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Along a large cone-shaped volcano, a ________ drainage network is expected.

If a geologist found preserved mud cracks, he or she could conclude that the environment in which they formed ________.

The difference between magma and lava is ________.

The image below shows ________, where a hot liquid rises into a cooler material, and heat then conducts from the hot liquid into the cooler material.

For the majority of minerals, the streak color obtained when the mineral is scratched against a porcelain plate is ________.

An igneous rock with a mixed texture of coarse crystals (phenocrysts) surrounded by fine crystals (groundmass) is termed ________.

Summed over the entire surface of Earth, the rate of spreading at divergent boundaries is ________ lithospheric consumption at subduction zones.

The density of rocks is generally related to composition. Which of the following choices places rock compositions in order of increasing density?

According to the Big Bang theory, ________.

The branch of science that studies the structure and history of the Universe is ________.