earth science!!!
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- geology
- study of the earth\'s surface and it\'s interior
- astronomy
- study of the universe
- meteorology
- study of the earth\'s atmosphere
- oceanography
- study of the oceans
- impermeability
- when a liquid cannot pass through a substance
- permeability
- when water can pass through a substance
- zone or saturation
- the section of the ground where all pore spaces are filled
- zone of aration
- the area between the zone of saturation and the surface
- shale
- is a common type of impermeable rock
- sandstone
- common type of permeable rock
- limestone
- common type of permeable rock that acid dissolves
- 98% of earth\'s water is stored
- in oceans
- groundwater
- and freshwater lakes/ streams provide usable water for us
- porosity
- the amount of space that is porous in rock
- run off
- when water cannot infiltrate into the ground
- water cycle
- mocved of water
- when sediment has the same sized grains
- sorted
- when sediment has many sized grains
- unsorted
- sediments have a low porosity
- unsorted/angular
- sediments have a high porosity
- sorted/rounded
- the acid that dissolves limestone bedrock, causing caves
- carbonic
- region characterized by sinks, sinkhole ponds, and lost rivers
- karst
- when parts of a cave roof collapse and depressions form
- sink hole
- \"icicles\" of calcite that form from the ceiling and hang downward in a cave
- stalactites
- formed from the accumulation of stalactites dripping onto the ground below it
- stalagmites
- 3 reasons water runoff occur on land
- saturation impermeable to steep
- at the mid atlatnic ridges, plates are moving in what direction
- away from each other
- hawaiian islands are formed over what feature
- hot spot
- ring of fire circles what body of water
- pacific
- insturment used to measure seismic activity
- seismograph
- volcanic activity is mos commonly associated when what type of plate boundary
- convergent
- 3 main types of plate boundaries
- divergent[moving away from each other] convergent[moving toward each other] transform[passing eachother]
- theory of plate tectonics about earth\'s crust
- constantly moving and make up of plates
- melted rock underground
- magma
- study of the formation and movement of plates
- plate tectonics
- outer most layer of the earth
- crust
- the layer of the earth that consists of the crust and rigid mantle
- lithosphere
- the driving force behind plate tectonics
- convection
- german scientest who propsed the theory of continental drift
- alfred wegener
- places where earthquakes and volcanoes occur
- plate boundaries
- scale of earthquake magnitude
- richter
- flattest location on earth
- abyssal plain
- currents in northern hemisphere rotate in which direction
- counter clockwise
- five major oceans
- pacific atlantic indian antarttic artic
- deepest parts of ocean are associated with what parts of plate boundaries
- convergent
- major gases of the atmosphere are..
- oxygen argon nitrogen
- boundary between each layer of the atmosphere
- pause
- instrument used to measure humidity
- psychormeter
- instrument used to measure temperature
- thermometer
- instrument used to measure air pressure
- barometer
- name for cloud on earths surface
- fog
- high clouds formed of ice crystals
- cirrus
- clouds that most often are associated with thunderstorms
- cumulous numbous
- absorbes 99% of the harmful ultraviolet rays
- ozone layer
- weight of the atmosphere per unit area
- air pressure
- icy rock fragment traveling in space
- comet
- the bigger the star
- the brighter the star
- a red star will have
- a cooler temperature
- brightest star... north star..
- sirius polaris