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1
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What are Talus Slopes the result of?

A

Mechanical Weathering

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What are rock products of weathering?

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Quartz, Feldspar, Amphibole,Olivine

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What does the A horizon consist of?

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Organic and Rich Soil

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What does the E horizon consist of?

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mineral Accumulation

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What is Spherodical weathering?

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Rock Decay that turns the rocks more spherical

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6
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What does the B horizon consist of?

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clay and other materials washed down from horizon A

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7
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What does the C horizon consist of?

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Weathered Bedrock

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8
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what does the bottom level of soil composition consist of?

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parents material and bedrock

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9
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earth flow

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When earth material moves down a hillside as a fluid like mass from heavy rain fall. Often has a ripple effect.

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10
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What are talus slopes the result of

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Mechanical Weathering

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11
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What type of water is acidic

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ground water

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12
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What can break up limestone

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hyrochloric acid

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13
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What is an example of foliation and weathering

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Yosemite, which is a giant batholith

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14
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What type of weathering is a result of tree sap

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Chemical Weathering

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15
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What does the O horizon consist of?

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DUFF

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slump

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A type of mass movement that occurs when a mass of material moves down a curved slope. Can develop from slope and can develop onto a landslide the more it lubricates

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17
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lahar

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volcanic mudflow

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18
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debris flow

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from over saturation of land. Made of clay material and can be very violent like a flood.

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Rockslide

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occurs when a mass of rock slides rapidly downslope along planes of weakness

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20
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fast mass wasting

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gravity-induced downslope movement of Earth material that people can witness directly

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21
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What is the main feature of a Slump

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the slip face

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22
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What forms from earth flows

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ridges or ripples

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23
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How to fix soil creeps

A

installing retaining walls

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24
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What are the three types Erosion

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Wind, water, ice

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25
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What is the most destructive type of erosion

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water

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26
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What are ways that rivers are ranked

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Drainage area and discharge

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27
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What generates all water on earth

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the water cycle

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28
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whats the water cycle

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evaporation, condensation, precipitation, run off (accumulation)

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29
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How much water on Earth is freshwater?

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4%

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30
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How much water on Earth is Saltwater?

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96%

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31
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two types of stream development

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erosion and deposition

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32
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suspended load (lowest)

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silt

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33
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suspended load (2nd lowest)

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clay

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34
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suspended load (2nd Highest)

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sand

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35
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suspended load (highest)

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gravels

36
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suspended load

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the fine sediment carried within the body of flowing water

37
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bedrock stream consists of

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cobbles, gravels, boulders

38
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Where does the bedrock stream often start

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highland areas

39
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where are all rivers try to go

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sea level/ base level. In the process, little rivers all come together to one rive

40
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where do rivers recharge

A

mountains, hills, or areas of high elevation

41
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Aquifers

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a body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.

42
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what are the two types of aquifers

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confined and unconfined

43
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what type of aquifers are typical of river floodplains

A

unconfined

44
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What happens to sinkholes as the earth continues to sink?

A

the earth aboves slowly starts to cave in

45
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Karst landscape

A

A landscape that is characterized by numerous caves, sinkholes, fissures, and underground streams

46
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What happens to a Karst Topography as the stream cuts through it?

A

the water table lowers

47
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What are Karst Towers.

A

A type of land that goes unaffected by erosion leaving large tower like structures

48
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The principle of Superposition

A

Older rocks are on the bottom and younger ones are at the top

49
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what is the basis for relative and absolute dating

A

the principle of superposition

50
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What does a rocks thickness help determine

A

How old it is

51
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What color indicates that there is a lot of iron in a rock

A

red

52
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What is the youngest type of fossils

A

plants and seashells

53
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Relative dating

A

fossils, faults, igneous intrusions

54
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Absolute Dating

A

atmoic considerations and the half-life of radioactive elements

55
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What does Uranium 238 decay into

A

Lead 206

56
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What is the half life of Uranium 238

A

4.5 billion years

57
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What does Uranium 235 turn into

A

lead 207

58
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What is the half life of Uranium 235

A

713 million years

59
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What does Thorium 232 decay into

A

lead 208

60
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what is the half life of Thorium 232

A

14.1 billion years

61
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What does rubidium 87 decay into

A

stronium 87

62
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what is the half life of rubidium 87

A

46 billion years

63
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whats does potassium 40 decay into

A

Argon 40

64
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what is the half life of potassium 40

A

1.3 billion years

65
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What is the earliest stage in geological time e

A

Precambrian

66
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where did life on earth start

A

mid-ocean ridges

67
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what most likely brought proteins to earth

A

asteroids

68
Q

What percentage of the early atmosphere contained oxygen

A

2%

69
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characteristics of prokaryotes

A

has no nucleus, has DNA, has flagellum

70
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Eubacteria

A

does not need xygen

71
Q

What is the origin of Eukaryotes

A

it starts as a prokaryote with no nucleus, but as bacteria comes in, it turns into a Eukaryote

72
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What are the two types of Eukaryotes

A

Plants and Animals

73
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What are the two types of Eukaryotes

A

Plants and Animals

74
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What era brought an explosion of life

A

Cambrian

75
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What was the first animal called

A

pikaia

76
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the first cambrian fossil was that

A

trilobite

77
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what is our state fossil

A

crinoid

78
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how many extinctions occured in history

A

5

79
Q

what saw the start of plant life

A

silurian

80
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gymnosperms

A

non flowering plants with uncased seeds

81
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Angiosperms

A

flowering plants with enclosed seeds

82
Q

What is the defining factor of the Devonian era

A

fish. lots of fish

83
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what did fish originally have that they don’t have now

A

bones

84
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how did fish start coming onto land

A

fins started to develop into feet

85
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what is the causes of most extinctions

A

volcanoes

86
Q

what was Missouri like in Mississippian times

A

shallow water all throughout the state and center of continent

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