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Historical Geology - Correlation and Dating
What are steno s principles,
What is superposition,
What is original horizontality
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Historical Geology - Evolution
What is evolution,
What was jean baptiste lamarck ba...,
What was darwin s basic theory
38
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Historical Geology - Plate Tectonics
What is continental drift,
Describe early evidence for conti...,
How many major plates are there
15
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Historical Geology - Chemical Cycles
What is a chemical reservoir,
What is a feedback mechanism,
What is carbon
22
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Historical Geology - Earth as a system
Describe the scientific method,
How do we test hypotheses,
Describe the meteoric impact at t...
11
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Historical Geology - Diversity of Life
What is life,
What is a taxon,
What is taxonomy
20
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Historical Geology - Environmental Diversity
What is ecology,
What is a niche,
What is a population
36
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Historical Geology - Sedimentary environments - terrestrial
What are depositional environments,
What do we mean by sediment entra...,
What are continental depositional...
11
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Historical Geology - Sedimentary environments - marginal marine
What is a marginal marine deposit...,
Name the three delta depositional...,
How are barrier islands formed
22
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Historical Geology - Hadean and Archean
How is the hadean eon described,
Explain the accretion disk,
Explain stratification of the earth
23
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Historical Geology - Proterozoic Eon
Where does the understanding of a...,
What was the atmosphere like duri...,
How do scientist think banded iro...
18
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Historical Geology - Paliozoic (Cambrian Explosion)
What do we mean when we refer to ...,
When did the first hard parts on ...,
Why were the development of hard ...
21
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Historical Geology - Paliozoic continued (1 & 2)
What was going on in terms of dis...,
Describe the cambrian palaeogeogr...,
What major change occurred during...
16
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Historical Geology - Paliozoic Tetrapods and Permo Triassic
What were the challenges of leavi...,
Describe the transformation of an...,
What provides independence from w...
8
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Historical Geology - Mesozoic
Discuss the global palaeogeograph...,
Name some recovery taxa from the ...,
Name the new reef builders in the...
13
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Historical Geology - The end-Cretaceous Extinction Event
What happens in the end cretaceou...,
What happens in the end cretaceou...,
What happens in the end cretaceou...
12
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Historical Geology - The Cenzoic
What is the cenzoic era,
How did the ocean recover from th...,
What were the major shifts in cet...
9
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