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What is the world's population to the nearest half billion?
7.5 billion
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name both seismic waves that are body waves
P and S waves
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What type of deformation occurs in materials once the elastic limit has been exceeded?
Plastic
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Name a low-grade foliated metamorphic rock! :)
SLATE
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What is a wineglass valley
It is formed from the moraines and erosion from a glacier from the collected till from the ice
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what are the two fundamental characteristics of a mineral that distinguish it from other minerals?
chemical composition and crystalline structure
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Marble is mainly made up of what material?
calcite
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According to the IPCC report limiting global warming 1.5 C would require reaching net zero by what year?
2050
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What is the age of the earth?
4.54 billion years
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Objects with high albedo tend to
reflect solar radiation
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