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How many oxygen atoms are being shared between the silicate tetrahedral muscovite sheets? -
(answers)three
P-waves_______ as they travel through the outer core. - (answers)decelerate
Who was one of the lone survivors from the St. Pierre Nuee ardente - (answers)Raoul Sarteret
Why is East Africa so high? - (answers)upwelling of the asthenosphere is heating the base of the
rifting continent at this location.
Where do we find goethite and hematite together in a soil? - (answers)where the water table
fluctuates near the surface.
What is the most common mineral in igneous rocks near the surface of the earth? -
(answers)feldspars
Where do earthquakes occur in the Pacific Northwest? - (answers)within the North American
plate, within the Juna de Fuca plate, at the Cascadia subduction zone
all of the following types of weathering reduce the size of rocks without changing their chemical
makeup except:
a. frost wedging
b. hydrolysis
, c. thermal expansion and contraction
d. mechanical exfoliation - (answers)hydrolysis
Where is chemical weathering most dominant: - (answers)tropical climates
A ____________ facing slope in the Puget Lowland would tend to have the strongest soil
development - (answers)southerly
A ____________ facing slope in Phoenix, Arizona would tend to have the strongest soil
development. - (answers)northerly
The A horizon of a soil _______________. - (answers)is the zone of removal, tends to be darker
in color than the underlying horizons, contains humus (decomposed organic matter).
As soil age increases ________________. - (answers)the horizon profile becomes thicker, clay
content in the B horizon increases, the soil becomes redder
The greatest volcanic risk from Mt. Rainier is from _____________. - (answers)lahar flows
Frost wedging would be most prominent in: - (answers)mid-latitude regions where temperature
fluctuate around the freezing temperature during certain seasons.
The single most important factor controlling chemical weathering processes is: - (answers)water
The dissolution of limestone to form caves results from water combining with: - (answers)carbon
dioxide to form carbonic acid
Symmetric ripples form from _____________. - (answers)wave oscillation