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| show | sediments are deposited as horizontal layers
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| show | OLDER then the layer above and YOUNGER than the layer below
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| The principle of superposition states that | show 🗑
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| The most common fossils in rocks of the past 500 million years are | show 🗑
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| Fossils are most common in which rock types? | show 🗑
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| show | A gap in the geologic record
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| Which of the following is the smallest division of geologic time? | show 🗑
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| show | 250 million years ago
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| show | Sedimentary
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| Radiometric dating is possible if a rock contains measurable amounts of | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements is false? | show 🗑
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| show | Continental shelf then the continental slope then the continental rise.
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| In which of the following locations would you most likely find outcrops of basalt on the ocean floor? | show 🗑
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| A traverse from North America across the Atlantic Ocean to Continental Europe would reveal that the ocean floor | show 🗑
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| show | about 30 km deep
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| Graded beds of sand, silt, and mud deposited on submarine fans are called | show 🗑
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| show | Mid-ocean ridges
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| show | the west coast of South America
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| Which of the following best describes pelagic sediments? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following currents erodes deposit fine-grained sediments on the continental slope and rise? | show 🗑
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| show | unattached oxygen
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| Life's orgin on earth is believe to have been depend on the prescence of | show 🗑
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| show | were prokaryotes
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| The first evidence of fossils that appear to be the remains of living organisms are found in rocks | show 🗑
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| show | Eukaryotes (protistans)
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| show | Cambrian Explosion
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| show | Anaerobic respiration preceded aerobic respiration
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| show | resulted in the extinction of over 90% of marine life and half of the life on land.
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| According to the 'Snowball Earth' hypothesis | show 🗑
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| The K-T extinction | show 🗑
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| show | the build-up and release of stress during an earthquake
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| show | focus
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| Point B is called the earthquake (at the surface) | show 🗑
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| show | about 10 meters
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| Which statement regarding aftershocks is true? | show 🗑
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| Which type of seismic waves arrive at a seismograph first? | show 🗑
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| Which lists the order in which seismic waves arrive at a seismograph station? | show 🗑
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| show | surface waves
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| show | the amount of ground movement caused by seismic waves
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| The energy released during a magnitude 8 earthquake is approximately ______ times large than the energy released during a magnitude 6 earthquake | show 🗑
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| What kind of faulting is most likely to cause tsunamis? | show 🗑
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| show | convergent, divergent, and transform fault boundries
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| show | reverse faulting
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| which of the following recent earthquakes killed the most people? | show 🗑
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| Earthquakes that orginate at depths greater then 100 km are associated with _______ plate boundries | show 🗑
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| show | tsunamis are producted by tidal forces, which is why they are also called tidal waves
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| How fast do tsunamis travel across the ocean? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements is the most accurate? | show 🗑
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| show | western US
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| Tsuamis can be generated by | show 🗑
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| show | Mount Rainier
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| Where do most basaltic magmas originate? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements about lava is true? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following lavas will travel downhill slowest? | show 🗑
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| Solidified fragments of volcanic material ejected into the air are called | show 🗑
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| What type of volcano has the largest and most violent eruptions? | show 🗑
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| show | lahars
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| show | sulfur dioxide
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| show | Pacific Ocean
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| show | convergent plate margin
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| Over the past 2000 years, which of the following volcanic hazard has caused the most fatalities? | show 🗑
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