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Earth Science
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1. The pattern of water circulation from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean.
drainage basin
Paleozoic
sand dune
hydrologic cycle
2. The line separating land and water.
shoreline
continental crust
gravity
aquatic
3. A collection of maps.
atlas
erratic
mesosphere
inertia
4. In a stream & the volume of water passing through a channel in a given time.
casts
transcontinental
discharge
salinization
5. An era of geologic time lasting from 570 to 245 million years ago.
Paleozoic
arch
sand dune
sediment
6. A roughly circular reef with an occasional small & low & coral sand island surrounding a shallow lagoon.
geyser
mesosphere
atoll
clast
7. A region of high heat flow on the Earth's surface & thought to lie above a mantle plume .
volcano
clastic
hot spot
aftershock
8. Sediments produced directly by the life processes of plants or animals.
biogenic sediment
seismograph
universe
watershed
9. Living on land.
terrestrial
till (unstratified drift)
pahoehoe
Mars
10. Living in water.
shield volcano
pH
natural resources
aquatic
11. The processes of weathering by which physical actions such as frost wedging break down a rock into fragments & involving no chemical change.
plain
disintegration (mechanical weathering)
runoff
hardpan
12. A narrow & steep-walled depression in the ocean floor & much deeper than the adjacent ocean and associated with a subduction zone.
plate boundaries
trench
conserve
beach
13. A major drainage divide separating the drainage to one ocean from another.
fringing reef
moon
continental divide
plate
14. The dust-sized & sharp-edged & glassy particles resulting from an explosive volcanic eruption.
s- wave (secondary wave & shear wave)
reserves
volcanic ash
collisional Boundary
15. A supercontinent that existed from the Jurassic to Early Tertiary after splitting from Pangea; composed of Laurentia & Baltica & Avalonia & (modern North America & Scandinavia & Greenland & Western and Central Europe); eventually fragmented into Eur
snow line
galaxy
meander
Laurasia
16. A building that contains one or more telescopes.
habitat
observator
s- wave (secondary wave & shear wave)
asthenosphere
17. The prediction that climate will warm as a result of the addition to the atmosphere of humanly produced greenhouse gases.
abundant metal
Proterozoic
volcanic
global warming
18. A mound or ridge of sediment deposited by a glacier.
stratovolcano (composite volcano)
urban
Proxima Centauri
moraine
19. A waterway from open ocean into a lagoon.
tidal inlet
seastack
steppe
chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's)
20. A wall built out from the shore & usually at perpendicular to it to trap sand carried by longshore currents .
transform boundary
groin
Pangea
telescope
21. A valley caused by extension of the Earth's crust. Its floor forms as a portion of the crust moves downward along normal faults.
Copernicus & Nicholas
channelization
salinization
rift (graben)
22. Pertaining to clastic material formed by volcanic explosion or aerial expulsion from a volcanic vent.
shoreline
pyroclastic
humus
sinkhole
23. A small & dust-bearing whirlwind.
seastack
wind farm
escarpment
dust devil
24. Deserts in zones of descending air between 25 degrees and 30 degrees north and south latitude.
luster
pH
subtropical deserts
region
25. Iron & aluminum & magnesium & manganese & and titanium. Ores of the abundant metals only need to be 3 - 5 times as metal-rich as average rock.
drainage basin
precipitation
compaction
abundant metal
26. Bent rock strata.
watershed
drift
aftershock
fold
27. A sea level change due to change in load on Earth's crust.
abyssal plain
beach
isostatic change in sea level
rapids
28. A seismic body wave that involves particle motion & alternating compression and expansion & in the direction of wave propagation. It is the fastest seismic wave. compare S-wave .
sediment
p- wave (primary wave & compressional wave)
anemometer
seastack
29. A type of disintegration in which jointed rock is forced apart by the expansion of water as it freezes in fractures.
fold and thrust mountains
hot spot
open pit mining
frost wedging
30. A valley carved by glacier erosion and whose cross-valley profile has steep sides and a nearly flat floor & suggestive of a large letter 'you'.
terrestrial
you-shaped valley
sod
Phanerozoic
31. A community of plants and/or animals and its physical environment & regarded as a unit.
elevation
comet
ecosystem
light-year
32. A process of erosion in which wind carries off particles of dust and sand.
flash flood
deflation
tidal inlet
seamount
33. The area bordering a stream over which water spreads when the stream tops its channel banks.
abundant metal
specific gravity
Jupiter
floodplain
34. A natural depression in the surface of the land caused by the collapse of the roof of a cavern or subterranean passage & generally occurring in limestone regions.
stalactite
transcontinental
superposition
sinkhole
35. A chuck of rock or dust in space.
region
meteoroid
humus
ore
36. The level of light that penetrates through water.
water clarity
siltation
convection cell
till (unstratified drift)
37. Pluto is named after the Roman god of the Underworld. No longer considered a planet.
Pluto
aftershock
foliated
bedrock
38. Swamp that forms in the low lying flood plain behind a levee.
stalactite
trench
lava
back swamp
39. Any porous and permeable rock that yields oil or natural gas.
casts
volcanic
reservoir rock
Milky Way
40. The attractive force between two objects; its magnitude depends on their masses and the distance between them.
intensity
snow line
gravity
Gondwana
41. A broad & mound-like mass of glacier ice that usually spreads radially outward from a central zone.
inertia
ice sheet
seafloor spreading
drainage divide
42. Lava extruded beneath water characterized by pillow shapes.
Precambrian
streak
Pillow Lava
stormwater runoff
43. Property possessed by certain rocks of breaking with relative ease along parallel planes or nearly parallel surfaces in their crystal structures where the bonds are weakest.
glaciation
cleavage
ice sheet
Prime Meridian
44. A roughly circular reef with an occasional small & low & coral sand island surrounding a shallow lagoon.
collisional Boundary
calving
atoll
eustatic change in sea level
45. A dense & hot (sometimes incandescent) cloud of volcanic ash and gas produced in a Pelean eruption.
lava flood (plateau basalt)
stratovolcano (composite volcano)
s- wave (secondary wave & shear wave)
nuee ardente
46. Living in water.
wave height
archaean
Jupiter
aquatic
47. A continuous well-defined mass of material of sufficient ore content to make extraction economically feasible. compare mineral deposit.
ore deposit
equator
continental divide
denudation
48. A term applied to large areas of basaltic lava presumably extruded from fissures.
erratic
lava flood (plateau basalt)
icecap
black smoker
49. Jupiter is named after the Roman king of the gods. It is the fifth planet from the Sun.
crystal
stratification
acid
Jupiter
50. (Greek-Aphrodite)named after the Roman goddess of love. It is the planet closest in size to Earth and the second planted from the Sun.
Venus
isostasy
humid
geothermal energy