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first geo 1 exam

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heliocentric   show
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show everything revolves around the earth  
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show nuclear clouds flatten and rotate  
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supernova   show
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red shift/blue shift   show
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show 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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show silic and mafic, top layer  
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show the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle  
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show iron alloys, allows plate tectonics  
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outer core   show
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show idk  
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show ugh  
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show ugh  
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polar wander   show
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pangaea   show
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geographic pole vs. magnetic pole   show
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show switching of magnetic poles in layers of rocks  
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show where continent edge is hitting edge of oceanic plate vs. continent edges not hitting other oceanic plates  
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lithosphere   show
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show ductile part of mantly  
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show layers of lava emerging that freezed fsat  
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pillow lavas   show
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show channels of super heated water send back into ocean due to lava flow  
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ophiolite   show
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divergent boundary   show
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show towards  
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transform boundary (transform fault)   show
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show transform thingies  
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intra-plate hot spot   show
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baked contact   show
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original continuity   show
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blocking temperature   show
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Aristotle   show
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Copernicus   show
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show 1800s naturalist, "On the Origin of Species", FATHER OF EVOLUTION  
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show 200-100 BC measured the size of the earth  
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Galileo   show
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Hess   show
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show 1800-1900 proposed convections cells in mantle, which allows plates to move  
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show 1900 discovered light from other galaxies, "redshift meant galaxies were moving away from us  
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show 1700s-1800s identified lines of descent, assumed new structures arose out of need,  
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show 1700's organized living things, father of taxonomy, devised 7-part hierarchy and two part naming system  
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Ptolemy   show
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Leavitt   show
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Newton   show
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show 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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show father of stratigraphy;  
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show discovered DNA mid 1900s  
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show 1800-1900 proposed plate tectonics and pangaea  
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Age of Universe   show
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Age of Sun   show
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Age of Earth   show
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show 4.4 Billion years old  
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show 200 million years old  
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radius of Earth, km   show
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show Mount Everest; 8,848 m Mariana Trench; 10,910 m  
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rates of seafloor spreading, cm/yr   show
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origin of Sun   show
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show 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   show
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cause of ocean   show
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cause of marine magnetic anomalies   show
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cause of variation in species   show
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show oxygen, nitrogen, carbon  
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composition of whole Earth   show
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show silica rish, with basaltic and granitic crusts  
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composition of mantle   show
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show iron-nickel alloy  
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show iron and nickel  
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compare/contrast; cont. crust/ocean crust   show
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show silic and mafic vs. ultramafic  
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show 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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show  
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show Mariana trench  
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show left side of south america  
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name and locate examples of; convergent continent-continent   show
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name and locate examples of; transform ocean-ocean   show
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name and locate examples of; transform continent-continent   show
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name and locate examples of; divergent plate boundaries   show
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how do we determine; distance to stars   show
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show sonographs  
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how do we determine; age of ocean crust   show
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how do we determine; relative age of rock formations   show
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show carbon dating, half lifes  
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darwin's groundbreaking principles   show
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