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Clemson Geology 1010 - Exam #1 Latest Update Rated A principles claims something that has been proven - known to all as correct scientific method observation, questions, hypothesis, collect data, and evaluation hypothesis educated guess; "if-then" statement. needs to be testable; be predictive theories hypothesis but now has a lot of data supporting it; tested for years law essentially correct (always an exception) geology study of earth catastrophism everything was caused by 6 catastrop...

Natural Event Geological or atmospheric processes involving the release of energy and has nothing to do with people. Geological is due to the hot interior of the Earth and can be expressed as volcanoes. Atmospheric type of energy is the product of solar energy which can be expressed as tornadoes. Characteristics of a Natural Disaster (5) geological, atmospheric, magnitude, frequency, duration, areal extent Recurrence interval time between same sized events (150 years) frequency 1/recurrenc...

How is Earth's atmosphere different from other planets? - Abundance of nitrogen and oxygen What is the hydrosphere? - All the water on earth contained within the water cycle. Includes oceans, rivers, lakes, glaciers, groundwater, and evaporated water. What allows Earth to have a cyclical hydrosphere? - Earth's distance from the sun keeps the water on Earth's surface liquid. What is the Biosphere? - All life contained on Earth, this includes us, all animals, insects, and plants. Earth's...

cleavage directions ~ 1 (ex. Muscovite) 2 @ 90 degrees (ex. orthoclase) 2 not @ 90 degrees (ex. amphibole) 3 @ 90 degrees (ex. halite) 3 not @ 90 degrees (ex. calcite) 4 (ex. fluorite) fracture ~ - Absence of cleavage when a mineral is broken *Conchoidal fracture* - breaks to form smooth curved surfaces like broken glass specific gravity ~ - Ration of the weight of a mineral to the weight of an equal volume of water - Average value is approximately between 2.5 and 3 magnetism ~...

The Earth is made up of mostly what two elements? Oxygen and Silicon Silicon has a charge of +4 Oxygen has a charge of -2 Silicate minerals most common mineral on Earth; compose over 95% of the continental crust. Consist of combinations of a fundamental building block called silicon-oxygen tetrahedron, different groups: independent tetrahedra, single chains, double chains, sheet silicates, framework silicates. tetrahedron The prefix "tetra" means 4 therefore the central atom has four...

How is Earth's atmosphere different from other planets? - Abundance of nitrogen and oxygen What is the hydrosphere? - All the water on earth contained within the water cycle. Includes oceans, rivers, lakes, glaciers, groundwater, and evaporated water. What allows Earth to have a cyclical hydrosphere? - Earth's distance from the sun keeps the water on Earth's surface liquid. What is the Biosphere? - All life contained on Earth, this includes us, all animals, insects, and plants. Earth's...

Fungi - Answer-cell wall made of chitin; Eukaryote Algae - Answer-cell wall made of silicates, eukaryotic Protozoa - Answer-Eukaryote Bacteria - Answer-Prokaryotic Virus - Answer-Acellular; only reproduce if they are inside of a living cell What allows a substance to cross a membrane - Answer-Protiens Substances that will never pass through a membrane - Answer-Charged substances Passive movement processes - Answer-No ATP needed 1. Diffusion 2. Facilitaed Diffusion 3. Osmosis Active Tr...

Asbestos Study Question and answers already passed 2023/2024Name four characteristics of asbestos - correct answer Naturally occurring, fibrous, hydrated, mineral and silicates What type of asbestos is the fibrous serpentine - correct answer chrysotile (white asbestos) Name the 5 amphiboles - correct answer Amosite Tremolite Actinolite Crocidolite Anthopyllite Name physical properties of asbestos - correct answer fire resistant

EAS exam 1 questions & answers 2023-24 torrential mudflow of wet volcanic debris is called - ANSWER-lahar shallow focus earthquakes are associated w which type of plate boundary? - ANSWER-convergent, transform, divergent what type of mineral is pyrite - ANSWER-sulfide chemical formula (Mg,Fe)2SiO4 describes what mineral - ANSWER-olivine which volcanic flows moves the most rapidly - ANSWER-pyroclastic flows most common rock-forming minerals in the crust are - ANSWER-silicates ...

Science Bowl Practice Questions With Verified And Updated Answers Math; Multiple Choice: If the determinant of a matix is zero, the matix is said to be W.) an Eigen-matrix X.) singular Y.) invertible Z.) Gaussian - answerX.) singular Math; Multiple Choice: Matrix multiplication differs from scalar multiplication in that matrix multiplication is not W.) commutative X.) associative Y.) distributed over addition Z.) well-defined - answerW.) commutative Physics; Multiple Choice: materia...