is a dark, fine-grained extrusive rock.
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Basalt
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103. Appearance of cirrus clouds indicates ______ air advection aloft.
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Warm
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104. Any winds, like the jet stream, occur because of _____.
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Differences in temperature
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105. Igneous rocks with an andesitic composition ________.
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Are denser than granitic compositional rocks
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106. If basaltic lava reaches the sea or a lake, it cools rapidly into ____________ lava.
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Pillow
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107. If all the particles in a detrital sedimentary rock are nearly the same size, it is __________.
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Very well-sorted
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108. Iceland rises above the atlantic ocean as a result of ________.
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A submarine hot spot located along a mid-ocean ridge
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109. Hydrolysis, oxidation, and hydration are all examples of ____.
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Chemical weathering
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110. Basaltic lavas ________.
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Do not flow as far from the vent as basaltic lavas do
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111. Barrier islands make ________ sites for real estate development because ________.
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Poor; they can be unstable, mobile, and overrun by storm surges.
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112. As compared to coarse-grained igneous rocks, fine-grained igneous rocks ________.
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Cool and solidify more quickly
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113. As an air mass rises, it generally experiences ________.
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A decrease in temperature because of adiabatic cooling
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114. As a result of partial melting, magma originates in __________.
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The mantle and crust
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115. Areas of geyser activity include _______.
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All of these are correct
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116. Impermeable layers such as clay that hinder or prevent water movement are called ________.
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Aquitards
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117. Highly impermeable layers such as compacted clay or shale are known as ________.
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BE. aquitard
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118. Aquatic nitrate pollution can result in _____.
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Algal bloom
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119. Any place where groundwater naturally flows out of earths surface is termed a(n) ________.
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Spring
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120. Analysis of stable carbon isotopes in ________ can provide information on ancient diet.
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Bones and teeth
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121. Alluvial fans occur where a _____ exits the _____ and enters the _____.
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Stream, mountains, basin
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122. A strength of _______ is that it reflects participants' everyday behavior.
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Naturalistic observation
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123. Thermoclines in the ocean are best developed at ________.
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Lower latitudes
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124. The urban heat island effect is caused by ________.
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Heat-generating buildings and dark, heat-absorbing surfaces
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125. The peeling of thin layers of stone off a large rock is ________.
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Exfoliation.
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126. The painting last judgment in the sistine chapel includes a ________.
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Self portrait of michelangelo as st Barthilomews flayed skin
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127. Windblown silt that blankets a landscape is called _____.
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Loess
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128. The warmest air can be found in the ________ air mass.
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CT
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129. Winds blow in curved loops because of earth's _____.
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Rotation
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130. When waves grow so tall that they topple over, they form ocean breakers called _____.
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Whitecaps
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131. When high-density seawater is added to low-density freshwater, ________.
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The denser seawater sinks below the freshwater
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132. Warm core rings and cold core rings are associated with __________.
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Western boundary currents
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133. Trenches are typically associated with ________.
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Transform continental margins
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134. There is no pycnocline in _______ latitude regions because _____________.
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High;the water column is uniformly cold and dense
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135. The subtropical gyres ___.
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Play a large role in climate
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136. The largest of the great ocean surface currents is the __________.
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West Wind Drift
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137. Ocean currents that move toward the poles are _____.
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Warm
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138. Non-astronomical factors affecting ocean tides include __________.
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All of the above are correct
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139. Most of our table salt comes from ________.
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Salt obtained by evaporating seawater in dry climates
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140. Within the sea floor, the rate of geothermal heat flow is greatest ________.
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Along mid-ocean ridges
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141. Within a single mountain range, ________.
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It is possible to find a variety of metamorphic rocks produced in distinct high, low, and intermediate grade rocks
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142. Whenever there is an active well, the water table will be drawn downward to a(n) ________.
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Cone of depression
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143. When magma crystallizes, ________ are formed.
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Intrusive igneous rocks
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144. When a solution becomes oversaturated, new solid particles are said to ________.
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Precipitate from the solution
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145. Visible quartz and potassium feldspar grains are the main constituents in a ________.
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Granite
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146. Under most of the earth's land surface, solid rock exists as a buried layer known as ________.
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Bedrock
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147. Two major sources of energy, coal and oil shale, are considered ________ sedimentary rocks.
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Organic
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148. The weathering of rocks in zion and bryce canyons takes place by ___.
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Chemical and physical weathering
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149. The viscosity of magma is lowered by __________.
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All of the choices are correct
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150. The toba eruption 74,000 years ago may have __________.
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Caused a great reduction in the worldwide human population
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151. The sinking of cold ocean lithosphere drives the motions of mantle convection through _____.
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Plate motion mechanisms
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152. The sierra nevada, california, and teton, wyoming, ranges are examples of ________.
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Fault blocks uplifted by late Tertiary to Quaternary normal faulting
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153. The sedimentary rocks breccia and conglomerate most commonly form in a ________ environment.
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Mountain stream
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154. The ring of fire is a narrow zone of composite cone volcanoes rimming the ________ ocean.
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Pacific
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155. The presence of ____ in _____ indicates low-grade metamorphism.
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chlorite; slate
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156. The most obvious evidence of a plate boundary where two plates move apart is(are) ________.
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Upwelling of hot material from the mantle
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157. The most famous and outspoken of the early proponents of continental drift was ______________.
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Plato
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158. The mixture of water and rubble that flows from the slope of a volcano is a _______.
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Lahar
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159. The melting point of a mineral generally _____ with increasing pressure (or depth).
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Increases.
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160. The location of most volcanoes closely correlates with __________________.
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Plate boundaries
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161. The largest layer (by volume) of earth, ____, is composed primarily of _____.
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The mantle; peridotite
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162. The greatest danger from pyroclastic flows is ________.
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Not significant because they move so slowly they can be avoided.
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163. The ________ ocean basin is rimmed by the most subduction zones.
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Pacific
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164. Spreading centers are an ideal location for volcanism because ______________.
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All of these choices are correct
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165. Slaty cleavage, schistosity, and compositional banding are all examples of ________.
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Foliation
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166. Shield volcanoes have ___ bases and ___ inclined slopes.
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Broad; gently
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167. Saltation of sand involves ____.
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Grains traveling short distances (approximately 1 m) in the air
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168. Reverse faults form in response to ______ forces.
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Compressive
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169. Oceanic lithosphere thickens away from the mid-ocean ridge primarily due to ________.
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The addition of new crust due to sedimentation
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170. Ocean-ocean convergence produces _____.
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Mainly volcanic mountains
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171. Normal faults are the result of rocks being subjected to ________ stress.
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Tensional stress.
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172. New york and london are on two separate plates so the distance between the cities is ________.
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Stationary
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173. Minerals are grouped into mineral classes primarily on a basis of ________.
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Chemistry, specifically the anions within the chemical formula
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174. Metamorphism, in broadest terms, involves ____________.
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Changes in mineralogy and texture in response to heat and stress
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175. Metamorphism may result from ________.
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Gneiss
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176. Mesa-and-scarp topography is most closely associated with ________.
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Erosion.
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177. Water vapor levels in earth's atmosphere ________.
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All of the above
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178. Vertical mixing and turbulence are most characteristic of the ________.
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Troposphere
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179. Tornadoes are ranked in terms of wind speed and related property damage using the ________ scale.
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Enhance fujita
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180. To the greeks, their land fell within the ________ zone in their early classification of climate.
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Temperate
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181. The western u.s. climate is different from the western european climate because ________.
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Western U.S. has mountains near the coast and Europe does not
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182. The tropical western pacific ocean regions experience ____ during strong enso events.
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Lower sea levels
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183. The skies in the dallol region are _____.
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Clear
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184. The radiative balance between incoming and outgoing energy is moderated by the _____.
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Climate
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185. The polar front jet stream blows ____.
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Directly from west to east
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186. The midlatitude westerlies blow out of the ______ flank of the subtropical anticyclones.
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Poleward
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187. The majority of the united states lies within a(n) ____ wind belt.
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Westerly
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188. The kppen system of climatic classification ________.
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Temperature and precipitation
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189. The kppen classification system for climate is widely used because _______.
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It uses easily obtained data, and the system is relatively unambiguous.
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190. The intensity of tropical cyclones is measured by meteorologists using the __________ scale.
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Saffir-Simpson
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191. The hottest places on earth are ________.
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Associated with a lack of clouds
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192. Summertime weather in northern california often consists of low clouds and fog due to ____.
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Cold coastal water
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193. Two animals are considered members of different species if they _____. see concept 24.1 (page 505)
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Cannot mate and produce viable, fertile offspring.
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194. The soil-forming factor which is said to make soil more than "just dirt" is the ________ factor.
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BIOLOGICAL
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195. Worldwide, the largest percentage of freshwater readily available to humans is stored in _______.
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Pore spaces between rocks and sediments
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196. When rocks are ________, several adjacent layers were deposited without interruption.
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Conformable.
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197. When reading a seismograph, _____ waves come first, then _____ waves, and, finally, _____ waves.
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Seismographs
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198. Well-sorted sediments typically have ____________ porosity compared to poorly sorted sediments.
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Greater
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199. Unsorted debris from ice sheets, after deposition, is known as ________.
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Till
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200. The trellis drainage pattern shown below develops ________.
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In areas of alternating weak and resistant bedrock
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201. The rate at which a parent atom creates daughter atoms is always _____.
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Constant and unique
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202. The radiometric date of a metamorphic rock most likely represents when the rock was _____.
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Heated during metamorphism
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203. The principle of ________ explains the occurrence of older rock within a newer igneous body.
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Inclusions.
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204. The most unreliable (variable) diagnostic property of minerals such as quartz is ________.
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Color
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205. The maximum extent of a glacier is marked by a ________.
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Terminal moraine
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206. The main difference between stream pools and ponds is that stream pools _______.
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Have an observable current
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207. The lowest elevation limiting stream erosion is called ________.
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Alluvium.
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208. The longer ribbon that can be formed by handling a moist soil, the lower the _____ content.
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Clay.
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209. The location of earthquake epicenters closely correlates with the __________________.
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Edges of the plates
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210. The lengthy ridges of till along each side of an alpine glacier are ________ moraines.
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Lateral
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211. Some continents contain large core areas of precambrian rocks called _____.
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Shields
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212. Mature tropical soils are generally noteworthy for their ________ color.
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Red.
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213. A(n) ________ is a type of unconformity with parallel beds above and below the erosional surface.
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Disconformity
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214. The setting of douard manets reclining nude figure of olympia is a(n) __________.
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Bordello of the Parisian demimonde.
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215. The sediment found in the mississippi river delta is an example of ________.
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Terrigenous sediment
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216. The rotational energy of the blades of a wind turbine ________.
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Drives a generator inside the nacelle compartment to produce electricity.
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217. The principal characteristic that differentiates temperate and tropical rainforests is __________.
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Latitude
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218. One limitation of wind power is that it ________.
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Is intermittent
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219. Of the ~4,000 known minerals, the vast majority ________.
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Are rare
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220. Of all the freshwater on the earth, approximately ________________ is trapped as ice.
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80%
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221. Nonnative species disrupt ecosystems by _______.
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Increasing biodiversity
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222. Most sediments that compose a delta are __________.
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Lithogenous
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223. Most of the pushing force driving plate motion is produced ________.
