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What does Vacuum mean?
discovery on the careful observations of Tycho Brahe.
The temperature of an object.
A tool you use to clean dust that's on the ground.
Absence of matter.
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Define Tidally Locked.
dry weather for a specific area that is sufficiently prolonged for the lack
Elliptical circle around central body
Same face is facing towards the central body
Remant
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Focus is located where on a earthquake diagram
center of the earthquake
surface of the earthquake diagram
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What does EEPEA stand for?
Eons,Eras,Period,Epochs,Ages
Epochs, Elliptical, Period, Electromagnetic, Atmosphere
Eons,Elliptical,Plates,Eras,Axis
Eras, Energy, Pangea, Earth, Age
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What's the Outer Core?
One of the layers of the Earth
Connection, magnetosphere
A large, fan-shaped accumulation of sediment deposited
All energy resources
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An example of how Convection works
True
False
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What's Visible Spectrum - ROYGBIV?
All of the Above
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple
Rainbow
Small portion of the E M spectrum
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What does Fossil Record mean?
absence of matter
small portion of the E M spectrum
Moveable section of the crust
Remnants of animals, layer by layer
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When was the Age of Earth?
3.4 billion years ago
4.6 billion years ago
6 billion years ago
yesterday
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What does Nanometer mean?
1/billion M
1/trillion B
1/million B
none of the above
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An example of subduction.
False
True
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What's the Lower Mantle
On the Right of the Upper Mantle
Under the Upper Mantle
On top of the Upper Mantle
On the Left of the Upper Mantle
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what does rotation mean?
Spin around the central axis
the process of matching rock layers from different locations.
force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis
A depression formed by the impact of a meteorite
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What does Asthenosphere mean?
Plastic, malleable
An area of high pressure
The Northern Lights caused by the interaction between the solar wind
The shell within the earth
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What's Magnetosphere?
A system of rotating winds that develop where descending air spreads out.
A fold in rock that resembles an arch.
Magnetic shell protects from solar.
the leading edge of an advancing cold air mass that is under running
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What's the Scientific Method in order?
Questoin,experiment,test hypo,report,Observe,conclus,hypothesize,research
Observe,Question,Research,hypothesize,experiment,test hypo,conclus,report
None of the above
a method of procedure that has characterized natural science
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What does Crust mean?
the most common variety is vitric ash
Pizza hut stuffed crust
Thin layer
thick, low density, granitic
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What does Lithosphere mean?
A conspicuous, isolated, flattop hill with steep slopes.
The zone inhabited by life.
Brittle, rocky upper mantle.
A hypothetical series of concentric spheres centered at the center of Earth
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This is a picture of Low Energy
False
True
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What's Atmosphere?
thin layer of gas on a planet.
first layer above the surface.
merges into space in the extremely thin
just above the earth's surface and is extending up to 50–80km above earth.
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This is a picture of High Energy?
False
True
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What does Plates mean?
Moveable section of the crust.
extinction event that caused the abrupt demise of the majority of all life
Dinner plate.
A wall built along the banks of a stream to prevent rising flood water.
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What does Divergent do?
sub-ducts underneath plate
Come together
Side to side
move apart
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What's the Inner Core?
Sedimentary rocks such as most limestone, that are composed of broken shell
Solid, Iron-nickel alloy
thinnest layer in sedimentary rocks
Considered to be the point at which theoretically no molecular activity
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What does light year mean?
a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance
a long distance or great amount.
None of the above
Distance light travels in 1 earth year
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This is a picture of Light Waves
False
True
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What's the Upper Mantle?
An extensive accumulation of limestone such as the Florida Keys
Any rock or sediment transported and deposited by a glacier
Lithosphere, Asthenosphere together
The boiling point of pure water at standard pressure
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Where is the Epicenter located on the earthquake?
Surface of the earthquake
none of the above
around the earthquake
Center of the earthquake
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Definition of Orbit.
A sudden motion or trembling of the Earth caused by the abrupt release
Time measured in years.
Elliptical circle around the central body
A condition in which natural precipitation becomes acidic after reacted
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What's the Goldilocks Zone?
Any process that uses water, and then returns it to the Earth far of source
a group of stars that appears to form a pattern in the sky.
Distance from a star that a planet could have water on it.
The shape of the ellipse that Constitution the Earth's orbit around the Sun
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What does Convergent do?
Side to side
Come together
move apart
sub-ducts underneath plate
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What does transverse do?
side to side
move apart
sub-ducts underneath plate
Come together
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Transverse means to move apart
True
False
