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- Is it true ⬦ Earths atmosphere is transparent to electromagnetic radiation
- SY. visible light SN. Gama radiation or x-rays
- Is it true that … Earth’s earthquakes and volcanoes are randomly located across its surface?
- N
- Is it true that … Earth’s lithosphere is composed of crust & mantle rocks?
- Y
- Is it true that … a holistic understanding of how earth works requires the study of how the earth’s surface interacts with the atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere?
- Y
- Is it true that ⬦ volcanic island arcs forming over a subduction zone show an age progression from one end of the arc to the other?
- N
- Is it true that water boils at 100 degrees C?
- S. Depends on the pressure
- Is it true that temp. is a measure of heat?
- N
- Is it true that radiometric dating works because the rate of decay of the radioactive atoms is constant?
- N
- Is it true that the depth of a young greater than 80MA oceanic crust is related to its age?
- Y
- Is it true that ⬦ continental landmasses plow through ocean basins like ice breakers cutting through sea ice?
- N
- Is it true that ⬦ compression, tension and shear are fundamentally different kinds of stress?
- N
- Is it true we live on a terrane derived from Gondwana?
- Y
- Is it true that phaneritic (coarse-grained) igneous rocks are intrusive igneous rocks?
- SY- Intrusive Body SN- Thick Lava Flow
- Is it true that a well-graded sediment is a poorly sorted sediment?
- Y
- Is it true that really big eruptions are really infrequent eruptions?
- Y
- Is it true that slaty cleavage is produced the same way as mineral cleavage, a plane f weakness in the crystallographic lattice?
- N
- Is it true that the term “clay refers to grain sizes having diameters smaller than 1/256th of a milimetre?
- SY- Geologists SN- Engineers
- Is it true that the higher the energy of a depositional environment as measure by the water velocity, the larger the grain sizes that can be transported?
- Y
- Is it true that volcanoes are randomly located across the Earth’s surface?
- N
- Is it true that mechanical weathering increases the surface area of a volume of rock even though the total volume of rock remains constant?
- N
- Is it true that radiometric dating works because the rate of decay remains constant with respect to time?
- N
- Is it true that mafic rocks typically are dark colored?
- Y
- Is it true that the shortest path between two points will be the fastest path between those points?
- SY- Long path SN- Short Path
- Is it true that fossils are the remains of animals?
- SY- Animal remains SN- Plant remains
- Is it true that rocks are composed of minerals?
- SY- Whole mineral rock- Granite SN- Obsidian
- Is it true that increasing the concentration of the greenhouse gas CO2 in the atmosphere will decrease the pH level and accelerate chemical weathering?
- Y
- Is it true that the principle of superposition can be applied to igneous rocks?
- SY- Lava Flows SN- Intrusive Bodies