Review for midterm Part B
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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the idea that older rocks lie beneath younger rocks | Principle of Superposition
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a fossil that lived during one geologic time period | index fossil
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fracture or crack in the earth's crust | fault
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the measure of the time it takes for one half of a radioactive substance to decay | half-life
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Name 3 things used to create the geologic time scale | rocks, fossils, and ice cores
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rocks formed from the cooling of magma and lava | igneous
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What does radioactive dating tell you? | absolute age of rocks & fossils
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best method to date human remains | Carbon-14
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the removal and movement of sediment from one place to another | erosion
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rocks formed from heat and pressure | metamorphic
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The fact that S. America and Africa appear to fit together like puzzle pieces supports the idea of __ | continental drift (plate tectonics)
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What do ice cores allow scientists to do? | study the Earth's past climate
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the laying down of sediment by a river will form ___ rock | sedimentary
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produced when plates collide | mountains
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Which element is found in all living things? | Carbon
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Name at least one condition necessary for fossils to form. | quick burial or the presence of hard parts
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process that occurs to allow magma/lava to form igneous rock | cooling
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Which type of elements are good conductors of heat? | metals
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What type of change is represented by boiling, freezing, and melting? | physical change
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calculating the age of rocks according to their position | relative dating
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What type of element is most likely to react with a metal? | nonmetal
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group of elements with a full outer shell | noble gases
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elements found along the zig-zag line on the periodic table | metalloids
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used to show a chemical reaction | chemical equation
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On which side of the periodic table will you find the metals? | left
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A ship floating on the ocean demonstrates the property of ___. | density
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A change in which the identity of the matter is changed and a new substance is formed. | chemical change
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What is added to a chemical equation to balance it? | coefficients
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the ingredients in a chemical reaction | reactants
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the substance(s) formed during a chemical reaction | product
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the number of protons plus the number of neutrons | atomic mass
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largest group of metals - they have a wide variety of properties | transition metals
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chemical shorthand for a molecule or compound | formula
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