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Put the following images in the correct order of stellar evolution of a low/medium mass star?
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II, I, IV, III
II, I, IV, III
I, II, III, IV
I, III, IV, II
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Which of the following is the oldest layer?
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Put the following images in the correct order of stellar evolution of a low/medium mass star?
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Which of the following is the oldest layer?
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Which of the following law states at that a layer of rock that cuts through other layers will be younger than the layers it cuts through?
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Which of the following correctly explains why cosmic microwave background radiation is evidence for the Big Bang Theory?
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Which of the following statements BEST explains why nuclear fusion is important
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Which correctly contrasts the following celestial bodies?
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What is one cause of the shape of an analemma?
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Using the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, what can you definitively interpret about a star?
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What is the first phase in any star's life cycle?
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The half-life of C14 is about 5700 years. In a sample of rock, the parent to daughter ratio is 1:3. How old is the specimen?
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This is a model demonstrating Kepler's Laws. If you were to use the same loop of string to draw an ellipse around each set of foci, which set would have the MOST eccentric ellipse?
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Which of the following is a significant piece of evidence that supports the Nebular Hypothesis?
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According to Kepler's First law, the pattern that the the planets orbit in is due to...
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An anthropologist claims that he uncovered a specimen that is 1.6 billion years old. It contains 93.75% of a daughter isotope and 6.25% of the parent. If the half-life is 15 million years, is his claim valid?
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Which of the following unconformities is cause by metamorphic rock?
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According to the geothermal gradient, Earth's internal temperature...
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Which of the following layers is the youngest?
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Which of the following is the LEAST reliable physical property to identify a mineral with?
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What mineral group is largely composed of oxygen and a metal?
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What is the industrial importance of silicates?
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What is the final process that creates sedimentary rock?
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If magma cools inside of the Earth, what characteristics will the igneous rock have?
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Which of the following developed the principle of uniformitarianism and discovered the Earth was much older than previous thought?
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Which of the following was not evidence for Alfred Wegner's theory of continental drift?
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What is the difference between weathering and erosion
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What geological formation is caused by the collision of two continental plates?
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What type of boundary causes a mid-ocean ridge to form
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Which of the following is being formed when an ocean plate collides with a continental plate?
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What is the distance from the epicenter is a seismograph has the following data? P waves= 1:04:07 S waves= 1:06:35. Equation= (time lag in seconds/8 seconds)*120 km
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What could increase the rate of wind erosion in an area?
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Counties near rivers track the rate of erosion by water to track how much land is lost per year due to this process. A county on the Leaf River and a county on the Pearl River have about the same rate of erosion. However, there was a dramatic change in the Leaf River's rate from June to July. The Leaf River's rate of erosion was much higher than the Pearl River's. What most likely caused this change?
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Which of the following is NOT true about P waves and Earth's interior?
