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Earth Science
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1. (Latin- Sol & Greek- Helios)the closest star to Earth. It is a giant ball of gas without any solid surface.
swash and back wash
hemisphere
Sun
mantle
2. To preserve & or to avoid wasteful use.
conserve
thrust fault
island arc
wave trough
3. 1. Breach in a natural levee . 2. Deep crevice or open fracture in glacier ice.
crevasse
current speed
scientific model
solar system
4. The breaking away of ice from the front of the glacier when it ends in a lake or an ocean. Produces icebergs.
calving
sediment
ozone
magnetic pole
5. Glacial deposits laid down directly by glaciers or laid down in lakes & ocean & or streams as result of glacial activity.
fetch
drift
denudation
equator
6. A narrow & steep-walled depression in the ocean floor & much deeper than the adjacent ocean and associated with a subduction zone.
trench
continental slope
cementation
cinder cone
7. A portable time keeper with a mechanism for ensuring accuracy and adjusting itself & used for determining longitude at sea.
marine Chronometer
lava
Venus
sinkhole
8. Water that flows across watersheds during and immediately after severe rainstorms. In populated areas & stormwater runoff is often water that cannot be handled by existing sewer systems. Stormwater runoff is the leading source of water pollution in t
watershed
extrusive
stormwater runoff
lithosphere
9. The tendency of a moving object to continue in a straight line or a stationary object to remain in place.
greenhouse gases
creep
El Nino
inertia
10. One of several rock-forming minerals that contain at least 95% silica (quartz). and usually one or more other common elements.
Proxima Centauri
silicate
reservoir rock
cinder cone
11. The region of a shore that is covered at high tide and exposed at low tide.
moraine
suspended load
Earth system
intertidal zone
12. The galaxy where Earth is located.
compass
fetch
Milky Way
fold
13. A ridge of high water associated with a hurricane and which floods over the shore .
atmosphere
storm surge
drift
outer core
14. A post of dripstone growing up from a cave floor.
sedimentary rock
stalagmite
geothermal energy
tectonic Plates
15. A tool for measuring the relative clarity of water.
drift
triangulation
conserve
secchi disk
16. A lake of lava & usually basaltic & in a volcanic caldera.
Modified Mercalli Scale
Global Positioning System (GPS)
lava lake
epicenter
17. A mound or ridge of sediment deposited by a glacier.
seismoscope
geology
moraine
drought
18. Any accumulation of material & by settling from water or air & chemical precipitation & evaporation from solution & etc.
petroleum
constellation
deposition
seismic sea wave (tsunami)
19. That part of the continental margin that lies between the continental shelf and the continental rise. Slope relatively steep & 3o - 6o. The continental slope is underlain by crustal rocks of the continent.
magma
core
continental slope
seamount
20. Lacking in rainfall & very dry.
erosion
watershed
Saturn
arid
21. A hot & gaseous & self-luminous celestial body & as the Sun.
asteroid
star
deposition
wave crest
22. A broad & deep & generally straight furrow carved in bed rock by the abrasive action of debris embedded in a moving glacier. Larger and deeper than a glacial striation.
atlas
groove
tell
humus
23. An icicle-shaped accumulation of dripstone hanging from cave roof.
chemical sedimentary rock
cartographer
stalactite
Sun
24. The study of earthquakes & and of the structure of the Earth by both natural and artificially generated seismic waves.
drainage divide
seismology
compass
tide
25. A layer of sedimentary rock; plural is strata.
extrusive
lithification
plate
stratum
26. A reverse fault on which the dip angle of the fault plane is 15 degrees or less.
prairie
thrust fault
salinization
Proxima Centauri
27. A lake of lava & usually basaltic & in a volcanic caldera.
lava lake
biogenic sedimentary rock
epicenter
renewable resources
28. Plutonic. Antonym of extrusive. Pertaining to igneous rocks or features formed by the emplacement of magma in pre-existing rocks.
snow line
fetch
foliated
intrusive
29. A rock that has crystallized from a molten state.
igneous rock
pollutant
hardness
bedrock
30. Bent rock strata.
fold
water clarity
intensity
drainage basin
31. An artificial hill formed by the debris of successive human settlements.
tell
plate tectonics
flood
estuary
32. A large area of flat or nearly flat land.
El Nino
equinox
plain
shore
33. The green pigment in the cells of many plants that enables them to use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates in the process called photosynthesis.
terrestrial
compression fossil
convection
chlorophyll
34. A system involving continuous interaction of the solid Earth & the atmosphere & the oceans and living things.
hydrologic cycle
Earth system
ore
longitude
35. Named after the Roman god of the sea. It is the eighth planet from the Sun.
erratic
neptune
nuee ardente
rock cycle
36. 1. A low & bowl-shaped area of land surrounded by higher lands. 2. any large depression in which sediments are deposited.
compass Rose
basin
strip mining
peat
37. Uranus is named after the Roman god of the sky. It is the seventh planet from the Sun.
basalt
Uranus
erratic
plutonic
38. The outermost layer of the Earth & varying in thickness from about 10 kilometers (6 miles) below the oceans & to 65 kilometers (about 40 miles) below the continents; represents less than 1 percent of the Earth's volume.
swells
aftershock
fringing reef
crust
39. No identifiable layers of minerals in a rock sample
nonfoliated
zone of aeration
p- wave (primary wave & compressional wave)
hydrologic cycle
40. A vent on the seafloor from which hydrothermal fluids are emitted. Upon mixing with seawater and cooling & the fluids precipitate a cloud of fine-grained sulfide minerals that resembles a cloud of black smoke.
seismic sea wave (tsunami)
rockslide (rock avalanche)
black smoker
tectonic Plates
41. A small & dust-bearing whirlwind.
seafloor spreading
ecosystem
dust devil
transcontinental
42. A small ice sheet.
fracture
Richter scale
icecap
fluctuate
43. Long narrow beaches separated in many places from the mainland by lagoons.
convergent boundary
barrier beaches
legend
Mercury
44. A major drainage divide separating the drainage to one ocean from another.
continental divide
stratification
casts
dust bowl
45. The zones of seismic activity long which plates are in contact.
outcrop
mesosphere
oceanic trench
plate boundaries
46. The amount of material a stream carries in suspension.
suspended load
isthmus
conserve
elevation
47. A system that uses a constellation of 24 satellites & their ground stations & and individual GPS receivers to accurately locate points on Earth.
p- wave (primary wave & compressional wave)
clast
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Mars
48. A sedimentary rock made up of chemical sediments. Example: rock salt.
epicenter
seismology
liquefaction
chemical sedimentary rock
49. To preserve & or to avoid wasteful use.
conserve
arid
Pelean eruption
spring
50. The processes (mechanical and chemical) responsible for the wearing away & loosening & and dissolving of materials of the Earth's crust.
erosion
eustatic change in sea level
groundtruthing
sedimentary rock