geology terms
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| show | running water
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| show | downcut
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| along a stream meander, the maximun velocity of water occurs | show 🗑
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| show | decreasing
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| the flat portion of a valley floor adjacent to a stream channel | show 🗑
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| which type of drainage pattern will most likely develop where the underlying material is relatively uniform | show 🗑
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| ice sheets and glaciers represent ___% of the total volume of freshwater | show 🗑
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| show | flooding
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| plant release water into the atmosphere through a process called | show 🗑
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| show | distributaries
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| the average annual precipitation worldwide must equal the quanity of water | show 🗑
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| during periods when rain does not fall, rivers are sustained by | show 🗑
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| which on of the following would least likely be found in a wide valley | show 🗑
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| show | center
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| show | mass wasting
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| show | permeability
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| show | discharge
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| show | depression
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| show | small
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| show | carbonic
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| show | aeration
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| show | in suspension
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| the great majority of hot springs and geysers in the US are found in the | show 🗑
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| Whenever the water table intersects the ground surface, a natural flow of water called a ___ results | show 🗑
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| show | outwash plain
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| icebergs are produced when large pieces of ice break off from the front of a glacier during | show 🗑
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| show | transverse dune
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| show | pleistocene epoch
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| show | plucking
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| show | mass extinctions
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| show | glacier
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| show | interior
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| the all-embracing term for sediments of glacuial origin | show 🗑
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| the end moraine that marks the farthest advance of a glacier is called | show 🗑
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| cracks that form in the zone of fracture of a glacier | show 🗑
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| show | ephemeral
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| show | eskers
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| show | till
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| valleys that are left standing high above the main trough of a receding valley glacier are termed | show 🗑
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| the thickest and most extensive loess deposits occur in western and northern | show 🗑
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| show | fiords
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| moraines that form when two valley glaciers coalesce to form a single ice stream are termed | show 🗑
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| boulders found in glaciers till or lying free on the surface are called glacial | show 🗑
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| show | arroyo
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| show | playas
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| the most noticeable result of deflation in some places are shallow depressions called | show 🗑
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| evidence indicates that in addition to the pleistocene epoch, there were at least ___ earlier periods of glacial activity | show 🗑
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| the leeward slope of a dune is called the | show 🗑
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| show | nevada
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| show | 30,000
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| show | epicenter
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| show | lithosphere
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| show | liquefaction
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| show | p wave
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| show | shadow zone
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| show | seismology
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| show | the circum-pacific belt
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| show | velocities
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| the source of an earthquake is called the | show 🗑
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| long-range earthquake forecasts are based on the premise that earthquakes are | show 🗑
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| the epicenter of an earthquake is located using the distances from a minimum of __ seismic stations | show 🗑
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| which of the earthquake body waves cannot be transmitted through fluids | show 🗑
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| show | peridotite
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| show | liquefaction
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| the adjustments of materials that follow a major earthquake often generate smaller earthquakes called | show 🗑
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| an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 releases __ times more energy than one with a magnitude of 5.5 | show 🗑
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| show | plate boundaries
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| the amount of damage caused by an earthquake at a specific location is used to determine the intensity of an earthquake in the | show 🗑
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| the greatest concentration of metals occure in earth's | show 🗑
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| most of earth's seismic activity, volcanism, and mountain building occur along | show 🗑
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| the apparent movement of earth | show 🗑
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| the type of plate boundary where plates move together, causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to be consumed into the mantle as it descends beneath an overriding plate, is called | show 🗑
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| show | 5
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| show | pangoea
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| show | curie point
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| show | continental shelf
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| the ateutian, mariana, and tonga islands are examples | show 🗑
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| show | asthenosphere
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| show | mechinism
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| the spreading rate for the mid-atlantic ridge is ___ than the rate for most of the east pacific rise | show 🗑
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| show | lithosphere
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| most deep-focus earthquakes occur in association with | show 🗑
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| the theory of plate tectonics holds the earth | show 🗑
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| most deep-focus earthquakes occur in association with | show 🗑
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| the theory of plate tectonics holds the earth's rigid outer shell consists of ___ major plates | show 🗑
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| show | increases
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| during oceanic-continental convergence, as the oceanic plate slides beneath the overriding plate, a _______ is often produced adjacent to the zone of subduction | show 🗑
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| show | hot spot
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