Contrast oceanic and continental crust
What will be an ideal response?
Oceanic crust is thinner, denser, and darker in color than continental crust and is composed of the igneous rock, basalt. Continental crust is thicker, less dense, and lighter in color than oceanic crust, and its average composition is the igneous rock granite.
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If Earth had no atmosphere, ________
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The A-B split is:
a) the split between the ideal and the material. b) the split between attitudes and behaviors. c) the difference between what people say they value and believe, and how they act. d) all of the above.