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{Yes or No, Extraterrestrial radiation sources only irradiate the surface of the Earth at night. - Yes + No
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{Complete the text: Match up the form or type of volcano with the volcano: Mount Somma - A Mount Hikbok-Hikbok - B Mount Redoubt - C Mount Pinatubo - D El Chichon - E Mount Tambora - F { D (i) }. { B (i) }. { F (i) }. { A (i) }. { E (i) } { C (i) }.
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{Yes or No, Deposits of large landslides are mapped around the Hawaiian volcanoes by sidescan sonar. + Yes - No
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{Which geological phenomena are associated with Earth? + lava-spewing volcanoes - sulfur volcanoes + plate tectonics + water oceans - liquid methane oceans + silicate minerals
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{True or False, Most of the ocean floor is made of basalt. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which chemical phenomenon are associated with the Earth? + quartz is the second most abundant mineral + an atmosphere containing CO2 + green, red, blue, and yellow airglow + the production and escape of hot H+ ions + oxygen emissions + helium ions
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{True or False, The visible path of a meteoroid that has entered the Earth's atmosphere is called a meteorite. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Considering that many rock types bear a striking resemblance to meteorites which are the one or few ways to differentiate a meteorite from a terrestrial rock? + chondrules - the Ca/Si ratio - the Al/Si ratio - enstatite rather than diopside + oxygen isotope ratios + observed orbit and fall with verified recovery
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{Meteorites found on Earth may be from which of the following? - Saturn - Mercury + the Moon + the asteroid belt - Jupiter + Mars
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{Yes or No, Meteors become visible between about 75 to 120 kilometers (34 - 70 miles) above the Earth. + Yes - No
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{Complete the text: A rocky object is any object, including astronomical { objects (i) }, composed of one or more types of { rocks (i) }.
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{Yes or No, A skydiver may have captured the first film ever of a meteorite plunging down at terminal velocity. + Yes - No
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{A terrestrial planet is composed primarily of? { silicate rocks|metals|silicates (i) }
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{Yes or No, Shield volcanoes, such as those that make up the Islands of Hawai`i, are composed almost entirely of basalt. + Yes - No
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{On 19 May 1910, the Earth actually passed through the tail of what comet. { Halley's (i) }
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{True or False, An oxygen isotope discrepancy was noted forty years ago in a stony meteorite that exploded over Pueblito de Allende, Mexico. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following are associated with greenstone belts? + metamorphosed mafic sequences + ultramafic volcanic sequences + Archaean and Proterozoic cratons + chlorite - Humphreys series - Rydberg series + green hue of metamorphic minerals
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{Yes or No, Tanzanite is found only in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. + Yes - No
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{Any remnants of the natural phenomena and processes associated with the action of volcanoes, geysers and fumaroles, especially any remnants of past volcanic activity, are called? { volcanism (i) }
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{Yes or No, Hauyne, haüyne or hauynite occurs in Vesuvian lavas in Monte Somma, Italy. + Yes - No
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{Yes or No, In contrast to the Proterozoic, Archean rocks are often heavily metamorphized deep-water sediments, such as graywackes, mudstones, volcanic sediments and banded iron formations. + Yes - No
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{Yes or No, Orpiment is an orange to yellow mineral that is found worldwide on Earth, and occurs as a sublimation product in volcanic fumaroles, low temperature hydrothermal veins, hot springs and as a byproduct of the decay of another arsenic mineral, realgar. + Yes - No
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{Yes or No, The word "volcano" is used to refer to the opening from which molten rock and gas issue from Earth's interior onto the surface, and also to the cone, hill, or mountain built up around the opening by the eruptive products. + Yes - No
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{True or False, Volcanoes occur on every continent on Earth, under its oceans, and on many other astronomical rocky objects. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Green earth is a natural pigment composed of what likely source of green? { magnesium (i) }
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{Yes or No, Hominins have been aware of volcanic activity in this planet since ancient times. + Yes - No
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{Which of the following are rocky objects? + micrometeorites - andesite - fluorite + Leonid Meteor Shower + NWA 6963 + lavabomb - cristobalite + Phobos and Deimos
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{Yes or No, The Hopi Buttes volcanic field consists of ~300 late Miocene volcanic centers within ~ 1800 km2 of the field, located in northeastern Arizona. + Yes - No
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Hypotheses

 * 1) Rocky objects should have rocks all the way through.