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At subduction zones.
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224. Most of the holy roman empire constitutes _____ today.
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Germany
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225. Most of the costs associated with using renewable resources are due to _______.
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Overuse of resources
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226. More solar radiation is absorbed by earths surface than by __________.
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The atmosphere.
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227. Minerals in geodes (see below) form spectacular euhedral crystals because ________.
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The crystals have abundant room to grow in their hollow surroundings
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228. Minerals found on the seabed at or near hydrothermal vents are mostly __________.
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Metal sufides
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229. Mineral x is scratched by a diamond. mineral x _____.
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Is softer than a diamond
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230. Mine tailings are __________.
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The remains of ore after most of the metals have been removed.
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231. Marble is a nonfoliated rock that forms when heat and pressure change limestone. marble _____.
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Is formed by evenly distributed pressure
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232. Manganese nodules are an example of ________ sediment.
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Hydrogenous sediments.
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233. Latent heat that is the energy source for many storms can be transported by ________.
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Water vapor
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234. Large rocks are transported by _____.
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Traction.
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235. Adults age 51 to 70 need _____ micrograms of vitamin d daily to prevent bone loss.
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15
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236. A mercator map is constructed by projecting the grid of the globe onto a(n) ________.
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Cylinder
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237. Deep sea trenches are important features for plate tectonic studies because ________.
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They are sites where the oceanic lithosphere is consumed into the mantle
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238. A south wind produces a _____ surface current in the northern hemisphere.
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Northwest
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239. A shoreline is a(n) ________, a common boundary where different parts of a system interact.
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Interface
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240. Conchoidal fractures are indicative of the mineral ________.
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Quartz
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241. Compressional stress on rock can cause strong and deep earthquakes, usually at _____.
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Reverse faults
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242. Compared to felsic lavas, mafic lavas have a ________.
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Lower viscosity
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243. A regular kitchen sponge has ________ porosity but ________ permeability.
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High; low
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244. A porphyritic rock contains both ________ and __________.
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Phenocrysts; groundmass
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245. A mineral is said to be ____, if after a long time it does not convert to a new mineral.
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Stable
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246. A migmatite is a mixed ___ rock.
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Metamorphic and igneous
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247. ______ is the predominant igneous rock of the continents.
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Granite
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248. Compared to traditional tillage, conservation tillage _____.
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Reduces topsoil erosion
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249. A temperature inversion is characterized by a(n) ______ of air temperature with altitude.
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Increase
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250. A relatively warm surface tends to ______ the overlying air.
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Destabilize
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251. A raindrop that freezes before reaching the ground is called ____.
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Sleet
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252. ________ have the most dynamic and changeable day-to-day weather on earth.
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Latitudes affected by fronts
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253. ________ can harvest the energy they need through photosynthesis or other processes.
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Autotrophs
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254. ________ are solid particles that serve as cores for the formation of ice crystals.
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Freezing Nuclei
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255. ________ are small-scale winds produced by a locally generated pressure gradient.
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Local winds
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256. A small island on the equator would most likely be classified ________.
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A f
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257. A rain-free base of an updraft is ________.
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All of these
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258. A monsoon climate is characterized by ________ summers and ________ winters.
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Wet; dry
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259. ________ climates display a large variation over small areas.
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Highland
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260. Fine-grained clays, silts and muds would always indicate a ____ environment.
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Low-energy
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261. Complete this analogy: sliding is to gravel as dissolution is to_____________.
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Ions
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262. Coarse infertile soil _____
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Is found near the base of mountains
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263. Clay has ____ porosity and ____ permeability.
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High, low
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264. A succession of ocean waves set in motion by a submarine earthquake is called _____.
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Tsunami
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265. A streamlined asymmetrical hill composed of till is called a _____.
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Drumlin
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266. A soil with a large percentage of clay would be ________ and ________.
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Porous, non-permeable
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267. A river's discharge is generally greatest _____.
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At its mouth
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268. A plant root presses against a rock, causing it to crack. this is an example of _____.
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Biological weathering
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269. ________ account(s) for the largest usage of groundwater in the united states.
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Agriculture and irrigation
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270. _____ were the dominant vertebrate life form during the paleozoic era.
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Amphibians
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271. When sea ice forms in high latitudes, the sea ice has ________.
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Lower salinity than the ocean waters it forms from
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272. The accumulation of sediment found along the shore of a lake or ocean is called a _____.
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Beach
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273. A __________ uses seismometers to measure shear waves (s waves) caused by earthquakes.
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Geologist
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274. Rugged mountains cut off ________ china from korea.
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Northeast
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275. Global inequality is apparent in _____.
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All of these choices are true
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276. The so called climax vegetation refers to the ____ in an area
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Original vegetation
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277. Ensuring clear directions and needed resources before work begins refers to ___________.
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Feedforward control
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278. The term ________ refers to entities cooperating across national boundaries.
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Internationalization
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279. Sediment laid down by glacial meltwater is called _____.
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Stratified drift
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280. The writer tom wolfe dubbed the 1970s the ____________ decade.
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Me
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281. Earth's current atmosphere supports animal life because __________.
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Plant photosynthesis provides oxygen that is critical for aerobic respiration.
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282. Detrital sedimentary rocks are classified and named principally on the basis of ________.
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Grain size.
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283. Currently, most geologists ________.
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Agree that continental drift occurs due to mechanisms at work in the ocean basins and upper mantle
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284. Deserts are arid; steppes are ________.
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Semiarid
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285. Desert, tundra, grassland, and chaparral are examples of __________ found in north america.
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Ecosystems
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286. Desert varnish consists of ________.
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Dust deposits affected by microorganisms
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287. Desert regions occur __________, and always have a(n) __________ climate zone adjacent to them.
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On every continent; steppe
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288. Descending into earths interior, temperature, as well as pressure on rock, _____.
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Increases
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289. Drumlins are formed in __________, and their tapered ends point __________.
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Till plains; downstream.
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290. Dredging a stream or river is an example of ________.
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Channelization
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291. Evidence that glaciers once covered an area might include ________.
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Till and striations
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292. Evidence that earths core has a high iron content comes from the study of _____.
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Meteorites
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293. Evidence of paleomagnetism can be found in ________.
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All of the above are correct.
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294. Evidence about ancient climates indicates that _____.
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Glacial ice once covered much of what is now India and Australia
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295. Elastic deformation before an earthquake is like _______, whereas rupture is like__________.
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Stretching a rubber band; breaking a rubber band.
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296. El nio received its name because of its association with ________.
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The Christmastime Christ child
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297. Earthquakes occur most frequently near ________ margins.
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Active
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298. Earthquakes are most frequent near coastlines that are termed ____.
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Active margins.
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299. Earthquake prediction is ________.
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Somewhat good for very long term statistical analyses based on ideas like mapping seismic gaps; however, is not yet developed for short term predictions
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300. Earth's core, mantle, and crust formed during the ________.
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Hadean
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301. Dynamothermal (regional) metamorphism occurs when ________.
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Rock becomes buried deeply during continental collision and mountain building
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302. During the last ice age, a ________ glacier covered much of the northern united states.
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Continental
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303. During the holocene artifacts like _______ began to appear.
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Ceramics.
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304. During the day along the coast, the wind tends to blow toward the ________ because ________.
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Land; land heats more rapidly than water
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305. Deposition of dissolved minerals in caverns leaves deposits such as the icicle-like ________.
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Stalactites.
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306. A(n) ________ in eustatic sea level is ultimately the result of a ________ event.
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Increase; global cooling
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307. ___________________ energy is replenished over short time scales or is perpetually available.
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Renewable
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308. Areas with relatively scarce sand and constantly shifting winds will develop ________ dunes.
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Star
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309. By far the most common elements in the universe and in our solar system are ________.
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Hydrogen and helium
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310. The slippage of an earthquake starts ________.
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Megathrust; convergent
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311. The ________ forms the relatively cool, brittle plates of plate tectonics.
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Lithosphere
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312. Glaciers _____.
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Form when snow stays in the same place for a long time
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313. When coral expel their own nutrient-supplying algae, a phenomena called ________ often follows.
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Bleaching
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314. Coarse-grained granite is most similar in mineral composition to fine-grained ________.
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Rhyolite
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315. Talus aprons represent accumulations of ________.
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Angular debris at the base of a hill
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316. Sinking air that diverges when it reaches earth's surface is closely associated with ________.
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Anticyclones
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317. All of the following cause mechanical weathering except ____.
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Carbonic acid
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318. Seasonal variations in co2 recorded at mauna loa observatory are related to ________.
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Vegetation
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319. When a fault is expressed at the surface, it is called a __________.
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Fault scarp
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320. Water that has trickled down into a joint in a rock can freeze, expand, and _____.
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Widen the crack and hastening the rock's disintegration
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321. Tsunamis are more destructive than wind-driven storm waves primarily because ________.
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Tsunamis have longer wavelengths and thus larger volumes of water are involved
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322. The 1943 eruption of paricutin in mexico was characterized by ________.
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Mudflows and explosive ash eruptions
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323. Tensional stress is the dominant force at ___.
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The Basin and Range Province
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324. Stability prevails when the environmental lapse rate is ________.
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Less than the wet adiabatic rate
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325. Short-term predictions of earthquake behavior ____________.
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Have been largely unreliable
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326. Rhyolitic lavas ________.
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Do not flow as far from the vent as basaltic lavas do
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327. If the velocity of a stream decreases, competence __________ and sediment is _____.
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Decreases, deposited
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328. Humans first realized that the earth was spherical ________.
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During the time of Aristotle in ancient Greece
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329. Glaciation can take about ________ years, whereas deglaciation requires about ________ years.
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100,000; 10,000
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330. Coal forms from ______ that accumulates in a(n) ______ depositional environment.
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Plant material/anoxic
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331. Buried erosional surfaces between parallel sedimentary strata are termed ________.
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Disconformities
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332. As a rule, economic depletion exists when _____ of the resource has been extracted.
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80%
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333. An apron-shaped pile of alluvium that forms at the mouth of a canyon is known as a(n) ________.
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Alluvial fan
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334. Amongst all seismic waves, surface waves __________.
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Have the slowest velocity
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335. All of the following statements concerning dry lands are true except ________.
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Wind is the dominant agent of erosion and sediment transport
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336. All of the following are possible steps of scientific investigation except for ________.
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Assumption of conclusions without prior experimentation or observation
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337. According to the plate tectonics model, the rigid ________ moves over top of the weaker ________.
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Lithosphere, asthenosphere
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338. A rainshadow desert forms ________.
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On the leeward side of a mountain
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339. ________ is the study and reconstruction of past climates through the use of proxy data.
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Paleoclimatology
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340. ________ has the same mineral composition as andesite.
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Diorite
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341. An unknown igneous rock has very small crystals. the rock _____.
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Cooled quickly
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342. Downcutting is usually most prominent along the ________ part of a stream valley.
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Upper
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343. Easterly waves travel from ________ in the ________ belt.
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East to west; trade wind
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344. Earth's polar regions (above 60 latitude) are classified as deserts because __________.
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Cold, dry sinking air in the polar high regions produces little precipitation
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345. Density ________ depth in the earth's crust.
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Increases with.
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346. Currently, life expectancy in north america is about ______ years for men and ______ for women.
