SOL Review
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Density | show 🗑
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show | is found by water displacement.
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Warm (air, water, magma) | show 🗑
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Cold (air, water, magma) | show 🗑
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show | so does density
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Water is most dense | show 🗑
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The same substance has the | show 🗑
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As mass increase | show 🗑
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show | a prediction about a problem that can be tested.
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Variable | show 🗑
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Constants are | show 🗑
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Any valid scientific theory | show 🗑
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show | your Latitude
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Latitude | show 🗑
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Longitude | show 🗑
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show | the steeper the slope.
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Contour lines from | show 🗑
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show | solid inner core (Fe & Ni)
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The Earth consists of a | show 🗑
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show | plastic-like mantle (Si, O, Fe, Ni)
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The Earth consists of a | show 🗑
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The lithosphere | show 🗑
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show | thinner, younger, and denser than continental crust.
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show | basaltic rock
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Convection currents | show 🗑
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show | rises, cools, becomes more dense and sinks.
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Convergent Boundaries | show 🗑
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Divergent boundaries are | show 🗑
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Transform boundaries | show 🗑
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show | can result with any plate movement.
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Hot Spots | show 🗑
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A fault | show 🗑
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show | are folded mountains.
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Volcanic activity | show 🗑
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show | will always sink under a continental plate because it is more dense.
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Three seismic stations | show 🗑
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P waves travel | show 🗑
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P waves travel | show 🗑
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P waves slow down | show 🗑
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S waves | show 🗑
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show | the process the rocks are broken down by water, air, and organisms.
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Chemical Weathering | show 🗑
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show | occurs in cold climates - Ice Wedging.
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Erosion | show 🗑
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Streams and moving water | show 🗑
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show | is the dropping or settling of sediment.
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show | equals high relief areas
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High deposition | show 🗑
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show | settle out first.
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show | Breccia, Sand, silt, clay
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show | permeability (the ability to transport water) increases.
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Soil Evolution starts | show 🗑
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Organic material must | show 🗑
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Soil profile consists of | show 🗑
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Karst Topography has | show 🗑
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Valley and Ridge Province is | show 🗑
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show | from the surface down would include zone of aeration, water table, and zone of saturation.
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Aquaifer | show 🗑
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A sping | show 🗑
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show | the process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitatin, and runoff.
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The Coastal Plain | show 🗑
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show | abundant in the Appalachian Mountains.
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Piedmont is | show 🗑
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show | a fall line from the Coastal Plain.
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show | Oldest in State
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show | the long parallel ridges composed of folded and faulted rocks that occurred during the collision of Africa and North America durint the Paleozoic.
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show | underlain by sedimentary rocks.
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Coal resources are | show 🗑
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show | is found in nature, inorganic, solid, with a definite chemical composition and structure.
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show | their atomic structure.
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show | useful and profitable.
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show | classified by composition and texture.
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show | the cooling of magma or lava.
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Fast cooling | show 🗑
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Slow cooling | show 🗑
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show | heat and pressure.
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show | foliated (banded) and non foliated.
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Foliated rocks are | show 🗑
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show | marble and quartzite.
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show | into marble.
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Sandstone morphs | show 🗑
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show | from rock fragments, organic material, or chemical precipitation.
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show | found in flat layers or strata. Fossils are found in these layers.
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show | include clastic, organic, and chemical.
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Limestore | show 🗑
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show | made of fragments - Conglomerate, sandstone, and shale.
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Virginia resources include | show 🗑
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show | be replaced by nature at a rate close to the rate at which they are used. Inclues vegetation, water, and soil.
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show | renewed very slowly or not at all. Includes coal, oil, and minerals.
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The Earth's Water Supply is | show 🗑
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show | is the remains, impressions, or other evidence of a former existenece of life preserved in rock.
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Virginia's fossils are | show 🗑
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show | the oldest rocks are found on the bottom of strata and the youngest on top of strata.
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show | an igneous intrusion is younger than the layers it cuts across.
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Fossils, Superposition, and Cross-cutting are used to | show 🗑
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show | placing events in sequence without assigning exact numerical ages.
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Absolute time places | show 🗑
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Radioactive decay or half-life is used to | show 🗑
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show | find the ages of the oldest rocks.
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Carbon-14 is used to find | show 🗑
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show | 4.6 billion years old.
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show | 2 per day
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Low Tides | show 🗑
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Tides are | show 🗑
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Currents move from | show 🗑
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Upwelling brings | show 🗑
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show | areas where salt water mixes with fresh water. Ex.: Chesapeak Bay
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show | rises when ice caps melt.
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show | responsible for the first oxygen on Earth.
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Presently Blue Green Algae is | show 🗑
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show | reservoir of heat at the Earth's surface.
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show | the weather of the Earth.
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show | mostly CO2 and very little O2.
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show | 21% Oxygen, 78% Nitrogen, and 1% trace gases.
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show | increased CO2 levels.
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show | produce the Greenhouse effect.
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CFC's are decreasing | show 🗑
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Areas near the Equator | show 🗑
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show | air is at or below its dew point and condensation nuclei are present.
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Coriolis Effect causes | show 🗑
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show | humidity in the air.
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show | air pressure.
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Highs are | show 🗑
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show | warm and wet.
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Wind is due to | show 🗑
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show | high to low.
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show | quickly and produce rain at the Front.
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show | slow and produce miles and miles of clouds.
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The highest pressure is | show 🗑
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show | clock-wise and outward.
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show | prevailing westerlies.
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show | west to east.
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show | June 21 (longest day)
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show | December 21 (shortest day)
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Solstice is when | show 🗑
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show | when the sun is directly over the equator.
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Spring Equinoxes | show 🗑
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Fall Equinoxes | show 🗑
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show | to the sun in the winter.
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The Earth rotates | show 🗑
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show | around the sun once in 365.25
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The Earth is | show 🗑
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show | because of relected sunlight and the angle at which we view it.
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show | the Earth rotates.
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Parallax and Seasonal constellations | show 🗑
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show | Inner (rockey) and Outer (gaseous)
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Comets are known as | show 🗑
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Comet's coma is the result of | show 🗑
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show | rocky or metallic iron objects with origins between Mars and Jupiter.
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AU = | show 🗑
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show | the distance light travels in a year. We measure star and galaxy distances with Light years.
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Appollo 11 | show 🗑
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Neil Armstrong | show 🗑
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The Big-Bang | show 🗑
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show | explains that the planets formed from the condensing of our sun or solar nebulae.
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show | Nebula, protostar, Yellow Main Sequence Star, Red Giant, White dwarf and black dwarf.
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Black holes | show 🗑
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show | the Milky Way Galaxy which is a spiral galaxy.
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show | are spiral, elliptical, and irregular.
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The Hubble Space telescope | show 🗑
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Red Shifts indicate | show 🗑
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show | from softest to hardest - Peat, Lignite, Bituminous, Anthracite.
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Unconformities are | show 🗑
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