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| loss or gain of heat when ice melts |
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| loss or gain of heat when water freezes |
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| causes late spring and fall in southern new england |
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| makes sea water salty with dissolved substances |
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| universal solvent property |
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| helps hold biological cells together within thin cell membrane |
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| loss or gain of heat when water evaporates |
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| latent heat of vaporization |
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| highest of all common liquids |
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| increases with decreasing temp, down to 4C |
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| helps explain narrow range of temp change occuring near ocean compared to interior regions |
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| important in global heat and water transfer in the atmosphere |
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| latent heat of vaporization |
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| loss of gain of heat when humidity condenses |
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| latent heat of vaporization |
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| sets the atmosphere in motion |
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| latent heat of vaporization |
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| keeps temp of polar areas w/in narrow range |
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| preferred form of inorganic nitrogen for marine algae |
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| required for the shells of diatoms |
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| nitrogen junk food for marine algae |
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| form of inorganic nitrogen that allos for population growth of microscopic marine plants |
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| recycled form of nitrogen in near-surface waters |
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| stable form of nitrogen found in deep ocean waters |
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| in redfield ratio, it is the 16 |
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| in redfield ratio, it is the 1 |
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| needed to make amino acids |
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| place where africa joined europe |
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| place where india joined asia |
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| place where each hawaiian island was formed |
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| place where new crustal rock is made |
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| place where old crustal rock is destroyed |
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| boundary b/w north american plate and pacific plate |
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| alfred wegeners incorrect proposed mechanism for continental drift |
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| northern continents of pangaea |
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| southern continents of pangaea |
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| maximum age of most oceanic crust |
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| east african rift valleys |
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| divergent plate boundaries |
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| convergent plate boundaries |
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| divergent plate boundaries |
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| collision that builds mountains |
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| convergent plate boundaries |
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| divergent plate boundaries |
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| convergent plate boundaries |
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| divergent plate boundaries |
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| convergent plate boundaries |
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| divergent plate boundaries |
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| convergent plate boundaries |
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| transform plate boundaries |
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| convergent plate boundaries |
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| site of sea floor spreading |
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| divergent plate boundaries |
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| place where new sea floor is created |
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| divergent plate boundaries |
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| place where old sea floor is destroyed |
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| convergent plate boundaries |
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| caused by coastal erosion |
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| fragments of asteroids or comets |
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| dissolved at depths deeper than the CCD |
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| found on sea floor beneath warm surface water at low latitudes |
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| found under upwelling zones |
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| found on sea floor beneath cool surface with in high latitudes |
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| found on sea floor along mid ocean ridges |
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| form of inorganic nitrogen that allows for growth of marine algae |
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| nutrient in detergent that causes eutrophication when sewage discharges into lakes |
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| limiting nutrient in fresh water |
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| there was a single continent, pangaea |
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| many present day continents were scattered and barely recognizable |
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| time of northern hemisphere glaciation |
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| time of permian-triassis mass extinction |
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| continents began to come toegteher to form pangaea |
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| anatomically modern humans present |
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| tethys ocean circumglobal |
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| central american isthmus formed |
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| time of cretaceous tertiary mass extinc |
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| what cause cretatious-tertiary mass extinction? |
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| who survived the K-T extinctoin and who did not? |
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-survived: some plants, small animals, avian dinosaurs
-died: most dinosaurs, most large organisms, etc. 2/3 all plant and animal species. |
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| how was the k-t extinction discovered? |
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-sediment core samples from sea floor
-high iridium levels
-crater in gulf of mexico |
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| what caused permian triassic extinction 250 mill yrs ago? |
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-could have been meteor impact
-maybe volcano |
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