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What percent of the solar energy reaching the top of the atmosphere passes through the atmosphere and is absorbed at Earth’s surface?

What term denotes blocks of older rock enclosed in a body of younger igneous rock?

The best-known features on the surface of the Sun are dark blemishes called ________.

For a radiometric date to be useful, which of the following is true?

Which of the following geologic observations would not bear directly on working out the sequence of geologic events in an area?

Feedback mechanisms that produce results that are just the opposite of the initial change are called ________.

What percent of the solar energy reaching the top of the atmosphere passes through the atmosphere and is absorbed at Earth’s surface?

What are the solid and liquid particles suspended within the atmosphere called?

When younger sedimentary strata overlie an eroded surface of older metamorphic or intrusive igneous rocks, this is called a(n) ________.

Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay are ________.