geology terms
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| The single most important agent sculpting the Earths land surface | show 🗑
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| Lowering a streams base level will cause the stream to | show 🗑
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| show | near the outer bank of the meander
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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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| show | 85
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| show | flooding
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| show | transpiration
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| Occasionally depostion causes the main channel of a stream to divide into several smaller channels called | show 🗑
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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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| along straight stretches the highest velocities of water are near the ___ of the channel, just below the surface | show 🗑
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| show | mass wasting
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| which one of the following is a measure of material's ability to transmit water through interconnected pore spaces | show 🗑
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| the capacity of a stream is directly related to its | show 🗑
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| show | depression
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| in a typical stream, where gradient is steep, discharge is | show 🗑
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| show | carbonic
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| the area above the water table where soil is not saturated is called the zone of | show 🗑
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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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| a broad ramplike surface of stratified drift built adjacent to the downstream edge of most end moraines | show 🗑
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| show | calving
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| which type of dune will form at a right angle to the prevailing wind when there is abundant sand, little or no vegetation and a constant wind direction | show 🗑
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| show | pleistocene epoch
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| the two major ways that glaciers erode land are abrasion and | show 🗑
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| which one of the following is NOT an effect that pleistocene glaciers had upon the landscape | show 🗑
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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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| show | crevasses
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| show | ephemeral
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| sinous ridges composed of sand and gravel deposited by streams flowing in tunnesl beneath glacial ice | show 🗑
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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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| show | China
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| glacial troughs that have become deep steep-sided inlets of the sea are called | show 🗑
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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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| show | blowouts
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| show | three
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| show | slip face
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| show | nevada
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| show | 30,000
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| show | epicenter
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| the cool rigid layer of earth that includes the entire crust as well as the uppermost mantle is called the | show 🗑
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| underground storage tanks rising to the surface as the result of an earthquake is evidence of | show 🗑
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| show | p wave
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| the belt from about 105-140 degrees away from an earthquake where no P waves are recorded is known as the | show 🗑
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| the study of earthquakes is called | show 🗑
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| which one of the following regions has the greates amount of seismic activity | show 🗑
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| the difference in _____ of Pand S waves provides a method for determining the epicenter of an earthquake | show 🗑
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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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| in areas where unconsolidated materials are saturated with water, earthquakes can turn stable soil into a fluid during a phenomenon called | show 🗑
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| the adjustments of materials that follow a major earthquake often generate smaller earthquakes called | show 🗑
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| show | 30
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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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| show | core
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| most of earth's seismic activity, volcanism, and mountain building occur along | show 🗑
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| show | (blank)
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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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| typical rates of seafloor spreading average around __ centimeters per year | show 🗑
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| show | pangoea
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| magnetic minerals lose their magnitism when heated above a certain temperature, called the | show 🗑
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| show | continental shelf
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| show | volcanic island arcs
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| show | asthenosphere
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| one of the main objections to wegener's hypothesis was his inability to provide an acceptable _____ for contiental drift | show 🗑
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| show | less
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| show | lithosphere
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| show | open trenches
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| show | (blank)
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| show | open trenches
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| show | seven
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| the age of the deepest sediment in an ocean basin _____ with increasing distance from the oceanic basin | show 🗑
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| show | deap-ocean trench
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| the chain of volcanic structures extending from the hawaiian islands to midway island and the continuing northward towaed the aleutian trench has formed over a _____ as the pacific plate | show 🗑
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