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75; 80.
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347. During a cold occlusion, the cold front forces the warm front to ____.
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Rise off the ground.
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348. The gps was developed by the u.s. department of ______
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GPS
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349. The main river serving the hinterland of shanghai is the __________ river.
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Chang-Yangzi
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350. In a monocline, one of the limbs of the fold ________.
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Is horizontal
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351. Any stream may lengthen its valley by ________ and delta formation.
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Headward erosion
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352. An important tool in understanding the actual numerical dates of past geologic events is ________.
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Radioactivity
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353. A major obstacle the first land plants had to overcome was ________.
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Staying upright despite gravity and wind on land
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354. A shaman was believed to be ____ between humans, animals, and spirits.
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A bridge
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355. A sedimentary rock formed by the compaction and lithification of mud is known as a ____.
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Shale
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356. When air at the surface diverges, airflow above must _____.
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Converge
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357. Small foreshocks that precede a major earthquake can occur _____.
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From the day of the major earthquake to days aer the earthquake
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358. There are ________ statutory probate court judges.
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18
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359. Temperature decreases most rapidly with depth at ___________ latitudes
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Low
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360. Shi'ite muslims constitute the great majority of the population of _____________.
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Iran
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361. Sedimentary deposits built into relatively regular layers are known as ________.
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Strata
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362. Salt wedging is of slight consequence in ________.
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Humid regions
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363. Granular disintegration is most closely associated with ________.
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Frost wedging
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364. Ferromagnesian minerals are those that contain a great deal of ________.
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Magnesium and Iron
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365. The wet adiabatic rate of cooling is less than the dry rate because _____.
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Air is unsaturated
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366. The strike-slip san andreas fault in california is a _______ fault more than 1,300 km long.
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Right-lateral
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367. A more ______ design can reduce earthquake damage to buildings
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Flexible
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368. The tidal bulge produced on earth by the moon is causing the moon to slowly _____.
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Move further from Earth
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369. The human body does not constantly lose water through _______.
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Digestion
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370. The term for a star that is explosively ejecting gases from its surface is a(n) ________.
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Nova or supernova
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371. The angular size of the moon in our sky is __________ the angular size of the sun in our sky.
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Almost exactly the same as
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372. Ice sheets can be ________.
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Several kilometers thick
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373. Currents are more intense on the _______ side of the north pacific and north atlantic oceans.
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Western
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374. The typical trend in a rising plume of subduction-zone magma is to increase the ____________.
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All of the choices are correct
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375. The surface area of earth is composed of ____ ocean and _____ landmass.
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71; 29
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376. The area most closely associated with d climates is ________.
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Canada
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377. A central peak, such as a volcanic mountain, generally produces a ________ drainage pattern.
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Radial
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378. A ________ stream has an interwoven network of small channels separated by much loose debris.
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Braided
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379. A composition of reflections across two parallel lines is a _____
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Translation
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380. A cyclone is ________.
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The term for circulation around any low-pressure center, no matter how large or intense it is
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381. A ________ forms when a block of ice is buried in drift and subsequently melts, creating a pit.
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Kettle
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382. A ____ usually indicates clearing weather or fair weather.
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Steadily rising
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383. A joint can be distinguished from a fault in that ________.
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There is no movement along joints
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384. A huge boulder resting on a completely different type of bedrock in glacial zones is a(n) ________.
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Erratic
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385. A glacier's downstream end ________.
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Is in the zone of wastage
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386. A fold shaped like an elongate trough is a(n) ________.
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Syncline
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387. A deglaciated cirque often contains a basin in which a(n) ________ can be found.
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Tarn
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388. A body of rock affected by compressive stress will likely undergo ________.
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Shortening
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389. A ________ is a crescent-shaped dune whose tips point downwind.
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Barchan
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390. "this rock is fifteen million years old," is an example of ________.
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A numerical date
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391. __________ rocks are often the source of metal ores such as gold, silver, and copper.
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Metamorphic
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392. __________ in the sandy layer causes the ground to subside after sand volcanoes form.
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Tighter packing
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393. ________ is when a rock "snaps back" to its original stress-free form after an earthquake.
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Elastic rebound
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394. ________ is the area at the headwaters of a stream where most of the sediment is derived.
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Sediment Production
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395. ________ is one of the two major flow mechanisms in a glacier.
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Basal slip
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396. ________ is fine silt generated by glaciers that can be carried for long distances by the wind.
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Loess
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397. _____ is the principle that explains why materials uplift to a certain elevation.
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Isostasy
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398. ________ streams flow year-round, fed by snowmelt, rainfall, groundwater, or a combination thereof.
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Perennial
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399. ____ is a layer of organic sediment.
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Lignite
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400. A __________ is defined as a chain of glacial lakes where each lake flows into the next.
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Pater noster lake
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401. ____ make up a majority of the ocean floor worldwide.
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Abyssal plains
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402. ________ is a distinguishing feature of thunderstorms.
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An anvil top
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403. Hurricanes derive their energy from _______ pressure zones in the ______ latitudes.
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Low; tropical
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404. Depositional features created by wind include ____________ and _______________.
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Loess; dunes
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405. Data collected by the drilling ship glomar challenger confirmed that _____.
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None of the ocean floor is more than about 180 million years old
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406. Between muncie and anderson, the drainage area of the white river increases by _________.
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165 square miles
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407. As shown in the video, the regular version of the item _____ and the diet version _____.
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Sank; floated
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408. Areas downwind of the ocean experience __________.
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All of these
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409. An identifying characteristic of convergent boundaries is ________.
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Deep,linear trenches in the seafloor
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410. An estuary is _______.
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An ecotone
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411. Abyssal plains are most likely found _________________.
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Along Passive Plate Margins.
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412. Hygroscopic nuclei ______ water molecules.
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Attract
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413. Hurricanes dissipate when ____.
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They move over colder water
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414. Central asia and western north america experience dryness because of ________.
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Lack of moist air masses
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415. Catastrophic subsidence into sinkholes tends to occur more often in areas underlain by __________.
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Acidic freshwater flowing through limestone
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416. Carbon dioxide and ________ are the most important heat absorbing gases in the lower atmosphere.
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Water vapor
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417. At earth's surface, warm temperatures are associated with ________.
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Low pressure
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418. Adjusting barometer readings to sea level removes the influence of ______ on air pressure.
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Station elevation
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419. Continental volcanic arcs are associated with the _____ plate boundary.
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Convergent oceanic-continental
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420. Continental crust is typically 35 km thick, but may be up to ________ thick under mountain ranges.
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70 km
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421. Tanning beds have a higher proportion of ___________ radiation than does natural sunlight.
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UVA
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422. In a climatological sense, dryness is a function of both annual rainfall and ________.
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Evaporation
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423. If accumulation exceeds ablation, then __________.
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The glacial ice will flow downhill and the glacial front will move downhill
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424. Horizontal divergence occurs to the ______ of an upper-air trough.
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East
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425. Hadley cells explain why _____.
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The tropics are much wetter than other regions
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426. Hadley cells are located in ______ latitudes of both hemispheres.
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Tropical
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427. Because of the greenhouse effect, cloudy nights tend to be __________ than clear nights.
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Warmer
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428. As one approaches the equator, the angle of incidence ____ and the atmosphere attenuation ______.
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Increases; decreases
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429. Ancient temperatures are best extrapolated by comparing isotopes of _____ gas.
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Oxygen
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430. An individual raindrop consists of approximately ________ moisture droplets.
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1 million
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431. An example of a geostrophic wind is ________.
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Jet stream
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432. An altimeter is an adaptation of the ________.
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Aneroid barometer
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433. Af and am climates form a discontinuous belt astride the ________.
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Equator
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434. Advection is a(n) ________ wind movement.
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Horizontal
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435. Along coastlines, sand dunes will most often begin to form and grow when ________.
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Perennial grasses become established
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436. Adaptive melanism describes selection for _______.
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Darker pigmentation
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437. Using the doppler effect, astronomers can determine a stars _____.
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Movement toward or away from Earth
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438. Under typical conditions, glaciers flow ________.
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At a rate between 2 meters (6.5 feet) and 800 meters (2600 feet) per year.
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439. The highest magnitude earthquakes typically occur _______.
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Near subduction zones
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440. The area of crust directly above a rising mantle plume is a(n) ________.
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Hot spot.
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441. Stalactites and stalagmites are examples of _____.
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Chemical sedimentary rock
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442. Soil that forms on unconsolidated deposits is called _____.
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Transported soil
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443. The two main religious beliefs in southeast asia are hinduism and _____.
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Hinduism
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444. The main reason for the occurrence of subtropical deserts around the world is ________.
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Locations of anticyclones
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445. Rock through which ground water cannot run or flow is a(n) ________.
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Aquiclude
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446. The single most descriptive word that can be applied to tropical wet climates is ________.
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Monotonous
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447. The map of world average annual temperature range shows ________ to have the greatest range.
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Eastern Siberia
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448. The major global wind and pressure systems ________.
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Shift with the seasons
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449. The main goal of paleoclimatology is to understand the climate of the past in order to ________.
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Assess the current and potential future climate in the context of natural climate variability
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450. The greatest one-day range of temperature was recorded in a bwh climate in ________.
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Algeria
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451. The first nearly correct measurement of the earth's circumference was made by ________.
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Eratosthenes.
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452. On large scale maps, equivalence and conformity can be ________.
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Sizes
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453. Most of the radiation incident upon the earth falls within the ________ part of the spectrum.
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Shortwave
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454. Most atolls began as ________ around volcanic islands which later subsided beneath the sea.
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Longshore currents
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455. Midlatitude deserts experience a ________ maximum in precipitation.
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Summer
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456. Mediterranean climates experience dry summers because of ________.
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The position of subtropical high pressure
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457. Lakes are common in areas which have been recently ________.
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Glaciated
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458. The largest geographic feature on the surface of planet earth is __________.
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Pacific Ocean.
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459. The movement (track along the ground) of middle latitude cyclones is determined by ________.
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The jet stream.
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460. Scientists have tried to modify hurricanes by ____.
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Seeding the hurricanes with silver iodide
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461. A wet monsoon is associated with high rainfall totals and is caused by ________.
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A seasonal reversal of winds
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462. When neither air mass displaces the adjacent one, their boundary is called a(n) ________ front.
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Stationary
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463. The segment of the atmosphere which blends into interplanetary space is called the ________.
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Exosphere
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464. The seasonal shift of the intertropical convergence is greatest ________.
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Over the continents.
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465. The reason winds exist is ________.
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The unequal heating of the Earth system
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466. The present atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is approximately 396 ________.
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Parts per million.
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467. The poles are most closely associated with ________.
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High Pressure
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468. The middle latitudes are dominated by wind flows which are mainly from the ________.
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West
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469. The intertropical convergence zone may be found as far as ________ north of the equator in july.
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25°
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470. The influence on climate of carbon dioxide is mainly due to its ability to absorb ________.
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Infrared radiation
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471. Most severe weather is generated in areas that are _____.
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Warm and moist
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472. Low ____ on a constant height chart corresponds to low ____ on a constant pressure chart.
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Pressures, heights
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473. Shallow subduction zone earthquakes occur __________________.
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All of these are correct
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474. Wegener's early proposal of continental drift was not taken seriously because of his ________.
