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How are 99 percent of the buildings heated in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland?

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With geothermal power – from natural hot (140 deg. F) water from an underground reservoir. The water (from Ice Age glaciers trapped by hardened lava from volcanic eruptions) is piped to radiators and hot=-water tanks throughout the city.

Who first proposed that the geological processes occurring now can be used to understand the changes of the past?

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James Hutton.

Bauxite is the ore of which element?

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Aluminum.

What name is given to calcite deposits suspended from cave roofs?

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Stalactites.

What abrasive rock is produced by gases frothing in lava?

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Pumice.

What name is given to a deep crack in a glacier?

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Crevasse

Global warming be damned. The 19th century biologist Louis Agassiz who studied Alpine glaciers was the first to propose that the Earth had been subject what phenomena in the past?

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Ice ages

MARBLE IS A FORM OF WHICH TYPE OF ROCK?

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LIMESTONE

What type of rock is formed by the rapid cooling of molten lava?

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Obsidian

WHAT NAME IS GIVEN TO THE LAYER OF GROUND THAT REMAINS PERMANENTLY FROZEN DESPITE SEASONAL CHANGES IN TEMPERATURE?

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PERMAFROST
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