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Which living organism does not have a nucleus with the cell ~ Prokaryotes What is the Eon before the presence of life ~ Hadean Eon Mammals were first seen during the _____ period ~ Tertiary The T-Rex existed in the ____ period ~ Cretaceous The lifeforms of the Ediacaran couldn't survive due...

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APSC151 Midterm Questions
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How old is the earth


✓✓✓✓~ 4.6 Billion years




The Precambrian Era Accounts for ____% of Earth's History


✓✓✓✓~ 88%




Pangea was


✓✓✓✓~ A supercontinent




The ____ forms the relatively cool, brittle plates of plate tectonics


✓✓✓✓~ Lithosphere




New seafloor is created at _____ plate boundaries


✓✓✓✓~ Diverging




The San Andreas fault in California is a good example of what?

,✓✓✓✓~ Transform plates




The _____ is the thinnest layer of the Earth


✓✓✓✓~ Lithosphere




The composition of the Earth's core is thought to be composed of ____.


✓✓✓✓~ Iron and Nickle




The ____, about 100km thick is the coldest, most rigid and most brittle layer in

the Earth


✓✓✓✓~ Lithosphere




As a self-contained planet, Earth is divided into several interacting systems

called the ____.


✓✓✓✓~ Biosphere, Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Geosphere




Most lithium used on earth comes from ____


✓✓✓✓~ Salt flats




What basic atomic particle occupy space outside of the nucleus

,✓✓✓✓~ Electrons




An atom's atomic number is 92 and its atomic mass is 238, what is the number

of neutrons?


✓✓✓✓~ 146




In ___ type of bonding one atom gives up electrons to another.


✓✓✓✓~ Ionic




The two main types of bonding that form the structures in minerals are ____.


✓✓✓✓~ Covalent, Ionic




_____ is the expression of orderly internal arrangement of atoms in a mineral

crystal.


✓✓✓✓~ Crystal Habit




The true colour of a mineral as seen in it's powdered powdered form is called

it's___


✓✓✓✓~ Streak

, The strong tendencies of certain MINERALS to break along parallel planes is

called ____


✓✓✓✓~ Cleavage




The tendency for minerals such as quartz to break in a smoothly curved manner

is called ___.


✓✓✓✓~ Conchoidal Fracture




What is a polymorph?


✓✓✓✓~ Elements that join together in more than 1 way




Which of these is NOT a physical property of crystals?


✓✓✓✓~ Stability




____ is the ratio of a weight of mineral to a volume of water of equal weight.


✓✓✓✓~ Specific Gravity




The main use of bauxite is ___.


✓✓✓✓~ Aluminum production

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