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Failure to provide a plausible cause
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475. Tsunami events at a coastline __________.
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Can start with a drawdown or rising of the sea
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476. The process that causes dissolution of limestone bedrock in a stream is ______.
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Corrosion
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477. The himalayas were formed by crumpling of plate edges in a ________ zone.
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Convergent.
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478. The focus of the 2001 inquiry of the un general assembly into coltan mining in congo was ________.
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Environmental and social justice for the Congolese
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479. The ________ is an example of a modern convergent boundary where two continents meet.
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Northerly movement of India relative to Eurasia
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480. Most rock outcrops (about 75% of the total) are ________.
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Sedimentary
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481. Most of the world's ________ line(s) up along plate tectonic boundaries.
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Earthquakes, very young oceanic crust, and volcanoes
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482. Most marine organisms produce the mineral substance ________, which will later become limestone.
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CaCO3.
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483. A(n) ________ fault has little or no vertical movements of the two blocks.
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Strike slip
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484. On the floodplain map, muncie central high school has ________ annual chance of flooding.
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Between .2% and 1%
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485. Fronts are located ________.
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At the edges of air masses
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486. A metamorphic rock forms from directed pressure. the rock is _____.
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Foliated
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487. Shear causes horizontal movement along a fault plane in a/n _______ fault.
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Reverse
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488. Four laws or principles are involved with the study of stratigraphy. they are _____.
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All of these
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489. Geography as a discipline links the _________________ with the _____________________.
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Physical sciences; social sciences
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490. Compared to places at lower elevations, highland climates are usually cooler and ________.
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Wetter
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491. Coastal alaska and norway are in the ________ group of climates.
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492. Climate models indicate that ________ is(are) one of the strongest indications of global warming.
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Loss of sea ice in the Arctic
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493. Circulation in the troposphere is mainly a(n) ________ system.
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Closed
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494. Chinook winds, land-sea breezes and santa ana winds are examples of ________ circulations.
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Mesoscale
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495. According to newton's 1st law, the law of inertia, if you hit a baseball with a bat it will _____.
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Fly in a straight line unless an outside force changes its course
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496. The single most important erosional agent on earth is _____.
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Running water
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497. The study of spectroscopy was begun by ________.
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Sir Isaac Newton
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498. The promotion of companies sustainably harvested rainforest products is intended to _______.
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Give the company a competitive advantage
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499. The major difference between floods in humid regions and in dry regions is ________.
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In dry regions, flooding is a very fast
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500. The atmosphere has the greatest ________ of the earth's hydrologic compartments.
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Turnover rate and smallest water volume
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501. The atmosphere acquires most of its energy from ________.
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The earths surface
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502. The atacama desert in chile is the ______ area in the world.
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Driest
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503. The area of the ocean that experiences the lowest density water occurs in the ________.
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Deep Zone
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504. The air pressure on a rainy day is usually ________ air pressure on a sunny day.
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Lower than
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505. Sand dunes are formed by ____________ (deflation/deposition).
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Deposition
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506. If you are on a beach, you might recognize that a tsunami is approaching because ________.
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The water will withdraw from the beach farther than usual
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507. If ice accumulation equals the amount of ice lost, the glacier will ________.
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Become stationary
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508. Groundwater tends to flow through bodies of rock or sediment that ________.
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Have a high permeability
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509. Groundwater may be ________.
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All of the above statements are correct
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510. Greenhouse gases act to ________ temperatures by ________ thermal infrared radiation.
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Increase; trapping
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511. Flood stage for the white river at anderson is ________.
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10 feet
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512. Confined aquifers are found _____.
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Between two layers of impermeable soil
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513. Color is not very helpful in mineral identification because _____.
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Property different minerals can have the same color
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514. Below the thermocline the temperature of ocean water ____________
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Remains fairly constant
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515. Basalt is pushed into the crust by subduction. it will most likely become _____.
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Metamorphic rock
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516. Barrier islands form as the direct result of _____.
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Deposition
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517. Approximately ________ cycles of cooling and warming occurred during the last ice age.
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20
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518. An interglacial period is characterized by ____.
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Periods of warmer,stable climate
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519. All months have average temperatures below freezing in the ________ climatic type.
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ET
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520. Alaska's aleutian islands formed as part of a ________ along a ________ boundary.
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Volcanic island arc; convergent
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521. A vast plain of rolling hills are actually folds of _____.
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Anticlines and synclines.
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522. A material that undergoes tensional stress tends to _____.
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Stretch
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523. A layer of sandstone is uplifted. this rock will most likely _____.
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Weather into new sedimentary rock
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524. ________ have the highest velocities.
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Primary waves
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525. ________ are long, linear scratch marks carved onto bedrock by glacial abrasion.
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Glacial striations
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526. The loess deposited in many parts of the midwest ________.
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Was once glacial outwash deposits
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527. Laminar flow, where water moves in approximately straight-line paths, characterizes ________.
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Slow moving streams.
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528. Oceanic ridges represent ________ percent of the earth's surface.
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20.
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529. Most rain at middle latitudes is produced by the ice crystal process. this is because ____.
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Clouds in these regions can extend into regions where air temperatures are below freezing
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530. The north end of earth's axis is tilted 23.5 degrees toward the sun on ________.
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June 21 or 22
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531. The rocky mountains were created when _________.
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Eastward tectonic movement compressed old crystalline rocks against younger sedimentary layers.
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532. Tsunami typically have _________________________ relative to wind-blown waves.
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Long periods and long wavelengths
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533. Tsunami arrive as a series of several waves separated by periods typically in the _________ range..
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10-60 minute
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534. Natural occurring biological hazards to people are ________.
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Viruses and Salmonella.
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535. Wind tends to move from _____ to _____ pressure areas.
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High, low
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536. Tornadic thunderstorms that form ahead of an advancing cold front most often travel from ____.
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Southwest to northeast
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537. The thermocline or area of rapid temperature change in the ocean is important because ________.
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It forms a barrier to many types of marine life that can only exist within certain temperature ranges
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538. The sahara and australian deserts (among others) are associated with the ________.
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Subtropical high
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539. The production of dew is mainly the result of ____.
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Radiational cooling.
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540. The polar high is more pronounced over ________ because ________.
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The Antarctic; greater landmass
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541. The most latent heat would be released in a ____ parcel of ____ saturated air.
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Rising, warm
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542. The minimum daily temperature typically occurs at ____.
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Sunrise
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543. The main impact of ozone on life on the earth's surface is to ________.
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Reduce ultraviolet solar radtiation
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544. The leading edge of a thunderstorm's cold outflowing air is known as a ____.
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Gust front.
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545. The general area where a tornado is likely to form can often be predicted ____.
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3
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546. The ______ of the life cycle of a thunderstorm cell is characterized by mostly updrafts.
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Dissipating stage
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547. Subduction of oceanic lithosphere at the trenches can act like a bulldozer to produce ________.
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An accretionary wedge
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548. Smaller grid spacing ____ the resolution of computer forecasting models.
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Can increase
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549. Salinity in the ocean is highest in regions where ________ is high and ________ is low.
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Evaporation precipitation
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550. One half of the atmosphere lies below the elevation of ________.
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6 kilometers
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551. On the eastern side of the rocky mountains, chinook winds are enhanced when ____.
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Clouds form and precipitation falls on the windward side of the mountains.
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552. On a calm, cold day, the sensible temperature is often ____ than the thermometer reading.
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Higher
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553. Of those below, the coldest, driest ones are termed ________.
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Continental polar
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554. Most precipitation that falls in middle latitudes originates in ______ clouds.
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Cold
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555. Meteorologists refer to an imaginary volume of air enclosed in a thin elastic cover as a ________.
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Parcel
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556. Light or moderate continuous precipitation is most often associated with ____ clouds.
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Nimbostratus
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557. A wind from the ______ would be called a southerly wind.
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South
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558. The ________ is not a portion of earth's interior.
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Magnetosphere
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559. Subsurface mining is used extensively in the extraction of ________.
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Coal, phosphate, diamonds, gold
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560. The most prominent of all depositional landscapes is the ________.
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Floodplain.
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561. With the passage of time, all talus migrates ________.
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Downslope
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562. Violent causes of death from volcanic eruptions include _______________.
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All of these
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563. This cobble shows prominent scratches because ________.
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It was scraped against other rocks in a glacier
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564. The term "exfoliation dome" is best applied to ________.
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Correct Answer:
Yosemite National Park
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565. The single most important force in shaping coastal topography is the ________.
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Correct Answer:
Waves.
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566. The sierra nevada batholith formed during subduction of the _____ plate beneath north america.
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Correct Answer:
Pacific
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567. The rate of groundwater flow per unit area through a body of rock or sediment depends ________.
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Correct Answer:
On the slope of the water table and the permeability of the rock or sediment
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568. The quantity of offset that occurs along a fault is termed ____________.
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Displacement
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569. The plate boundaries which are ________ are likely to make island arcs.
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Convergent between oceanic plates
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570. The organic matter in humus is made of ____. a. dead worms c. roots b. stems d. all of the above
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All of the above
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571. The oldest basalts on the ocean floor are about ________ years old.
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200 million.
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572. The most advanced stage of tropical reef formation is exhibited in ________.
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A fringing reef
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573. The main "ingredient" in the formation of coral is ________.
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Calcium carbonate
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574. The lower limits of a blowout are controlled by ______.
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The local water table
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575. The gros ventre slide is evident today by __________.
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A scar, runout area, and landslide debris filling the valley.
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576. The greatest amount of material transported by a stream is carried in its ________.
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Suspended load.
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577. Streams that exhibit flow only during wet periods are called ________.
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Intermittent streams
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578. Slab pull occurs because subducting slabs are ________.
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Cooler,and therefore less dense,than surrounding asthenosphere
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579. Rocks can melt without changing temperature when the pressure exerted on them is _____.
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Increased
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580. Rhyolite, andesite, basalt, and obsidian are all rocks that are classified as ________.
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Igneous and extrusive
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581. Multiple plutons can coalesce (merge) to form a(n) ________.
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Batholith
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582. Most processes which shape topography are ________.
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Very slow
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583. Most orogenesis occurs along ________ plate boundaries.
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Convergent
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584. Most magma is generated in earth's upper mantle by ________ of solid rock.
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Partial melting.
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585. Most dry lands lie between ________ degrees north and south of the equator.
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Correct Answer:
20 and 30
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586. Micas like muscovite and biotite break along flat planes because _____.
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Correct Answer:
Micas have sheet silicate structure
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587. Metamorphic rocks with a non-foliated texture show metamorphic change that involves ____.
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Growth in the size of the mineral grains
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588. Massive, rapid mass wasting typically occurs in _____.
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Correct Answer:
Geologically young mountains
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589. Mass wasting, a process that often occurs between weathering and erosion, involves ________.
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The transport of material due to gravity
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590. Limestone and marble weather faster than granite because ________.
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Limestone and marble can be dissolved by weak acids in rain
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591. Landforms formed by molten materials are ____ mountains.
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Volcanic Mountains
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592. A(n) ________ is similar in appearance to a sinkhole of a karst area.
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Kettle
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593. A(n) ________ is an irregular, usually thin till layer laid down by a retreating glacier.
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Terminal moraine
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594. The presence of a hot spring on the surface means ________.
