1. Final Exam Review

2. Geologic Time
Plate Tectonics
Rocks
Astronomy 1
Astronomy 2
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3. What type of rock is formed by the cooling of magma or lava?
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What type of rock is formed by the cooling of magma or lava?
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Answer: igneous

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What type of rock should fit in the yellow square on this rock cycle chart?
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Answer: Sedimentary

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What must happen to other rocks before a sedimentary rock can be formed?
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Answer: weathering

6. How could a sedimentary rock become a metamorphic rock?
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How could a sedimentary rock become a metamorphic rock?
Answer: must be exposed to high heat and/or large pressure
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7. Which rock should fit in the blue box?
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Which rock should fit in the blue box? A B C
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Answer: B

8. What era was the longest in Earth’s history?
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What era was the longest in Earth’s history?
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Answer: Pre-Cambrian

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To find the EXACT age of a rock you would need to use this type of dating
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Answer: Absolute Dating – Radiometric Dating

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If a half-life of a substance is 20 million years and there is 25% parent atoms remaining how old is the substance?
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Answer: 40 million years old

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This principle states that older rocks are found in layers below newer rocks.
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Answer: principle of superposition

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What are the remains of an organism found only in a specific layer of rock?
Answer: Index fossils
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13. The two types of Earth’s crust are?
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The two types of Earth’s crust are?
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Answer: Continental crust, Oceanic Crust

14. This is formed when two oceanic plates move away from each other
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This is formed when two oceanic plates move away from each other
Answer: Mid-Oceanic Ridge
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15. This is formed when two continental crusts collide.
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This is formed when two continental crusts collide.
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Answer:Mountains

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The process one plate moving under another due to convergence is termed:
Answer: Subduction
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17. The driving force behind plate movements comes from this
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The driving force behind plate movements comes from this
Answer: Convection currents in the Earth’s core
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18. The belief that the earth is the center of the universe is termed
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The belief that the earth is the center of the universe is termed
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Answer: Geocentric

19. 400
How much of any object in our solar system is lit up by the sun at any given time?
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Answer: Half

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When the moon is directly between the Earth and Sun and its shadow falls upon the surface of the earth it is called this
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Answer: Solar Eclipse

21. Which crater is the oldest?
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Which crater is the oldest? A B C D
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Answer: D

22. What is the name of the moon phase seen below
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What is the name of the moon phase seen below
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Answer: Quarter moon

23. All electromagnetic radiation travels in this form
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All electromagnetic radiation travels in this form
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Answer: Waves

24. Of all the visible light, this color has the shortest wavelength
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Of all the visible light, this color has the shortest wavelength
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Answer: Blue

25. As wavelength decreases what happens to the frequency of that wave?
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As wavelength decreases what happens to the frequency of that wave?
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Answer: Frequency will increase

26. What type of electromagnetic energy has the largest wavelength?
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What type of electromagnetic energy has the largest wavelength?
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Answer: radio waves

27. If a shirt looks blue, explain why it looks that way.
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If a shirt looks blue, explain why it looks that way.
Answer: Blue light is being REFLECTED while the other colors are being ABSORBED
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