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Science: E & S Test 6

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What is the very slow downslope movement of soil and rock fragments
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Oceanographers usually measure hydrostatic pressure in the metric unit
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What are the circular paths that ocean currents move
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The idea that understanding modern geological processes is the key to understanding the earth's geological history
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What type of tides occurs when there is one high tide and one low tide each day
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What idea states that the fittest and strongest organisms are most likely to survive and reproduce
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Deepest known point in the sea
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A submersible consisting of a crew compartment suspended from a float
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The dangerous currents formed when large amounts of water from waves surge out to the sea through a break in a sandbar are
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What gemstone consists of corundum with traces of iron and titanium that give it a distinctive blue color
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What type of weathering involves the breaking or peeling away of rock into layers
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What is the scientific term for the volume of the portion of the skull that includes the brain (chp 5)
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At the end of the sandy, underwater plain that borders the land, a sharp drop-off marks the beginning of of the ?
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Hills that form when advancing glaciers overrun old piles of till are called
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What is the top layer of soil, which contains most of the organic substances and nutrients, called
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Fossils used by evolutionists to date rock layers
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In an experiment, a variable observed to determine the results of what kind of variable
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The way light is reflected from the surface of mineral
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What is a circular coral-reef island that grows around an underwater volcano