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Chapter 2 -- Understanding Earth
What are the principal sub system...,
The study of earth other planets ...,
What is a rock 2
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Chapter 3 -- Minerals: The building blocks of rocks.
A substance that cannot be split ...,
Anything that has mass and occupi...,
Smallest particle that still reta...
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Ch.4 Igneous Rocks and Intrusive Igneous Activity
Magma that reaches the surface 0,
Molten rock material below the su...,
Material from the forceful erupti...
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Chapter 6 -- Weathering, Erosion and Soil
Involves removing weathered mater...,
Is the mechanical and chemical al...,
As rocks break down through diffe...
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Chapter 7 -- Metamorphism
Which agent of metamorphism is pr...,
The process that changes either t...,
What agent of metamorphism is pro...
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Chapter 12 -- Running Water
The hydrologic cycle 1st event in...,
What is running waters main role ...,
The hydrologic cycle 2nd event ra...
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Chapter 13 -- Ground Waßer
All subsurface water trapped in t...,
The percentage of a materials vol...,
The measure of the interconnected...
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Chapter 11 -- Mass Wasting
Mass wasting includes these 7 thi...,
Is the downslope of movement of m...,
Slopes shear strength 2
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Chapter 14 -- Glaciers and Glaciation
99 of glacial ice is in _______ a...,
A mass of compacted and recrystal...,
Long narrow tongues of ice 2
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Chapter 15 -- Deserts and Stuff
An area with less than cm inches ...,
The expansion of deserts into for...,
Signs of desertification 6 2
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Chapter 16 -- Shore and Shoreline Process
The area from low tide to the hig...,
Regular fluctuations of the sea i...,
27million x smaller than the sun 2
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Chapter 2 -- Plate Tectonics
A theory that the earth s surface...,
He postulated that all landmasses...,
____ ___ proposed the theory of s...
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Chapter 10 -- Deformation, Mountain Building, and the Continents
_________ is the force applied to...,
Any change in the shape or volume...,
_________ is the change in shape ...
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