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_____ sediments are minerals that have precipitated out of water.

_____ are one of the surface expressions of plumes of magma rising from relatively stationary sources of heat in the mantle.

Bathymetry is the _____.

The top of Mt. Everest, the world’s highest peak, is composed of _____.

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge _____.

The “fossil,” or remanent, magnetic field of a rock, is known as _____.

The transfer of energy between materials of different temperatures is called _____. 

Suppose A and B are events in a sample space S, and P (A|B) = 1/2 and P (B) = 1/3. What is P (A ∩B)?(Enter the number only)

The angular shape of the water molecule makes it electrically asymmetrical, or _____.

Very few areas along the ocean floor are altogether free of overlying sediment. What could be the reason sediment does not collect in these areas?