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first geo 1 exam

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heliocentric   everything revolves around the sun  
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geocentric   everything revolves around the earth  
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nebula   nuclear clouds flatten and rotate  
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supernova   when H+He in star run out, and explosion causes formation of other 92 elements  
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red shift/blue shift   when light source is moving, farther distances cause wavelengths to lengthen and become red-shifted, opposite for blue shifted  
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solar wing    
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hypothesis vs. theory vs. law   offered explanation of observations vs. when hypo withstands tests and accurately predicts future observations vs. no sensible challenge and is often summarized in mathematical relationship  
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Earth's Crush   silic and mafic, top layer  
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Moho   the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle  
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mantle   iron alloys, allows plate tectonics  
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outer core   below mantle  
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inner core   idk  
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magma   ugh  
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lava   ugh  
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polar wander   poles are not exactly at north and south  
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pangaea   when all continents were combined in jurrassic era 1xx to 65 million years ago.  
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geographic pole vs. magnetic pole   top & bottom vs. positive & negative  
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marine magnetic anomaly   switching of magnetic poles in layers of rocks  
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passive vs. active margin   where continent edge is hitting edge of oceanic plate vs. continent edges not hitting other oceanic plates  
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lithosphere   brittle part of mantle  
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asthenosphere   ductile part of mantly  
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sheeted dikes   layers of lava emerging that freezed fsat  
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pillow lavas   extrusion of lava underwater  
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black smoker   channels of super heated water send back into ocean due to lava flow  
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mid-ocean ride    
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ophiolite   sea crust on continental crust  
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submarine trench    
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divergent boundary   away  
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convergent boundary   towards  
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transform boundary (transform fault)   next  
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fracture zone   transform thingies  
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intra-plate hot spot    
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uniformitarianism    
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baked contact   when lava heats up rock aorund it  
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original continuity    
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lithologic correlation    
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fossil correlation    
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uncomformity    
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blocking temperature    
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Aristotle   300 BC concluded earth was round  
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Copernicus    
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Darwin   1800s naturalist, "On the Origin of Species", FATHER OF EVOLUTION  
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Eratosthenes   200-100 BC measured the size of the earth  
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Galileo   1600s saw jupiters moons, favored helio-centric view  
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Hess   1900 proposed seafloor spreading  
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Holmes   1800-1900 proposed convections cells in mantle, which allows plates to move  
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Hubble   1900 discovered light from other galaxies, "redshift meant galaxies were moving away from us  
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Hutton    
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Lamarck   1700s-1800s identified lines of descent, assumed new structures arose out of need,  
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Linnaeus   1700's organized living things, father of taxonomy, devised 7-part hierarchy and two part naming system  
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Ptolemy   87-150 AD proponent of geocentric view  
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Leavitt   1900s determined relative brightness of known stars can tell us distance to stars that are even farther away  
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Newton   Added mathematical proof to explain motions of planets and stationary sun  
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SMith   late 1700s to early 1800s made first geologic map, observed that separate rock units could be correlated by fossils they contain  
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Steno   father of stratigraphy;  
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Wallace    
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Watson+Crick   discovered DNA mid 1900s  
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Wegner   1800-1900 proposed plate tectonics and pangaea  
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Age of Universe   14 billion years ago  
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Age of Sun   4.5 Billion years old  
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Age of Earth   4.5 Billion years old  
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Age of oldest rocks   4.4 Billion years old  
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Age of oldest ocean crust   200 million years old  
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radius of Earth, km   6,378 km  
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highest mountain, m deepest trench, m   Mount Everest; 8,848 m Mariana Trench; 10,910 m  
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rates of seafloor spreading, cm/yr    
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origin of Sun   nuclear dust swirled together and H+He fuse to form elements up to Fe  
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origin of earth+moon   earlier supernovae explosions, Plane tesinals combined to become earth, one hit larger earth, became dust that swirled into moon  
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origin of 2 primary earth elevations    
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cause of ocean    
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cause of atmosphere    
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origin of magnetic field    
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cause of marine magnetic anomalies   switching magnetic poles  
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cause of hot spot volcanism    
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cause of variation in species   certain conditions allow certain traits to keep animals alive, which allows them to breed more than the ones with other traits  
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composition of atmosphere   oxygen, nitrogen, carbon  
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composition of whole Earth    
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composition of crust   silica rish, with basaltic and granitic crusts  
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composition of mantle   (very high in iron and magnesium)  
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composition of Earth's Inner Core   iron-nickel alloy  
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composition of Earth's outer core   iron and nickel  
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compare/contrast; cont. crust/ocean crust   silic (light and light colored) vs. mafic(heavy and dark colored)  
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compare/contrast; crust/mantle   silic and mafic vs. ultramafic  
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compare/contrast; lithosphere/asthenosphere   lithosphere; surface, cooler, more brittle, divided into tectonic plates, contains heavy oceanic basalt and lighter continental rock asthenosphere; deeper, hotter, high pressure and is solid, but flows  
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compare/contrast; intelligent design/natural selection    
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name and locate examples of; convergent ocean-ocean   Mariana trench  
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name and locate examples of; convergent ocean-continenet   left side of south america  
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name and locate examples of; convergent continent-continent   India  
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name and locate examples of; transform ocean-ocean    
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name and locate examples of; transform continent-continent   san andreas fault  
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name and locate examples of; divergent plate boundaries   Atlantic Ocean  
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how do we determine; distance to stars   relative brightness, parallax and distance  
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how do we determine; depth of ocean   sonographs  
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how do we determine; age of ocean crust   magnetism  
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how do we determine; relative age of rock formations   superposition, original horizontality, cross-cutting relationships  
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how do we determine; absolute age of rocks   carbon dating, half lifes  
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darwin's groundbreaking principles   >More offspring are produced than can survive to maturity >variations in form + function exist among offspring >organisms must compete for resources and mate >survival of the fittest! >variations that favor success are passed down  
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