Summary: Geoscience

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  • forcing a pipe into sea floor to dig up sediment is a process called

    core sampling
  • the volcanic outgassing rose from the earth from partial melting of the earth's interior, became the earth's water is known as the

    iron catastrophe
  • data gathering that is done objectively and not subjectively and in measurements is called

    observation
  • a body of knowledge acquired via the scientific method is

    science
  • what are the scientific methods of investigation

    1.observation (data gathering)
    2.generation of hypothesis
    3.test hypothesis (experiments)
    4.theory emerges (evaluation)
  • dating the earth by counting the sediment layers from the deepest sea floor and up is called

    radiometric dating
  • radiometric dating starts where on the ocean floor

    at the youngest spot, the mid valley ridge
  • an idea/hypothesis that has been formulated and tested over decades is called a

    theory
  • a pure substance comprised of atoms w/ same # of protons is a

    element
  • an event of decaying radioactive isotopes is called

    radioactive decay
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