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Correct Answer:
Heated rocks or magma are underneath
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595. Old faithful, a ________ in yellowstone national park, erupts steam and hot water.
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Correct Answer:
Geyser.
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596. A midlatitude anticyclone ________.
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Correct Answer:
Has a front in its center
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597. The ________ waves advance in a backward-rotating, elliptical motion.
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Rayleigh
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598. Crystal habit is the shape that a mineral develops by the repetition of __________.
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The basic unit cell of a mineral
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599. Gravity is the main force impelling movement in all of the following except ________.
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Hydrolysis
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600. A stream's ________ is (are) chemically altered and transported.
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Dissolved load
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601. A stream is said to be a losing stream when ________.
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The channel bottom is above the local water table
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602. A major economic deposit associated with the cretaceous period is ________.
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Correct Answer:
Coal
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603. A major difference between coal and oil/gas is ________.
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Correct Answer:
Coal forms in swamps and oil/gas form in marine environments
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604. ________ are the most common structural features of rocks.
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Joints
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605. A server-side image map uses ____ scripts to make the map work.
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Correct Answer:
CGI
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606. To recycle nutrients, an ecosystem must have, at a minimum, _____.
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Producers and decomposers
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607. The former portuguese colony that is now a special administrative region (sar) is ________.
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Macau
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608. The figure above shows that sedimentary rocks are changed to sediment by ____.
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Weathering and erosion
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609. Deposition of glacial rock flour from blowing winds is responsible for ________.
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Loess deposits
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610. Anna freud's pioneering work was ____.
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Correct Answer:
On child analysis
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611. The full-choir gospel style was started by ___________ in the early 1930s.
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Thomas A. Dorsey
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612. Dave grohl fronted the group ________________ after the death of kurt cobain.
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Foo Fighters
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613. Chuck berry performed his famous _________ during his guitar solos.
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Duck walk
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614. ________ are sites of upwelling of magma from the mantle independent of plate boundaries.
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Transform faults
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615. Active mountain belts are most likely to be found ________.
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Correct Answer:
Along the margins of continents
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616. Beneath a blanket of sediments, oceanic crust is primarily composed of ________.
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Basalt
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617. Compared to typical oceanic lithosphere, the thickness of continental lithosphere is________.
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...
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618. ________ is the basic force that moves or accelerates soil and regolith down a slope.
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Gravity
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619. ________ occurs when a rock is gradually dissolved by flowing water.
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Corrosion
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620. ______ is a feature of a divergent plate boundary. choose all that apply.
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An oceanic ridge
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621. When air __________, it is compressed and warmed.
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Sinks
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622. The lithosphere of earth will not flow because it ________.
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Is too cool
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623. The bottom or downward tip of a crevasse marks the ________.
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Top of the internal deformation and flowage zone
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624. The ________ is an elevational point that divides an entire continent into large drainage basins.
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Continental divide
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625. Sinkholes and karst topography are a clear indication that ________.
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The groundwater is moving through a limestone and forming caves that periodically collapse
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626. Consult the figure below. compared with low-grade metamorphic rocks, high-grade rocks ________.
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Are produced at greater temperatures and pressures
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627. An igneous rock with a ______ texture solidified deep within earth.
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Phaneritic
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628. A terrane is __________.
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A mass of rock that formed elsewhere and was added to a continent
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629. A monocline is a type of a(n) ____
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Fold
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630. __________ naturally concentrate(s) the less common elements of earths crust.
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Hydrothermal solutions
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631. _____ are composed of flood basalts.
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Oceanic plateaus
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632. Generally, hurricanes are ________.
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All of the above
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633. __________ faults combine elements of strike-slip and dip-slip motions.
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Normal
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634. ________ rocks always originate at the surface of the solid earth.
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Sedimentary
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635. All of the following conditions help preserve organisms as fossils except ____.
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Hard parts
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636. As compared to mafic igneous rocks, all felsic igneous rocks ________.
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Solidify at lower temperatures
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637. Using high pressure liquids to extract oil from rocks such as oil shale is known as ________.
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Hydraulic fracturing
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638. The u.s. integrated ocean observing system (ioos) is best described as _______.
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All of the above
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639. The greenhouse effect involves warming of earth's surface and the ________.
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Troposphere
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640. An echo sounder operates by measuring the time required for a ________.
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Sound pulse to travel from a ship to the seafloor and back
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641. An undeformed sedimentary layer is ______ than the layer above and ______ than the layer below.
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Older, younger
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642. Mantle convection is a circulation of the heat emitted by the earth's _____.
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Core
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643. An artesian well must tap into ______.
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A confined aquifer
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644. Warm fronts and stationary fronts can bring _____.
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Light precipitation
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645. Populations lacking any environmental resistance tend to increase by ________.
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Exponential growth
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646. Preserved animal tracks are called ______ fossils.
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Trace
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647. Sediment production occurs primarily in ________ part of a river system.
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The head waters
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648. A(n) ________ is created by a group of cirques eroding into a mountain peak.
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Horn
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649. Pumping vast quantities of water locally ________.
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Lowers the local water table, forming a cone-shaped depression
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650. The "horse latitudes" are zones of minimal winds which are associated with the ________ system.
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Subtropical High Pressure
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651. Waves begin to feel bottom when water depth is _____.
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Equal to half of the wavelength
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652. The shallowest portions of ocean found along the margins of continents are the ____________.
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Continental rises
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653. The black sand beaches in hawaii are comprised of ________.
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Fragments of basaltic volcanic rock
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654. The ________ lies at the base of the continental slope.
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Continental rise
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655. Surface ocean currents are driven primarily by ________ and modified by ________.
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Wind; the Coriolis effect and land
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656. Currents tend to move in large ____ patterns in the northern hemisphere.
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Clockwise
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657. A very large volcano with gentle slopes is a ________ , which is comprised of ________.
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Shield volcano...lava flows
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658. Slow flowing, more viscous basaltic lava commonly has a rough, blocky texture called ________.
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Aa
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659. Grains become rounded primarily during ____________.
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Transportation
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660. Decompression melting is responsible for generating magma at ________ plate boundaries.
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Divergent
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661. A ________ marks the end of one episode of sedimentation and the beginning of another.
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Bedding plane
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662. Unlike the lithosphere, the asthenosphere ________.
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Is able to flow over long periods of time
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663. The zone of contact metamorphism (the aureole), ____.
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Is commonly rather narrow, from 1 to 100 meters wide
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664. The textural term for a basaltic lava flow that has a smooth, ropy appearance is ________.
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Pahoehoe
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665. The most complex, fully-featured collaboration tool that is popular in business today is _________.
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Microsoft SharePoint
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666. The common rock produced by the metamorphism of limestone is ________.
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Marble
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667. Shale subjected specifically to high-grade metamorphism will change into ____.
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Gneiss
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668. Orogenesis (mountain building) leads to the production of ________.
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Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock
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669. Oceanic lithosphere subducts (sinks into the asthenosphere) because ________.
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Old oceanic lithosphere is more dense that the asthenosphere
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670. Large, thick-crusted, nonvolcanic mountain belts, like the himalayas, are associated with ________.
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Continent-continent collisions
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671. Island arcs and andean type mountains are both examples of mountains formed by ________.
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Subduction
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672. In order to cover such large expanses of seafloor, shield volcanoes erupt ________ lava.
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Basaltic
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673. In 1980, ________ was the first cascade range volcano to erupt since mt. lassen in 1915-16.
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Mt. St. Helens
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674. Important volatiles in magmas include ________.
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Water and carbon dioxide
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675. Gravel would most likely exist in the ________ of a river.
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Bed load
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676. Biochemical limestones are dominated by carbonate mud and fragments of ________.
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Calcitic and aragonitic skeletons of marine invertebrates
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677. All other factors equal, if a body of magma becomes more felsic, its viscosity will ________.
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Increase
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678. ________ is a biochemical sedimentary rock that often forms in carbonate reefs.
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Limestone
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679. ________ describes the range in particle sizes in a detrital sedimentary rock.
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Sorting
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680. The typical path of a winter mid-latitude cyclone is ____.
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Eastward or northeastward
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681. The diameter of a hurricane is typically ______ that of a mature extratropical cyclone.
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Less than
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682. Cumuliform clouds _________ form along or ahead of a cold front.
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Typically
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683. Midlatitude cyclones and anticyclones function as migratory features in the ________.
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Westerlies
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684. The thermosphere has _____ air pressure than the mesosphere. more less equal
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Less
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685. A continental tropical air mass formed over the southwest u.s. this area is called its _____.
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Source region
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686. We are likely to have our highest relative humidity ________.
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About sunrise
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687. Water purification, nutrient cycling, and plant pollination are all examples of earth's __________.
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Ecosystem services
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688. Water is unique because no other substance occurs in ________.
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All three states of matter
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689. The conservation ethic suggests that __________.
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Resources should be used from natural areas in a responsible way such that they are not depleted
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690. The atmosphere and oceans are constantly moving. their activity is due primarily to _____.
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The sun's energy
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691. Since 1980, arctic sea ice has ____.
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Decreased in volume and surface area
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692. Showery precipitation is most closely associated with ________.
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Unstable air
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693. Irregular heating of the air can produce thermals, which are ________.
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Pockets of warm air that rise
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694. In summer, at the same pressure, maritime tropical air is ______ continental tropical air.
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Less dense than
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695. In an average year, more people die from ____ than from any other natural disaster.
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Heat
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696. Generally, the greatest lake-effect snowfall in the great lakes region occurs on the ____ shores.
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Eastern
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697. Generally, the average speed of a warm front ____ the average speed of a cold front.
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Is slower than
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698. For precipitation to form, cloud droplets must grow in volume by roughly _____.
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One million times
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699. Drylines typically occur in the ____ united states.
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Southern Great Plains of the
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700. Developing low pressure areas generally have ____ air near the surface and ____ air aloft.
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Converging, diverging
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701. Condensation nuclei, tiny particles of matter in the air, are important because ________.
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They provide a surface for water molecules to form on
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702. Clouds can decrease the range of daily temperatures because ________.
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The clouds reflect solar radiation back into space during the day
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703. Capital letters in air mass names reflect the ________ characteristics of the air mass
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Temperature
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704. Calm, fair weather is most likely to result from a(n) ________.
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Midlatitude anticyclone
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705. After the center of a mature wave cyclone passes, you should expect ________.
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Barometric pressure to rise
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706. A rain shadow is situated downwind from the ______ slopes of a high mountain barrier.
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Leeward
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707. A lapse rate of ______ celsius degrees per 1000 meters is stable for unsaturated air parcels.
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All of these are correct
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708. ________ clouds form sheets or layers that cover much of the sky.
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Stratus
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709. Showery weather and cumuliform clouds point to the presence of ________.
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Atmospheric instability
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710. Maritime air masses form _____.
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Over water
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711. High clouds that form delicate veil-like patches or extended wispy fibers are termed ________.
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Cirrus
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712. Sympatric speciation typically occurs through __________ and __________.
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Polyploidy in plants; habitat differentiation in animals
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713. The shape of a(n) ________ can be likened to an amphitheater.
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Cirque
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714. In a river valley, mass-wasting processes can ______. choose all that apply.
