The basic building block of all silicate minerals is the

A. silicate triangular structure.
B. crystalline silicate sulfur.
C. silicate tetrahedron.
D. silicate cleavage direction.


Answer: C

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A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E

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The Coriolis effect deflects a moving object in the Northern Hemisphere ____________ from its expected

path Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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In the Northern Hemisphere, ocean currents in the Atlantic and the Pacific move in a generally circular pattern. The direction of this motion is ____ in the Atlantic and ____ in the Pacific

A) clockwise; counterclockwise B) counterclockwise; counterclockwise C) clockwise; clockwise D) counterclockwise; clockwise

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What stimulated the new field of science called oceanography?

a. The results of the HMS Beagle expedition b. The naturalist Alexander Agassiz c. Samples and information from the Challenger expedition d. The United States Exploring Expedition's discovery of new species

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