Volcanoes that do NOT occur along either present or emergent plate boundaries are associated with ________.

Continental coastlines that occur within the interior of a tectonic plate are called ________ margins.

The warmest global temperatures since the last ice age occurred in the ________.

A runaway greenhouse effect is an example of ________.

Milankovitch cycles describe variation in Earth’s ________.

Distinctive rock sequences on South America terminate at the Atlantic Ocean but reappear on the continent of ________.

Where can icy bodies left over from the protoplanetary disk that formed our Solar System long after the Big Bang be found?

The San Andreas Fault zone in California is an example of a ________ plate boundary.

The color of a mineral in powdered form is termed ________.

With increasing distance from a mid-ocean ridge, the age of oceanic crust ________.