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Make the valley walls less steep, make the valley wider
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715. Complex organisms with gills and lungs were major life forms that existed in the_____________.
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Paleozoic era
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716. As a rule, groundwater always flows from areas of ________.
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Greater hydraulic head to those of lesser hydraulic head
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717. A ______ may tell a geologist when, where, and how an organism lived.
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Fossil
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718. Riparian foliage _______.
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Provides shade and shelter
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719. Water plays an important role in sculpting the landscape of continents because ________.
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Water is a major cause of erosion on land
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720. The oceanic ridge system is the ________ topographic feature on earth.
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Longest
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721. Magma flows easily when it is low in ______, a material made of oxygen and silicon.
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Silica
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722. Deep ocean trenches are surficial evidence for ____________.
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Sinking of oceanic lithosphere into the mantle at a subduction zone
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723. Deep-oceanic trenches are most abundant around the rim of the ________ ocean basin.
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Pacific
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724. Wind speed may be roughly indicated by ________.
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Spacing of isobars on a weather map
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725. When looking up at the clouds, you can usually make out different shapes and figures with _____.
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Cumulus clouds
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726. Subtropical anticyclones are ______-core circulation systems.
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Warm
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727. Earthquakes with a richter magnitude of less than ______ are generally not felt by humans.
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2.0
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728. A scale of one inch equals one mile is ________ in a representative fraction.
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1:63,360
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729. A travel-time graph can be used to find the _____.
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Distance to the epicenter of an earthquake
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730. Complete this statement: divergence is to moving away as convergence is to _______.
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Moving toward
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731. The _____ store(s) more carbon than the atmosphere.
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Oceans
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732. The distance between corresponding points on a waves cycle is called its ____.
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Wavelength
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733. Radioactive isotopes are used to determine the ____________ (absolute/relative) age of rocks.
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Absolute
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734. Regardless of their size, most rocks are made up of __________.
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Minerals
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735. The primary agent of contact metamorphism is _____
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Heat
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736. Low air pressure usually means bad weather. this is because _____.
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Warm air rises and condenses, usually forming clouds and precipitation
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737. Surrounding a comet's nucleus is the broad, glowing area called the ________.
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Coma
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738. A(n) ________ is the generic term for any map line which joins points of equal value.
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Isoline
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739. The continental crust of the earth is _____________ while the oceanic crust is _____________.
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Thicker and lighter than the oceanic crust; similar in composition to the mantle
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740. Tantalum from african coltan is used primarily for the manufacture of ________.
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Electronics: cell phones, computers, digital cameras
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741. A sandbar that completely crosses a bay, sealing it off from the open ocean is a ________.
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Non of these
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742. Surface ocean currents ___.
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All of these
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743. Wind-driven surface currents move at a speed that is ________ the average driving wind speed.
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One one-hundredth
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744. When geostrophic flow is achieved, the ______ force is balanced by the _______ force.
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Coriolis, gravitational
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745. On an upper-air chart, the wind aloft tends to blow ____.
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Parallel to the isobars or contours
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746. A ________ drainage pattern is common in the appalachian valley and ridge province.
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Trellis
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747. A fiord is a ________.
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A stream valley, deepened by glacial erosion, that floods as sea level rises
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748. Generally speaking, deserts are located in places where air masses are usually _____.
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Descending
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749. Streams erode downward until they reach ________.
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Their base level
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750. Seismic gaps are places where scientists think that ________.
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Faults are storing elastic strain
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751. The entire european region is one giant _____________ extending off the eurasian continent.
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Peninsula
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752. The rate at which a rock in a streambed dissolves would not be increased by _____.
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Reducing the rock’s exposure to water
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753. The goldilocks scenario suggests that ________.
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We are very fortunate to be in the right place in the universe and to have had the right condition to develop and sustain life
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754. The ______ of a seismograph moves.
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Paper
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755. In rodinia, a well-documented precambrian supercontinent, ________.
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North America was located near the center of the supercontinent
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756. In an overturned fold, the beds have rotated ________.
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More than 90 degrees
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757. Cirrostratus clouds form in the ________ regions of the troposphere.
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Highest
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758. By the year 2030, it is possible that glacier national park in montana will not have any ________.
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Glaciers
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759. A major difference between catastrophism and uniformitarianism is ________.
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Catastrophism supports rapid changes on the earth and a young age of Earth while Uniformitarianism requires long times for changes to be significant and thus a very old earth
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760. The early earth of the hadean eon _____.
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Had no volcanoes
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761. Ocean water is 96.5% water by mass. most of the remainder consists of __________.
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Ions from dissolved salts
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762. A zone of high atmospheric pressure results when there is relatively __________ air aloft.
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Cool, dry
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763. A(n) ________ the condition that exists when data are isolated in separated information systems.
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Information Silos
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764. During the warm phase of enso, a belt of much warmer than normal water appears along the_____.
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Equator in the eastern Pacific
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765. Because of wave refraction, erosion along an irregular coastline is ________.
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Greatest in heradlands (points of land projected out toward the sea)
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766. ______ is (are) partially blocked by ozone in the stratosphere.
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Ultraviolet radiation
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767. All spheres of earth are interrelated or interdependent. this means _____.
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They all depend on each other to function; an impact to one sphere usually affects another
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768. Along a coastline, most hurricane damage is caused by ____.
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Storm surge
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769. Neighboring sedimentary facies generally show __________.
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A gradational relationship
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770. Continental coastlines that occur within the interior of a tectonic plate are called ____________.
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Passive margins
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771. ________ are erosional features produced by valley/alpine glaciers.
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Cirques
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772. The side of a mountain sheltered from prevailing winds is the ________.
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Leeward
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773. The bergeron-findeisen precipitation process takes place within ______ clouds.
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Cold
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774. The milankovitch cycles may have changed earth's climate in the past. these cycles involve _____.
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Earth's tilt and orbit
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775. A fixed volcanic hot spot on earth tends to produce a _______ on a moving plate.
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Series of volcanic peaks
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776. ________ commonly serves as a protolith in the formation of slate.
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Limestone
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777. A stream's turbulence is strongly influenced by its ________.
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Velocity
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778. "scale" relates ________ to ________.
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Map distance, Earth distance
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779. The larger of the jovian moons ________.
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Are larger than Mercury but smaller than Mars
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780. Cumulus clouds that appear above isolated mountain peaks are often the result of ____.
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Valley breezes
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781. Xerophytes are plants of the ________ region.
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Desert
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782. The stream gradient of most rivers ________.
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Is greater near the source than near the mouth
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783. Any change in the air's ________ content could alter temperatures in the lower atmosphere.
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Carbon dioxide
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784. The basic unit of pressure mapped on weather maps is ________.
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Millibars
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785. The american states with the highest average annual incidence of fog are located on ________.
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The Pacific coast
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786. The "eye" of the hurricane is a zone characterized by ________.
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Sinking air
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787. Storms along ________ are more severe than storms along ________.
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Cold fronts; warm fronts because uplift is more rapid along cold fronts
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788. The cold water observed along the northern california coast in summer is due primarily to ____.
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Upwelling
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789. Surface pressure systems tend to move ____ the wind at the 500-mb level.
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In the same direction as
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790. All of the following are evidence supporting the theory of plate tectonics except for ________.
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Changes in the Moon's orbit due to shifting plates
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791. ________ make up the suspended loads of most rivers and streams.
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Silt and clay-sized, detrital grains
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792. Sediments derived primarily from the products of weathering on the continents are called _____.
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Terrigenous sediment
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793. Minerals that crystallize directly from seawater are examples of ________.
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Hydrogenous sediment
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794. Sedimentary rocks with ripple marks suggest that the rocks formed _____.
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The rock formed along a beach or stream bed.
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795. Wind-blown sand deposits would most likely be __________ and __________.
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Very well-sorted, well-rounded
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796. Ultramafic rocks contain __________ and are commonly found in __________.
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Olivine; mantle
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797. The modern-day red sea is explained by plate tectonics theory because it is ________.
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A rift zone that may eventually open into a major ocean if Arabia and
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798. The mineral assemblage within metamorphic rock is ________.
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Dependent on both the mineral content of the protolith and the temperature and pressure of formation
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799. Quartz exhibits __________.
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Conchoidal fracture
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800. Pull-apart rift zones are generally associated with a ________ plate boundary.
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Divergent
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801. Lavas erupting from composite cones are generally ________-rich, making them very viscous.
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Silica.
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802. Cinder cones ________.
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Are usually less than 300 meters (1000 feet) high
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803. At a subduction zone, the overriding plate ________.
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May be composed of either oceanic or continental lithosphere
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804. A smooth grain shaped like a cigar is __________ and shows __________.
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Well-rounded, low sphericity.
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805. ________ is thought to form by partial melting and in situ crystallization of the melted portion.
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Migmatite
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806. ________ are pyroclastic materials that are larger than ash, but smaller than blocks or bombs.
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Lapilli
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807. The variation in shape and function of the forelimb in tetrapods is a result of _____.
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Different environments leading to the evolution of different types of limbs
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808. The separation of soil into distinct layers is _______.
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Horizonation
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809. The opening of stomata is thought to involve _____.
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An increase in the solute concentration of the guard cells.
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810. The development of ____ factored in the development of complex organisms.
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All of the above.
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811. Shubin and daeschler specifically traveled to ellesmere island to hunt for fossils because _____.
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The rocks on the island were of the right age to contain transitional vertebrate fossils
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812. Permafrost soil (gelisol) is _______.
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Resistant to erosion
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813. As shown by the south dakota example, artesian systems __________.
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Are able to transmit water great distances from recharge to discharge areas
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814. Aridisols are soils characteristically found in _______.
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Deserts
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815. Aquifers are _______.
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Aeration zone
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816. Animal life in the paleozoic era included all of the following except ____.
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Humans
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817. ________ is the volume of voids or open space in a rock or unconsolidated material
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Porosity
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818. ________ are characteristics found in all good aquifers.
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High porosity and high permeability
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819. The timing of __________ and continental breakup strongly correlate.
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Flood basalt formation
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820. ______ can be used to detect hidden faults.
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Sem
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821. Braque was inspired by _____________________________.
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Fauvist artists and Picasso's Le Demoiselles D'Avignon
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822. The primary difference between breccia and conglomerate is that conglomerate ________.
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Possesses more rounded grains than breccia
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823. All of the following are possible indicators that creep is occurring except for ________.
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An extremely thick soil profile
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824. The average composition of the oceanic crust is thought to approximate that of ________.
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Basalt
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825. The average composition of the continental crust most closely approximates that of ________.
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Granite
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826. ________ is/are an example of ductile deformation.
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Folds
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827. ________ describes the total sediment load transported by a stream.
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Capacity.
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828. Mestizos are persons who are of mixed ____________ heritage.
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European and African
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829. Shield volcanoes are ________ than composite volcanoes.
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Wider.
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830. The coalescence-collision process applies to ________ .
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Warm clouds
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831. Middle america's largest country today in terms of both area and population is ___________.
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Mexico
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832. As you approach a steep uphill grade in the mountains,_______.
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Increase your speed.
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833. A "dynamic low" is produced by ________.
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The strong descent of air
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834. It is expected that us forests will _______.
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Not be able to meet long term timber needs
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835. The movement of sand parallel to the shore ________.
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Achieved by longshore currentsis created by waves approaching at an oblique anglemay create spits.
