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A terrarium is a simple, closed one
of these.
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What is a system?
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The four open systems that make up the
Earth.
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What are the atmosphere, hydrosphere,
biosphere, and geosphere?
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The “sphere” that you are a part of.
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What is the biosphere?
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Continents, islands, and the seafloor
are all parts of this.
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What is the geosphere?
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The two gases that make up 99% of
the Earth’s atmosphere.
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What are nitrogen and oxygen?
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The part of the Earth labeled A.
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What is the hydrosphere?
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The Earth’s layer identified by the
arrow.
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What is the outer core?
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The least reliable property for
identifying a mineral.
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What is color?
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4 properties used to identify
minerals.
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What are color, streak, luster,
cleavage or fracture, density, special
properties and hardness?
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The most common rock-forming
mineral group.
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What are the silicates?
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The four characteristics of all
minerals.
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What is solid, formed in nature,
definite chemical makeup, and
crystal structure?
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Three of the five methods of mineral
formation within Earth and at the
surface.
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What is water evaporating, organisms
form shells or bones, hot water cools,
molten rocks cools, heat and pressure
cause changes?
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The three types of rocks.
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What is sedimentary, igneous, and
metamorphic?
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The arrangement of minerals in flat
or wavy parallel bands.
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What is foliation?
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at location A.
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What is an intrusive igneous rock?
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Two natural processes of chemical
weathering.
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What is rusting and dissolving?
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Three of four natural processes of
mechanical weathering.
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What is ice wedging, exfoliation,
plant root growth, and abrasion?
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The three factors that influence the
rate of weathering of rocks.
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What is surface area, composition,
and climate?
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Three of four soil properties that can
be observed and measured.
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What are texture, color, pore space,
and chemistry?
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The three main activities of humans
that impact soil resources.
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What are farming, mining, and
construction and development?
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Three of the four causes of erosion.
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What are water, wind, ice, and
gravity?
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The two features identified by A and B in
the picture.
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What is a meander and an oxbow lake?
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The process in which weathered particles
are picked up and moved from one place
to another.
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What is erosion?
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The part of the erosion process in
which sediment is placed in a new
location.
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What is deposition?
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The downhill movements of large
amounts of rock and soil.
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What is mass wasting?
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2 of the 3 types of mass wasting.
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What is slump, creep, & mudflow?
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The shape of a valley formed by a
mountain stream.
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What is V-shaped?
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The reason why floodplains are good
for farming.
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What is the rich deposits of sediment
left behind after floods?
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The area of a meander where water
is moving fastest.
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What is the outside?
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The main difference between an
alluvial fan and a delta.
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What is alluvial fans form at the base
of mountains and deltas form at the
mouth of rivers?
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The sediment left directly on the
ground surface by a retreating
glacier.
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What is till?
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The two types of glaciers.
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What is continental and alpine?
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The 2 landforms created by
retreating glaciers.
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What is a moraine and kettle lake?
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The type of mechanical weathering
that causes visible grooves on rock
surfaces.
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What is abrasion?
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The type of glacier.
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What is alpine?
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The type of mass wasting shown in
the picture.
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What is slump?
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The 3 types of plate boundaries.
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What are convergent, divergent,
transform plate boundaries?
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Name 2 features that result from
subduction boundaries.
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What is island arcs, deep-ocean
trenches, and coastal mountains.
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The 3 types of convergent plate
boundaries.
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What are continental-continental
collision, oceanic-oceanic
subduction, and oceanic-continental
subduction?
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3 pieces of evidence for the theory of
continental drift.
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What is climate, fossils, and geology?
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Name the Earth’s 6 layers in
alphabetical order.
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What is asthenosphere, crust, inner
core, lithosphere, mantle, and outer
core?
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The thickest of all the Earth’s layers.
• QUESTION: What is the mantle?
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The Earth layer that makes up
tectonic plates.
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What is the lithosphere?
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The two metals that make up the
inner core.
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What are iron and nickel?
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The process in the asthenosphere that
is responsible for plate movements.
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What is convection currents?
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Huge underwater mountain ranges.
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What are mid-ocean ridges?
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The name of the supercontinent
when all continents were joined.
• QUESTION: What is Pangaea?
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The fossilized reptile discovered in
South America and western Africa
that supported continental drift.
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What is the Mesosaurus?
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3 pieces of evidence for the theory of
continental drift.
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What is climate, fossils, and geology?
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The other term for a divergent
boundary in the ocean.
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What is a spreading center?
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This is where hot rock rises from the
mantle away from a plate boundary.
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What is a hot spot?
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This is what happens to the crust at
a divergent plate boundary.
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What is it forms?
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When divergent plates spread this
feature may result on land.
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What is a rift valley?
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This type of convergent plate boundary
causes the plates to crumple and fold to
make mountains.
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What is continental-continental collision?
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2 plates scrape past each other at
this type of plate boundary.
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What is a transform plate
boundary?
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At this type of plate boundary crust
is neither formed nor destroyed.
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What is a transform plate
boundary?
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The type of plate boundary marked J.
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• QUESTION: What is the lithosphere?
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• ANSWER: The feature represented by A.
• QUESTION: What is a trench?
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• ANSWER: The feature represented by A.
• QUESTION: What is a mid-ocean ridge or
spreading center?
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The 3 types of seismic waves in order
of decreasing speed.
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What is primary, secondary, and
surface?
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Name 2 structural features that can
be used to make a building more
earthquake-safe.
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What are cross braces, moat, base
isolator, shear walls, and shear core?
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The instrument that constantly
records ground movements and the
number of them required to locate
the epicenter of an earthquake.
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What is a seismograph and 3?
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The 3 types of faults.
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What is normal (divergent), reverse
(convergent), and strike-slip
(transform)?
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The 3 types of volcanoes.
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What is shield, cinder cone, and
composite?
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4 possible immediate effects of a
volcanic eruption.
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What are lava flows, volcanic ash,
mudflows, pyroclastic flows,
landslides, and steam explosions?
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The smallest rock fragments that
erupt from a volcano.
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What is ash?
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The huge crater formed by the
collapse of a volcano when magma
rapidly erupts from underneath it.
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What is a caldera?
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The 3 places where volcanoes can
form.
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What is at hot spots, divergent and
convergent plate boundaries?
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This determines the consistency of a
volcano’s lava.
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What is the silica content?
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The type of volcano that has the
most violent eruptions and a real-life
example of one.
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What is composite & any Cascade
volcano.
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The volcanic effect that would affect
the most people.
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What is ash fall?
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This volcanic effect is the most
dangerous due to its high speed and
temperature.
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What is a pyroclastic flow?
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A negative long-term effect of a
volcanic eruption.
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What is acid rain?
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The major risk of a Mt. Rainier
eruption would be this.
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What is a lahar?
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Hot springs that erupt and send hot
water shooting into the air.
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What is a geyser?
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This holds the magma of a volcano.
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What is the magma chamber?
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The difference between lava and
magma?
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What is lava is on Earth’s surface
and magma is below?
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Hot springs that form at spreading
centers of the ocean.
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What are deep-sea vents?
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Hot springs that erupt and send hot
gases and steam into the air.
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What is a fumarole?
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The type of volcano identified by the
arrow.
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What is a shield volcano?
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The volcanic rock fragment shown in the
picture.
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What is a volcanic bomb?
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