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Test 1 SCI 225How is solar radiation distributed on Earth's surface? - correct answer hottest towards the equator because of its direct rays hitting the earth directly. What is law of superposition? - correct answer oldest rocks are on the bottom. How can you determine the age of the seafloor? - correct answer The youngest crust of the ocean floor can be found near the seafloor spreading centers or mid-ocean ridges. As the plates split apart, magma rises from below the Earth's surface to...

Rutgers Dinosaurs Exam 1 | Questions and Correct Answers | Latest Update 2024/2025 Nicholas Steno - Answer -This man became a catholic bishop, challenged the tear theory, and is known as the Father of Stratigraphy Law of Original Horizontality - Answer -This principle states sediments are deposited under the influence of gravity as nearly horizontal beds. Law of Superposition - Answer -This principle states that top layers of rock are younger than bottom layers. Law of Faunal (Flaural) ...

SCI 225 Exam 2 How do we know what climate was like in the past? - correct answer Rocks: hundreds of millions Ice cores: hundreds of thousands Louis Aggassiz - correct answer hypothesized that glaciers were carrying rocks down, evidence gathered from people, and glaciers advance HMS Challenger - correct answer ocean dredging, fossils are found in cold and warm areas of the ocean Theory of Glaciation - correct answer Louis Aggasiz found glacial erratics and glacial striations in the E...

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Nicholas Steno Answer This man became a catholic bishop, challenged the tear theory, and is known as the Father of Stratigraphy Law of Original Horizontality Answer This principle states sediments are deposited under the influence of gravity as nearly horizontal beds. Law of Superposition Answer This principle states that top layers of rock are younger than bottom layers. Law of Faunal (Flaural) Succession Answer Sedimentary rock strata contain fossilized flora and fauna that these foss...

SCI 225Hypothesis - correct answer possible explanation that leads to a prediction weather - correct answer Local Climate - correct answer Regional Latitudinal Distribution - correct answer wind, temp, rain, ocean currents Biomes - correct answer Global associations of plants and animals, largely determined by climate, primarily temp. and precipitation Antropogenic - correct answer Human casued Albedo - correct answer reflectivity CO2 - correct answer 412 ppm Law of Super...

Evolution is the unifying concept of biology correct answers Dobzhansky Ophelia Syndrome correct answers Being told what to do or how to think; Thomas Plummer What are the six cures to Ophelia Syndrome? correct answers 1. Seek out great teachers 2. Dare to know and trust yourself 3. Learn to live with uncertainty (Science exists because of what we don't know) 4. Practice dialectical thinking; Put yourself in their shoes 5. Foster idle thinking (Alfred Russel Wallace codiscovered natur...

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_____ implies that each successive layer deposited is younger than the one deposited below, therefore the oldest rocks would be at the bottom of an outcrop and the youngest rock would be at the top of an outcrop, provided the outcrop has not been overturned. - ️️law of superposition A large plutonic mass that encompasses an area over 40,000 square kilometers - ️️batholith A rock composed primarily of quartz, feldspar, and muscovite would be? - ️️Metamorphic A rock resulting from t...