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836. All of the following are factors affecting mass wasting except for ________.
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Geological age.
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837. ________ is a sedimentary rock formed mechanically from fine silt and clay particles.
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Shale
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838. The ________ period was a time of major extinctions, including 75 percent of amphibian families.
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Permian
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839. The ________ period is sometimes called the "golden age of trilobites."
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Cambrian
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840. The ________ is/are found in the equatorial zone.
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Intertropical convergence zone
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841. The annual cycle of seasons is primarily caused by __________________.
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The tilt of Earth's axis relative to its orbit around the Sun
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842. The least common shape for a galaxy is ______. irregular elliptical cluster spiral spherical
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Spiral
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843. ________ are formed when groundwater dissolves cavities into limestone.
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Caverns
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844. The dominant economic activity in venezuela's lake maracaibo lowland is ___________.
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Large-scale cattle herding.
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845. A prominent feature of the mid-atlantic ridge is a very deep linear valley known as a(n) ________.
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Rift valley
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846. The so-called "winds of commerce" are the ________ winds.
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Trade
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847. The most common and widespread form of precipitation is ________.
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Rain
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848. The desert would be the obvious zone of origin of a(n) ________ air mass.
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CT.
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849. Rising and falling of air over large areas is most properly known as ________ and ________.
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850. Most regions of the globe receive a ________ maximum of rainfall.
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Summer
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851. In the auditory system, _____ is the tone saturation, or the perceptual quality, of a sound.
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Timbre
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852. In the atmosphere, liquid water collects around minute particles called ________.
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Condensation nuclei
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853. Atmospheric ________ is the ultimate cause of weather.
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Instability
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854. An air-pressure altimeter is actually a(n) ______ barometer.
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Aneroid
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855. The former, late paleozoic supercontinent is known as __________.
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Pangaea
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856. At the start of the paleozoic, north america ________.
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Had no plants or animals
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857. Sedimentary rocks comprise approximately ________ percent of earth's outermost 10 miles.
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5
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858. Hurricanes generally are ________.
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Intense convective (thunderstorm) activity and strong cyclonic circulation
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859. The aleutian islands occur at a ________
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Convergent boundary on a volcanic arc above a northward-subducting Pacific plate
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860. The addition of ________ influences a mineral's color.
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Trace elements
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861. The binding of h+ ions to soil particles _____.
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Displaces mineral cations
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862. Studies of temperatures during the cenozoic era suggest that temperatures have _______ over time.
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Temperatures have fluctuated, sometimes greatly, over time
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863. Climates where evaporation exceeds precipitation are called ________ climates.
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Dry
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864. "whitecaps" form when _____________________.
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Wave steepness reaches a ratio of 1:7
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865. A surface low pressure center is generally associated with ____ on an upper-air isobaric chart.
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A trough to its west
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866. Terrigenous sediments originate from __________.
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Weathering of rocks on land
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867. The movement of water within the surf zone that parallels the shore is termed ________.
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Longshore current
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868. Short-range forecasts tends to ________ longer-range forecasts.
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Be more accurate than
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869. ________ is a strong, parallel alignment of different mineral bands in a metamorphic rock.
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Foliation
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870. ________ cement produces bright-red and yellow colors in some sandstone.
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Iron oxide
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871. On the average, ________ fronts move the fastest of all fronts.
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Stationary
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872. A flat, bench-like surface cut in rock along a coast is a ________.
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Wave-cut platform
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873. The region of air between the cold and warm fronts of an open wave is known as the ____.
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Warm sector
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874. The largest snowflakes would probably be observed in ____ air whose temperature is ____ freezing.
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Moist; near.
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875. One would expect a cp air mass to be ____.
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Cold and dry
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876. Local winds are caused by either topographic effects or by variations in _____.
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Local wind
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877. Cold air moving over a warmer lake surface will result in a(n) ________ type of fog.
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Evaporation
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878. Atmospheric shortwaves usually move ____ at a speed that is ____ than longwaves.
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West to east; faster
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879. Among cloud types, those that occur at the highest altitudes are the ________.
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Cirrus
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880. Above the influence of friction, most winds follow a(n) ________ course.
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Geostrophic
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881. A santa ana (or chinook or foehn) wind is a ________.
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Very dry, warm wind flowing down a mountain slope
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882. A horst is ________.
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An uplifted block bounded by two normal faults
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883. When mantle peridotite partially melts beneath an oceanic ridge, ________ magma is produced.
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Basaltic or mafic
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884. Two common metamorphic rocks that typically lack foliation are ________ and ________.
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Quartzite and marble
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885. The slowest and least perceptible form of mass wasting is ________.
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Creep.
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886. The most common oxidation effect in the lithosphere is ________.
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Rusting.
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887. The dense core of earth is thought to consist predominantly of ________.
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Iron
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888. During wet weather or times when snow is melting, sometimes the downhill toe of a slump ________.
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Becomes an earthflow.
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889. A(n) __________ acts as a conduit that brings heated water to the surface.
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Fault
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890. The ________ river has the largest discharge of any in the world.
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Mississippi
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891. The ________ earthquake was accompanied by extensive fire damage.
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San Francisco, 1906
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892. The tropical rain-forest climate receives most of its rainfall as a result of ________.
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Convectional uplift
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893. The term drift ________.
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Means any sediments of glacial origin
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894. The ocean plays a key role in the __________.
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All of the above
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895. The ocean is ___________ a major reservoir in biogeochemical cycles operating on earth.
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Typically
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896. The measure of a soil's capacity to hold water and air is called ________.
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Porosity
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897. The mass extinction at the end of the mesozoic era was caused by ______.
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A meteor or asteroid colliding with Earth
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898. The largest pool of carbon in the carbon cycle is ________.
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Sedimentary rock.
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899. The intertropical convergence zone (itcz) is a region where the ____.
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Northeast trades meet the southeast trades
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900. The gulf stream affects the climate of _____.
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Florida
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901. The greatest day-to-day and seasonal contrasts of climate are found in the ________ climates.
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Middle latitude
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902. The fog banks that occur in the atacama desert are formed from ________.
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Cold currents that cause temperatures to reach the dew point
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903. The fluid with the highest osmolarity is _____.
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Seawater in a tidal pool
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904. The first multicellular eukaryotic organisms to use the oxygen on earth were _____.
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Green algae
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905. The faster the wind speed, the ________.
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Faster the coriolis acceleration and wind speed
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906. The atmosphere that we are now breathing is the ___ atmosphere the earth has had.
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3rd
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907. The absence of __________ in the primitive atmosphere was essential to the origin of life on earth.
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O2
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908. Soil forms in _______, which together make up the soil profile.
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Layers
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909. Ozone is found mainly in the ________.
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Stratosphere
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910. One step in the production of hydroelectric power involves _____.
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Tides that pour through a barrier dam
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911. One drainage basin is separated from a neighboring drainage basin by a ________.
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Divide
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912. Mt. st. helens in the u. s. and mt. fujiyama in japan are examples of ________.
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Composite volcanos
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913. Mt. kilimanjaro and mt. kenya are ________ that occur along the east african rift.
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Volcanoes
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914. Manganese nodules are an example of ________.
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Hydrogenous sediments
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915. In the ocean, winds determine _____.
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The ocean-current patterns
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916. In the northern hemisphere, winds associated with a high pressure system blow ________.
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Clockwise and outward from the center
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917. In the northern hemisphere, warm currents tend to flow from the ____________.
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South
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918. In subduction, _____.
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The less dense plate slides over the denser plate
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919. In soils with distinct soil horizons, the bottom zone is the _____.
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Parent material
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920. In a surface cyclone in the southern hemisphere, winds spiral ________.
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Clockwise and inward
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921. Groundwater is the largest reservoir of ________.
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Freshwater that is readily available to humans
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922. Granite is _____.
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An extrusive igneous rock
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923. Gold is opaque and reflective. it has a _____.
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Metallic luster
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924. Gold has a shiny, metallic _____.
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Luster
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925. Gneiss is a foliated metamorphic rock. it was formed from _____.
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Directed pressure
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926. Fifty percent of the gases making up the atmosphere are found below ________.
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5.6 kilometers
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927. During _____, loose sediment becomes sedimentary rock.
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Lithification
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928. Desert streams are characterized by ________.
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Decreasing discharge downstream
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929. Contour plowing, conservation plowing and crop rotation are ways to __________ soil.
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Conserve
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930. Classes of map projections are based on the __________.
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Shape of the projection surface
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931. Calcium bicarbonate produced in the chemical weathering process of carbonation ________.
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Is very soluble
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932. An igneous rock that cools rapidly is likely to have ________ crystals.
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Small
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933. A mineral is classified as an ore as long as ____.
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It s profitable and useful
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934. A line connecting points with equal precipitation is known as an ________.
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Isohyet
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935. A large area of granitic intrusive igneous rocks is called a ____,
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Batholith
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936. ____ influences surface current formation and _____ influences deep-water circulation.
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Wind; thermohaline circulation
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937. When the temperature of a lava flow drops, viscosity ____, and silica content ____.
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Lower, high
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938. Volcanoes _____.
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Contains lava
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939. Flowering plants first appeared during the _____.
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Mesozoic
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940. Groundwater flows from __________.
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High to low pressure areas
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941. Foliated metamorphic rocks possess ________.
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A planar fabric consisting of mineral grains in preferred orientations or preferred patterns of association (banding)
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942. Feldspar has a mohs hardness of 6. feldspar _____.
Answer
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Can't be scrat
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943. Igneous rocks that form ____ the surface are intrusive.
Answer
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Below
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944. Environmental science is a __________.
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Systematic approach in learning about the environment
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945. Transform plate boundaries account for approximately ________ of all plate boundaries.
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40%
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946. The western coasts of continents in the subtropical zones are in ________ precipitation zones.
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Arid
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947. The surface mixed zone is characterized by ________.
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Nearly constant temperatures to a depth of about 300 meters
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948. The seasons by the ocean are _____ than inland areas.
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Less extreme
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949. The rock cycle _____.
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Changes and recycles Earth's rocks
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950. The rock and mineral fragments in soil come from rock that has been ____.
Answer
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Weathered
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951. The result of a horizontal cold air intrusion into a warmer air zone produces a(n) ________.
Answer
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Advection inversion
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952. The ozone layer is located in the _____.
Answer
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Stratosphere
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953. The most common cements are _____ and ____.
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Calcite; quartz
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954. The mid-ocean ridges are elevated above the surrounding sea floor because ________.
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Ridge rocks are hot and therefore of relatively low density
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955. The lithosphere lies directly above the ________.
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Asthenosphere
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956. The koppen system of climatic classification ________.
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Uses human comfort to determine climate boundaries
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957. The hottest layer of the earth is the _____.
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Inner core
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958. The greenhouse effect on venus is due to ________ in its atmosphere.
Answer
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CO2
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959. The elevation of the water table ____.
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May rise during rainy periods and sink during droughts
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960. The dead sea contains saltwater. most of its water leaves through _____.
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Evaporation
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961. The building blocks of a habitat consist of _____ factors.
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Environmental
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962. The _______________ contains the asthenosphere and the lower mantle.
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Mantle
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963. The ________ suggests that speciation occurs in brief spurts.
