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Earth is approximately how many years old?
Ancient Preserved Organism
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Ancient Preserved Organism
Continent
Fossil
Landform
Landmass
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Earth is approximately how many years old?
4.6 million
60 million
60 billion
4.6 billion
3
Star that ends its life in a black hole
very high mass
high mass
medium mass
low mass
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What is Pangaea?
Ancient Fossil
Continental Drift
Supercontinent
German Scientist
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A gap in the geologic record
Fault
Intrusion
Unconformity
Extrusion
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An animal with out a backbone
Vertebrate
Invertebrate
Mammal
Amphibian
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What is "red shift"
difference in color of galaxies
When stars get older
Chance in the solar cycle
Tells us galaxies move away from us
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Into what group will the Sun move when it goes onto the next stage of it's life cycle
Giants
White Dwarfs
Supergiants
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Mid-Ocean Ridge is
Only in Pacific
Along Coastlines
Deep Trench
Longest Mountain Chain
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Most scientist rejected Wegener's idea of continental drift because
Interested in old things
No driving mechanism
Afraid of new ideas
Had to much evidence
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When fusion occurs in the sun's core
2 hydrogen become 1 helium
2 carbon become 1 iron
4 hydrogen become 1 helium
4 carbon become 1 iron
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Rock that go further back in the fossil record
contain simpler organisms
contain more complex organisms
contain no organisms
contain only living organisms
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Elements heavier that iron are made from a
supergiant
main sequence
supernova
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Stage where a star spends 90% of its life
white dwarf
main sequence
nebula
red giant
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The universe is ______years old
65 million
4.6 billion
10,000
13.7 billion
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method for measuring distance to a star
Protostar
Parallax
Blue Shift
Solar Cycle
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A light year measures
weight
time
brightness
distance
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The elements in our body were originally made in
a volcano
a star
a bolt of lightning
Frankenstein's lab
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A collision between two continental crusts at a converging boundary produce
deep-ocean trench
mid-ocean ridge
mountain ranges
rift valley
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The heaviest element that can be created by fusion in a supergiant star?
uranium
iron
oxygen
helium
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Process in which ocean floor sinks through deep ocean trench
convection
subduction
conduction
continental drift
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During which era did the dinosaurs first arrive?
Mesozoic
Cenozoic
Paleozoic
Tertiary
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Arranges stars from the coolest to hottest
orange, yellow, red, blue, white
red, orange, yellow, white, blue
white, blue, yellow, orange, red
blue, white, yellow, orange, red
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The place where two plates come together through compression
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
rift valley
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Which era were mammals the dominant species?
Tertiary
Paleozoic
Mesozoic
Cenozoic
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The outward pressure from fusion balances the inward pull of gravity
supernova
equilibrium
black dwarf
congruence
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11 years is the time it takes for
light to travel to earth
a full solar cycle
a solar flare
a star to explode
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Property that determines how long a star will live
color
mass
brightness
distance
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Which is NOT caused by solar storms?
hurricanes
communication issues
power outage
aurora
