What is a great circle? What are small circles?

What will be an ideal response?


A great circle is any circle of Earth's circumference whose center coincides with the center of Earth. All other circles on Earth constitute small circles.

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Which locations contain rocks that are in place (part of the bedrock)? 

A. 1 and 3 B. 1 and 2 C. 3 and 4 D. 2 and 4 E. 2 and 3

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How does the ocean change with increasing depth?

A) It gets darker, warmer, and contains more organisms. B) It gets darker and warmer, pressure decreases and it contains more organisms. C) It gets darker and colder, pressure increases and it contains fewer organisms. D) It doesn't change in a consistent way.

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Compare the Taconic, Caledonian, and Acadian orogenies in terms of the tectonic forces that

caused them and the sedimentary features that resulted. What will be an ideal response?

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Identify the physical mineral property described. "This property depends on the smoothness of the mineral surface at the atomic scale, or how mobile electrons are within the crystal."

A) cleavage B) luster C) streak D) color

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