Which of the following is an important long-term (i.e., spans tens of millions of years) factor in global climate change?

How are carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere affected by tectonic uplift of rocks and their resultant chemical weathering?

The geotherm is the rate of change of ________.

A blogger writes that global warming is not real, noting that his or her city had its coldest ever-recorded temperature last winter. The correct statement would be that the blogger is ________.

The mineral class that makes up >95% of the continental crust is termed the ________.

Calcite (CaCO3) is in which mineral class?

The Moho ________.

The image below shows a mineral specimen of quartz. What is the term for the smoothly curving, clamshell-shaped surface on the sample below?

Which earthquake scale measures the amplitude of deflection of a seismograph pen, standardized to an idealized distance of 100 km between the epicenter and the seismograph?

An important contribution made by Copernicus is his (correct) assertion that the ________.