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Cards in this guide (10)
What do geologists think happened during the last ice age

Sea levels dropped 300 feet.

A land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska

What happened at the end of the Mesozoic era but did not happen at the end of the Paleozoic era

There were major asteroid impacts.

Which of the following describes the exponential growth of a species

The rate of population increase stays constant.

At which location is dynamic metamorphism most likely to occur

Transform boundary

Having a weakness along a specific plane will allow a mineral to

cleave

Which type of power production produces the least amount of greenhouse gases

Nuclear.

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Which best explains how natural gas deposits formed

Pressure from sediment turned decaying plankton at the bottom of the ocean into natural gas.

Which of the following is true of passive continental margins

they have a continental rise

What 3 collisions occur at a convergent boundary

Oceanic-continental convergent boundary, Oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary, and Continental-continental convergent boundary.

What happens at a convergent boundary

A convergent plate boundary is a location where two tectonic plates are moving toward each other, often causing one plate to slide below the others.

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