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6 most common hemical elements in the earths crust

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  1. oxygen
  2. silicon
  3. Aluminum
  4. Iron
  5. calcium
  6. sodium
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what percentage of the earths crust does oxygen make up?

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50%

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what percentage of the earths crust does silicon make up?

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25%

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what percentage of the earths crust does Aluminum make up?

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8%

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what percentage of the earths crust does Iron make up?

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5%

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what percentage of the earths crust does calcium make up?

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4%

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what percentage of the earths crust does sodium make up?

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3%

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7 most common minerals in the earths crust

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  1. quartz
  2. calcite [limestone/ marble]
  3. feldspar
  4. mica
  5. clay [kaolin]
  6. ferromanesium
  7. hematite [iron rust]
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MOH’s hardness scale

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2

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what does the rock cycle show

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how one rock can be changed into another type

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rock cycle

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see card

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12
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bowens reaction series shows what?

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how igneous rock are formed from molten rock

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igneous [fire formed]

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2

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sedimentary [settled]

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2

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metamorphic [changed]

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2

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16
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mineral

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naturally occuring, solid, inorganic, chemical element or compound

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rock

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mixture of one or more minerals

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18
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focus

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where earthquake occurs

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cause of earthquake

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over long periods pressure builds at a crust fault as it tries to move. when the strength of water saturated rocks is exceeded the rocks slip or they break and then rebound sending out S.P.I. and R shock waves.

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plate tactonics theory

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rigid lithosphere plates move on top of plastic athenosphere diven by athenosphere riven by heat conviction currents.

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the plate tactonics theory is supported by

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  1. jigsaw continent fit
  2. global positioning
  3. satellite measurements
  4. plots of the locations of volcanos and quakes which give the outlines of plates
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primary wave is fastests at about how many miles a second ?

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about 4 mi/sec

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secondary wave goes how fast

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about 2 mi/sec

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in what direction does the primary wave vibrate?

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in travel direction

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in what direction does the secondary wave vibrate?
at right angles to the direction of travel
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what do the primary and secondary waves go through?
Earth
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what does damage depend upon?
1. length of time quaking, 2. power of quake shake, 3. location near poopulation centers 4. soil type
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which type of soil is more dangerous silty, fine textured soil or rocky clay-like soils
silty, fine textured soil is much more dangerous than rocky and clay-like soils
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plate motion subduction explains what?
1. volcanos 2. all of the motions (subduction, strike slip, moving apart) 3. earthquakes 4. fault block mountains
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the great size of the plates explains what?
long thin belts of moutains
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mountain building process
1. volcano 2. folding 3. fault-block thrust
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Fossil is evidence of past life
1. part of actual organism- bone, shel, ect. 2. cast mold of organism part-impression of shell, bone, ect. 3. Evidence past activity-footprint, wormhole, ect.waspnest
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physical weathering
is breaking and moving by force and friction
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chemical weathering
is producing a less durable new substance
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water table
is level below which the pores in the soil and rocks are filled/saturated with water
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some methods of dating
1. concentrations of radioactive isotopes and their products in rocks or wood 2. index fossil in rock. An index fossil lived and became extinct during a time period established by radioactive dating 3. named rock layer, for example jurrassic, whose age has been previosly determined by radioactivity
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The age of the universe is determined using
1. the big bang theory 2. red shift of most distant star galaxy cluster 3. hubble constant
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age of earth has been determined by what?
hundreds of methods each giving a different age
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the most widely used age of earth is
4.5 billion years
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the most widely used age of earth is based upon the uranium content of meterorites assuming what?
1. the first formed uranium-235 was no more than half the total uranium 2. the amount of the first-formed lead isotope not from radioactive decay in iron meteorites is the same as that in earth rocks 3. and that the amount of lead isotope from radioactive decay in stony meteorites is the same as that in earth rocks
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To calculate any age from radioactivity you need to know
1. radioactive half-life of isotope being used 2. rock was a closed system meaning no addition or removal of isotopes since the rock was first made 3. origiinal isotope concentration 4. present isotope concentration
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what is the criterion for determining what is more complex
in biochemistry the energy controlling protien cytochrome-c can be analyzed giving the order of the aminio acids that form the protien
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determining an age is simlar to answering this question
traveling in a car going 60 mph, west [rate of isotope decay] on 1-40 through jackson [ present concentration] how far [age] have i traveled?
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Evolution is usually defined as
spontaneous life from non-life and usually invokes the progression from simple to complex. "that clock on the wall made itself from dirt and air.
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what is the criterion for determining what is more complex?
in bio chemistry the energy controlling the protien cyto chrome c can be analyzed giving the order of the minio acids that form the protien. cytochrome c is a 100 aminio acid protien found in living cells. there is no evidence of progression from simple to complex [evolution]
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fault block thrust
see card
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strike slip
[sideways] see picture on card
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subduction
[going under] see card
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three main soil components
1. sand 2. clay 3. loam
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the lungfish
fish that can leave water and walk on land has fully developed lungs and fully developed gills. there is no intermediate lung-gill organ. as would be expected in an evolved fish.
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primodial soup
aminio accids

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