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Punctuated equilibrium model
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964. The ______ determines the chemical and physical properties of an atom.
Answer
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Number of protons
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965. Some of the sedimentary rock called ______ is made from ancient coral reefs buried by sediments.
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Limestone
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966. Soils, forests, and minerals are among earth's _____ resources.
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Renewable
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967. Sinking air exerts a downward force to form ____ regions.
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High-pressure
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968. Sediments in sedimentary rocks are often ____
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Held together with natural cements
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969. Sedimentary rocks form because of all of the following except ____.
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Sediments forming from solution
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970. Sedimentary rocks are useful as records of past time because of _____.
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Their layered structure
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971. Sedimentary rock _____
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Usually forms horizontal layers
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972. Research has identified the cause of plate tectonics to be ________.
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Convection
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973. Radiometric dating _____.
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Allows us to indirectly date fossils up to billions of years old based on minerals in surrounding volcanic strata
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974. Oceanic island arcs are similar to continental volcanic arcs in that ________.
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Both are formed by subduction
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975. New crust is being generated ____.
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At the East African Rift Valley
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976. Neritic sediments are found on the ____.
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Deep-ocean floor
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977. Most magma on earth is produced at ___ plate boundaries.
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Divergent
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978. Most magma forms from _____.
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The partial melting of solid rock in the crust or upper mantle
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979. Most limestone is ________ mechanical surface weathering.
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Resistant to
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980. Most icelandic eruptions are __________.
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Peaceful fissure eruptions
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981. Little is known about much of Earth's early history because ____.
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All of these
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982. Liquefaction occurs when seismic waves cause __________.
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Water to be injected into sediment causing the grains to lose cohesion and behave like a fluid
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983. In terms of remote sensing, geographers ________.
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Should not stop using maps and field study
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984. Lignite and bituminous coal are ____ rocks
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Metamorphic
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985. The plate tectonic theory can best be described as _____.
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Earth's natural process by which its lithospheric plates slowly move about because of movement in the asthenosphere
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986. Short term earthquake prediction research has focused on ________.
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Looking for precursors such as changes in topography, animal behavior, foreshocks, radon emission, etc that might signal an imminent earthquake
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987. The common source of pressure during compaction of sediments is ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
The weight of the sediments deposited above the compacting sediments
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988. Heavy elements like pb (lead) and u (uranium) were generated ________.
Answer
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By humans in nuclear reactors
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989. Gypsum, which is widely used in plaster and wallboard, is a member of the ________ group.
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Correct Answer:
Sulfate
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990. Low latitude dry climates are found primarily ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Near the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
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991. Deserts occur primarily in the africa, arabia, and australia because of ________.
Answer
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Sinking air currents
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992. Compaction would probably be most significant as a lithification process for ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Shale
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993. A mt air mass is likely to be ________ than a ct air mass because the mt air mass ________.
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Wetter; forms over the ocean
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994. Deep-ocean and near-bottom currents are strongest along the __________ sides of ocean basins.
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Western
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995. Breakwaters, sea walls, and groins are all examples of ________.
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Hard stabilization
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996. Between a river and its floodplain, you might find ________.
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Natural levees
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997. Excessive groundwater withdrawals can cause ________.
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The water table drops or declines in elevation
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998. Downcutting (also known as rejuvenation) of a stream may be due to ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Uplift of land
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999. An unconfined water table is the ________.
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Boundary between the aerated zone above and saturated zone below
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1000. Ruby and sapphire are red and blue forms of the mineral ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Corrundum
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1001. Most granitic batholiths are generated ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
As intrusions beneath composite volcanos along convergent plate margins
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1002. Coal beds originate in ________.
Answer
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Freshwater coastal swamps and bogs
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1003. Clay minerals are light silicates that form ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
From chemical weathering of igneous rocks
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1004. Breccia, a rock with angular particles, is likely to have traveled ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
None of these
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1005. The ________ is weaker and less rigid than the overlying lithosphere.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Asthenosphere.
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1006. Changing the composition of magma by incorporating surrounding host rock is known as ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Assimilation
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1007. Earthquakes with a very deep focus are usually located along ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
A convergent boundary such as the Peru-Chile trench
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1008. In tropical regions the ""winter"" season is merely the ________ period.
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Correct Answer:
Low sun
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1009. In regard to the indian ocean dipole (iod) is air mainly descending at ____, and rising at ___.
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Correct Answer:
A; C
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1010. El niño received its name because of its association with ________.
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Christmas
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1011. Earth's low-latitude deserts and steppes coincide with the ________ pressure belts.
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Subtropical high
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1012. Conformal maps greatly distort ________ of continents in higher latitudes.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Sizes
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1013. The first minerals to be mined were ________ and ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Flint, chert.
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1014. When subjected to a differential stress, a very ""brittle"" material, like glass, will ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Deform by breaking or elastic bending
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1015. When hot solutions emerge from the ocean floor, submarine hot springs called ________ form.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Hydrothermal vents
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1016. Waves begin to ""feel bottom"" when the depth of water is ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Equal to one-half the wavelength
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1017. Waves approaching a beach at an oblique angle ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Cause beach drift.
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1018. Water depths and seafloor topography are now routinely determined by ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Ship-mounted echo sounders
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1019. The vast majority of all sedimentary rocks are sandstones, limestones and ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Shales
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1020. The united states spans ________.
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Correct Answer:
From the temperate zone to the arctic
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1021. The theory of continental drift was revived, expanded, and put into its present form ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
In the 1960s.
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1022. The textbook uses climographs. climographs are useful in ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Classifying climate
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1023. The strands of chlorophyll-rich waters indicate __________ off the southwest african coast.
Answer
Correct Answer:
A Northwestern ocean surface current direction
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1024. The skeletal remains of plankton make up the sedimentary rock ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Chalk.
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1025. The richest assemblage of flora and fauna outside the tropics are in the ________ biome.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Midlatitude deciduous forest
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1026. The presence of vesicles in an igneous rock is evidence that the source melt ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Contained dissolved volatiles
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1027. The most luxuriant vegetation found in any climatic realm is the ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Tropical rain forest
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1028. The minerals gold, silver and mercury are often found in ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Hydrothermal veins
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1029. The low latitude dry regions coincide with ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
The subtropical high pressure belts
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1030. The himalayas and tibet are the archetypical example of a(n) ________ mountain belt.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Collisional.
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1031. The himalayan mountains and adjacent tibet are a mountain system formed by ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Continental collision
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1032. The higher plant type that carries its seeds in cones is the ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Gymnosperm
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1033. The expansion of deserts into once populated areas is known as ___.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Desertification
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1034. The earth's major layers formed because ________.
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Correct Answer:
The earth was heated after its formation resulting in melting and redistribution of major chemical compositions
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1035. The best building material to use in an earthquake prone region is ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Wood
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1036. The asthenosphere is the second layer of the earth characterized by ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Soft rocks that flow easily
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1037. The area that underlies the shallow water bordering continents is called the ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Continental shelf
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1038. The amount of destruction caused by earthquake vibrations is affected by ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
All of these
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1039. If yellowstone were on the ocean floor, it would produce ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
A chain of line islands, like Hawaii
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1040. Cross-bedding consists of many preserved ________ resulting from moving sand dunes.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Slip faces
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1041. ________ is not part of the hydrologic cycle.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Calcium carbonate dissolving in soil water and groundwater
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1042. Most forest resource managers aim to maintain resource populations ________ of the pictured curve.
Answer
Correct Answer:
In the middle
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1043. Most deformation occurs along plate boundaries because ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
The plates are in constant motion and as a result the boundaries are where they interact
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1044. Taiwan was at one time a colony of ______________.
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Correct Answer:
Japan
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1045. Flowing a distance of 2600 miles, the so-called ?danube of southeast asia? is the ________ river.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Mekong
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1046. Farmers in subsaharan africa today are greatly assisted by the advent of _______.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Mobile telephone systems
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1047. If you observe an angular unconformity, you would infer that the region had experienced ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Uplift and tilting of sedimentary units that exposes them to erosion over a period of time with subsequent renewed deposition
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1048. A(n) ________ texture would be most unlikely to occur in an extrusive igneous rock.
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Correct Answer:
Phaneritic
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1049. All of the following are factors that affect the generation of magma except for ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Crystal size
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1050. Steppe climates can be thought of as occupying transitional positions between deserts and ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Humid climates
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1051. Seafloor sediments are very important in discovering paleoclimate because they ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Contain the remains of organisms, which change with changing climate
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1052. Overall, the southern hemisphere has a milder winter than the northern hemisphere because ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
There is more water in the Southern Hemisphere
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1053. Cold winds pouring downhill because of gravity are called ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Katabatic winds
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1054. At times, latitudes higher than ________ degrees can have 24 hours or more of continuous darkness.
Answer
Correct Answer:
66.5
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1055. Both steppe and tundra vegetation zones have ________ in common.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Absence of trees
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1056. ________ is the ""major dilemma"" of mapmaking explained by the text.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Equivalence versus conformality
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1057. Geologically, ________ are actually submerged parts of the continents.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Continental shelves
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1058. Continental shields and platforms represent ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Areas in the interior of continents that have not experienced mountain building for billions of years
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1059. Compared to earth's crust as a whole, the sedimentary rocks beneath the ocean bottoms are ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Very thin
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1060. Among the following choices, the closest match for a divergent boundary is ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
The East African Rift valley
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1061. A ________ is a small, circular lake that will occupy a cirque.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Tarn
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1062. ________ refers to the bouncing motion sands will display when transported by moving water or wind.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Saltation.
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1063. ________ refers to the ""bouncing"" mode of sand transport in a windstorm or stream.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Saltation.
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1064. ________ is not a common cementing agent for sandstones.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Fluorite.
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1065. Heavy landscape damage and water pollution have occurred in ________ as a result of ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Appalachia; mountaintop removal mining for coal
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1066. Climatologists define a ""dry climate"" as a climate in which ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Precipitation is less than expected evaporation
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1067. A(n) ________ would logically be situated next to a large end moraine or terminal moraine.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Outwash plain
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1068. ________ is the total quantity of sediment carried by a river.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Capacity (load)
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1069. Squall line tornadoes ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
All of the above
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1070. The flattest surfaces on earth are ____.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Abyssal plains
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1071. The erosional retreat of a coastal cliff will lead to the enlargement of a ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Wave-cut platform
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1072. The term ""diffuse radiation"" is most closely associated with ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Scattering
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1073. Detrital sediments would predominate in all of the following environments except ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Salt flat
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1074. Death valley is a site where ________ sedimentary rocks are common.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Evaporite
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1075. Most crops cannot grow in ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Water logged soil
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1076. One disadvantage of beach nourishment as compared to hard stabilization is ________.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Beach nourishment is expensive
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1077. ________ is the oceanward edge of a continental shelf.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Coastal guyots
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1078. A ________ flood occurs when heavy rain strikes a mountainous area.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Flash
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1079. In a normal fault ________.
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Correct Answer:
The hanging wall block above an inclined fault plane moves downward relative to the other block
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1080. When sunlight strikes earth, approximately _______.
Answer
Correct Answer:
30% is reflected back into space
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1081. Waves cause erosion through the processes of ______ and abrasion.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Impact
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1082. When oceanic lithosphere collides with another plate, the ________ in the process of subduction.
