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What is liquid water below freezing point.
Super cooled water
What does wind tend to do in the Corliss effect.
It curves
What has the greatest effect on wind.
Friction(When in contact with ground)
What measures Wind speed.
Anemometer
With the Celsius scale how many degrees is it between freezing and boiling point.
100°
What does God command us to have over the Earth.
Dominion
What is a renewable source of energy That does not create pollution.
Wind turbines
What is the most direct way to measure sea level.
Tidal gauge
What is considered the rain forest sea.
Coral reef
What differs from place to place.
Local sea level
What is Sections of water more or less surrounded by land.
Seas
What is in oceanographer.
A Marine scientist
What is well mixed rocks sand dirt ect. (sediments).
Till or glacier Till
What shape is a glaciated Valley.
U Shaped
What is the downhill movement of rocks and soil.
Mass wasting.
What is the difference between mass wasting and an avalanche.
Avalanche- Downhill movement of snow or ice
Mass wasting- Downhill movement of soil and rocks
What type of your is a fossil fuel and came from land plants.
Coal
Origin of species was written by who.
Charles Darwin
What is mineralized Tree sap that may contain fossils.
Amber
After animal has died and his left there were weeks or months What happens to it.
decay ,decomposition or scavengers
What is a Marine reptiles ( Jobs behemoth)
Ichthyosaurs
Limestone becomes what after metamorphism.
Marble
What time of limestone is used as building material.
Concrete
Where is the world's largest granite quarry located.
Vermont
What kind of Rock is rock Bonded fragments
Sedimentary rock
What kind of rock is Hardened/Cool lava.
Igneous rock
What is a rock is been changed from one rock to another.
Metamorphic
The original lock that was altered to form a metamorphic rock is the.
Source rock
Fossils are usually found in what type of rock.
Sedimentary
According to the rock cycle models what was starting material in cycle.
Molten magma.
Young Earth geologist believe that the original original basement rock of the earth continents was
Granite
The brilliance the diamond is due to its high index of.
Cleavage
What is when land absorbs suns energy faster than water.
Seabreeze
What is the global sea level currently doing.
Rising
What is the largest ocean.
Pacific
What is safe to drink water called.
Potable water.
Fertile soil contains what
Organic materials
Scientist to study swell soil formation and erosion are.
Pedologists(soil scientist)
What is a sudden glacial movement.
Glacier surge
Brook ,river, rivulet is another name for what
Stream
Who created the classification system of organisms.
Charles Linnaeus
What is the study of fossils.
Paleontology
What type of igneous rock floats in water.
pumas
What type of test do use to classify rocks
Radiation test
What is the study of rocks their classification and their history.
Petrology(person who studies it petrologist)
What is the process by which droplets join together and grow to one raindrops to form hail.
Coalescence
What is a tide that occurs monthly and is lower than normal.
Neap tides
What kind of tide occurs monthly and is higher than normal.
Spring tide
What is a big buildup of water or a heap of water.
Tidal bulge. (On test question may be little different)
What is a shallow submerged edge of land from the Beach offshore
Continental shelf
What is a large mass of dense compacted snow and ice it flows downhill under the influence of gravity.
Glacier
What is a mechanical weathering process in which water traps in cracks and pores of rocks freezes and expands creating fragments rock.
Frost wedging
A coarse-grained igneous rock with very large interlocked crystals.
pegmatite
Cole what type of rock.
Metamorphic
Carbon dioxide a product of the combustion of fossil fuels has been linked to global warming and as result has been called and blank gas.
Greenhouse
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Science exam semester 2
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Chapters 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 19
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2013-05-25T22:39:44Z
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