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[Chapter 3. What Is the Earth Made Of?] Cinnabar (HgS) is in the same mineral class as ________.

[Chapter 17. Winds of the World: Global and Local Wind Systems] The subtropical jet stream exists as a result of the boundary between a __________; the polar-front jet stream exists as a result of the boundary between __________.

[Chapter 14. Ocean Waters: The Blue of the Blue Planet] What prevents the individual water masses from becoming one single water mass?

[Chapter 8 and 9: Geological Time and Geological History] The difference between relative and numerical ages is that relative age is _______.

[Chapter  19. Climate and Climate Change] Which of the following best describes the relationship between sea-level change and climate change?

[Chapter 7. A Violent Pulse: Earthquakes] An earthquake occurs with an epicenter in the town of New Madrid, Missouri, in the interior of the North American Plate. Where might the hypocenter of this earthquake plausibly be found?

[Chapter 8 and 9: Geological Time and Geological History]  Sedimentary rocks overlie a basement of older intrusive igneous or metamorphic rocks in a(n) _____.

[Chapter 5. The Rest of the Rock Cycle: Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks] Which of the following must take place before a sedimentary basin can be formed?

[Chapter 16. The Air We Breathe: Introducing the Earth’s Atmosphere] When scientists discuss the great oxygenation event, they are referring to a time when ______.

[Chapter 5. The Rest of the Rock Cycle: Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks] Garnet schist, which formed from shale (both pictured below), expresses which key feature of metamorphic rocks.?