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| Weathering is the disintegration of rocks into mineral particles or the dissolution of rocks in water |
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| Where is weathering more common and why? |
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| Near the ground, because plants, gravity, and precipitation need it more. |
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| What is physical weathering? |
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| Without changing the chemical compositions (freeze thaw cycles, break rock apart) |
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| Where is physical weathering more dominant? |
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| What is chemical weathering? |
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| Where it changes the chemical composition (chemical reactions disintegrate rock) |
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| Where is chemical weathering more dominant? |
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| What are the main forces that work on a slope or inclined surface? |
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| coercion, friction, gravity |
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| Which approach helps pull particles away from the slope? |
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| The continuing dissolution of rock minerals into water creates this landscape with caves and sinkholes |
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| Where are karst landscapes most often found? |
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| Areas of the world underlain by extensive layers of limestone. Florida, Indiana, and the Yucatan Peninsula. |
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| Approx. what % of the Earth's surface has Karst features? |
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| What are stalactites and stalagmites? |
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Stalactites grow from the ceiling and stalagmites build from the ground. (C for ceiling) (G for ground) |
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| What are the major processes of physical weathering (3)? |
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1)Frost Action 2)Crystallization 3)Biological Forces |
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| What are the major processes of chemical weathering(3)? |
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1) Hydrolysis 2)Oxidation 3)Carbonation and Solution |
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| What is mass movement? AKA mass wasting |
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| applies to a movement of a body of material propelled and controlled by gravity |
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| What are the different mass movement processes? |
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MES-Mudflow, Earthflow,Solifunction LS-Landslide,Slump RC-Rockfall, creep |
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| What are the classifying factors of mass movement processes? |
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| speed and moisture content |
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| What is a mid-oceanic ridge? |
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interconnected mountain chain about 64 km (40 mi) long and 1000 km wide. 40 mi long and 400 mi wide |
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| are mid-ocean ridges convergent or divergent boundary? |
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| It’s a divergent boundary. |
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| What is a subduction zone? |
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| the deepest places in the oceans |
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| is the subduction zone a convergent or divergent boundary? |
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It’s a convergent boundary |
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| Where can you expect new crust generation – subduction zone or mid-oceanic ridge? |
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| individual sites of upwelling material arriving at the surface as tall plumes from the mantle |
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| How is a sunspot different from subduction zone or mid-oceanic ridge? |
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| they remain fixed as the plates slide over them |
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| Is it possible to date sea-floor? How? ( |
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yes, through the magnetic particles which are stored in the new erupted magma. |
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| What is the relationship between the axis of a mid-oceanic ridge and age of the sea-floor? |
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) as you move away from axis the age is older |
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| Give examples of continental-continental, |
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| Masses of colliding continental crust are subjected to intense folding. NO rising magma |
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| it occurs along the pacific coast of the american continent |
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| oceanic-oceanic orogenesis |
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| Rising magma creates underwater volcanoes that eventually reach the surface |
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| What kind of boundary produces volcanic islands arcs and chains?(Japan, Indonesia) |
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| Oceanic Plate-Oceanic Plate |
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| How is normal fault different from a reverse fault? |
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| reverse fault that has low angles. |
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| How can you measure earthquakes? |
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| Seismic waves with two scales including intensity and magnitude |
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| Point on the surface directly above the focus |
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| subsurface area along the fault plane where the motion of seismic waves originate |
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| What is the role of a producer? |
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| produce their own food using CO2 as their source of carbon |
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| Organisms depending on producers or other consumers for their carbon source |
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| What is the difference between a symbiotic and a parasitic relationship? |
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| symbiotic-both animals are organisms that benefit from eachother…parasitic only one benefits |
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| What is ecological succession? |
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| Succession may be initiated either by formation of new, unoccupied habitat |
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| What is food web/chain? Learn about the distribution of energy and/or food and pollutants in a food web |
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| From producers>consumers>decomposers |
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| What do you mean by a limiting factor? |
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| a physical or chemical abiotic component taht inhibits biotic operations through lack or excess |
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| organisms that share the same foods are said to be in the same trophic level |
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| What are the different trophic levels? |
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| Primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers |
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| What are the biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem? |
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| Biotic is living and adbiotic is non living |
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| What are the essential components of photosynthesis? |
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| water, light, carbon dioxide |
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| What is primary productivity? |
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| net photosynthesis of a plant community |
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| What are the controlling factors of primary productivity? |
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energy, moisture content, insulation, |
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| When is there upwelling of the ridges? |
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| What areas of descending crust? |
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| How many crusts is earth divided into? |
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| 14 plates (7 are largely than others) |
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| Which plates slide laterally with respect to each other at right angles to a sea floor spreading center? |
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