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Exploring Earth's History: Rocks, Weather, and Space

Dive into the fascinating worlds of rocks, weather patterns, and celestial bodies with this comprehensive guide. Learn about metamorphic rocks, weather phenomena, Earth's rotation, and more!

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Exploring Earth's History: Rocks, Weather, and Space

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  1. Rocks Weather Space Earth’s History Other 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt

  2. What type of rock contains banding, foliation and distortion?

  3. Metamorphic

  4. What type of igneous rock is lighter in color and lower in density?

  5. Felsic

  6. What sedimentary rock is clastic and made up of 0.0004 to 0.006?

  7. Siltstone

  8. What is the color and type of rock that forms oceanic crust at mid-ocean ridges?

  9. dark colored and igneous or mafic

  10. What do mineral properties depend on?

  11. internal arrangement of atoms

  12. What drives all weather?

  13. Unequal heating

  14. What does it mean when isobars are close together?

  15. Fast winds

  16. What type of front moves faster?

  17. Cold fronts

  18. Precipitation, change in temperature, and wind direction indicates what?

  19. The passing of a front

  20. What is a region of atmosphere with uniform temperature and humidity?

  21. An air mass

  22. How many degrees per hour does Earth rotate?

  23. 15 degrees

  24. What does a foucault pendelum indicate?

  25. Earth’s rotation around the sun

  26. In what season is Earth closest to the sun?

  27. Winter

  28. How many moon phases are there?

  29. Eight

  30. What kind of eclipse occurs when the full moon moves into Earth’s shadow?

  31. Lunar eclipse

  32. In what period did the earliest birds evolve?

  33. Jurassic

  34. What type of trilobite existed during the Devonian?

  35. Phacops

  36. What is the most reliable method to determine whether two rock layers one hundred miles apart are the same age?

  37. Both layers contain the same group of index fossils

  38. What is supporting evidence of Pangaea?

  39. All the continents fit together like a puzzle

  40. A fossil shell contains 25% of its original amount of carbon-14. Approximately when did the animal that made the shell live?

  41. 5,700 years ago

  42. What is the number one agent of erosion?

  43. Streams

  44. What always has 12 hours of daylight?

  45. The Equator

  46. What color and surface absorbs energy the best?

  47. Black and rough surfaces

  48. Which seismic wave travels faster?

  49. P waves

  50. What makes U shaped valleys?

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