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• What is a mineral assemblage?
  
• What plate boundary is a normal fault similar to?
  
• How is the weather like in areas that have high air pressures?
  
• Question #16f9b
  
• What can be said about an igneous rock with larger crystals compared to one with smaller crystals?
  
• What's the difference between geologic column and geologic time scale?
  
• What is the name of the main chemical substance in limestone?
  
• What is the length of a day?
  
• Question #a1312
  
• What happens to solar radiation when it enters the atmosphere?
  
• Is the rock cycle on Earth a closed system?
  
• Where is the location of most volcanoes?
  
• How are granite and rhyolite the same, and how do they differ?
  
• What igneous rocks are porphyritic?
  
• What happens to the solar radiation that is not reflected back into space?
  
• In relative fossil dating, where will the oldest fossils be found?
  
• What are some of the limits of radiometric dating techniques?
  
• What is the world's highest mountain?
  
• How will plate tectonics change hawaii in the future?
  
• Why are fossils formed in sedimentary rocks?
  
• Which gases were so light they escaped the gravitational pull of early Earth?
  
• With what type of weather is rising air associated?
  
• How do solve the following linear system?: # 4y-16=x , x-2y=8 #?
  
• How do you solve the system y = -x+2 and y= 3x-2?
  
• What color is galena? What is its luster?
  
• How far is earth from the asteroid belt in the solar system?
  
• What provides the mechanism by which mantle rocks melt and magma is produced?
  
• What rocks form at a High Intensity of Metamorphism?
  
• Why do things that enter a black hole disappear?
  
• Assume that the overall size of the earth's crust stays the same. If one plate is pushing away from the plate next to it on one side, what must be happening at the boundary with another plate on the opposite side?
  
• Which plate is more dense, the continental or the oceanic?
  
• Why couldn't earth's water have come from comets?
  
• Suppose you are studying the motion of one of Earth's plates. What units would you probabiy use to describe its speed?
  
• How are metamorphic rocks classified?
  
• What types of volcanoes are located in the ring of fire?
  
• What is the size of earth's crust?
  
• Lava comes out of a hole in the ground. What is the hole called?
  
• How do you measure the decay of radioactive isotopes?
  
• How does absolute age differ from relative age?
  
• What type of non-silicate mineral group does calcite belong to?
  
• What is the difference between absolute age and relative age of fossils?
  
• How did land first form on Earth?
  
• What force holds the atmosphere in place as Earth travels through space?
  
• The continental crust is made largely of what rock?
  
• What causes different climates in different parts of the world?
  
• What are some examples of igneous rocks that are plutonic?
  
• How do minerals change without melting?
  
• What is a cirque and how are they produced?
  
• How can a mineral display both cleavage and fracture?