[125A] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (39 pages long!)
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Ratio of volume to surface area dictates the speed at which it can cool. Bigger r means more volume to store the heat and less surface area for the heat to escape. Big planets stay warm longer, small planets cool down quickly. Venus and earth have liquid cores, more volcanic activity. Sun and moon"s gravity drags the continents along. Plate is drifting with mantle beneath, and has cracks that allows lava to flow upward (magma chambers) Sedimentary forms at bottom of seas and swamp. Type of rock where most fossils are found. Igneous and sedimentary rock transformed by pressure and heat. Fossils help determine relative age of rock found in different places. All isotopes of an element are identical i. e. they can form the same chemical compounds: ex: c-12, c-13, c-14. C-12 is carbon element, c-13 is stable isotope, c- 14 is radioactive: ratio of c-12 to c-14 in atmosphere is equal.
