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CSET Science: Geology
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1. Plate tectonic boundaries where plates sllide horizontally pass each other and cause friction

2. A fossil that is caused when the skeleton of a dead animal or plant is covered in sand and water and rock and decays over time - leaving a hollow print of the skeleton

3. The degree that a mineral reflects light

4. The process in which plates move and shift

5. A mixture of gas consisting of oxygen and nitrogen that wraps the earth like a blanket

6. A basic type of landform that produces water - forms wind barriers

7. The way that water returns to earth by flowing on the surface into streams - lakes - and rivers

8. Era from 570 to 245 million years ago with the explosion of animal diversity followed by the wiping out of 99 percent of planetary life thanks to an asteroid. Pangea rises.

9. The limited supply of water there is

10. Areas where oceanic earthquakes can occur when an ocean plate hits a continental plate and eventually goes underneath

11. The process in which water changes from liquid to gas

12. Era from 2.5 billion to 570 million years ago when the continents formed and oxygen began. The first eukaryotic cells appear.

13. The different ways a species can evolve

14. All plants and animals have to compete for food - water - space and the fear of being eaten

15. The form that water returns to earth as - like rain - snow - sleet - and hail

16. Rocks that are formed through major changes like heat like plate movements and they cool down

17. Soft and plastic layer of the mantle that allows plate tectonics to move

18. Era from 3.8 to 2.5 biillion years ago with the beginning of the geologic record and the formation of the first forms of rocks and bacteria

19. A natural disaster caused by pressure deep within the Earth that splits the ground

20. Solid and extremely hot layer of the mantle that protects the core

21. Volcano that occurs at divergent plates in underwater plates and creates lava from a mineral called basalt

22. Remnant of an organism. They are found underground and are at least several thousands years old

23. Also known as primary waves - these are the fastest seismic waves and the first to be detected. They compress and expand both liquid and solid rock as they move through it

24. Fossil in which a part of the organism that has been preserved

25. Organisms - like plants - that take more carbon out of the atmosphere than put into it

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