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Earth Science
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1. An area in which a large number of windmills have been erected to generate electrical power.
hemisphere
natural resources
aquifer
wind farm
2. Water beneath the Earth's surface.
ground water
steppe
precipitation
channelization
3. The oldest eon in Earth history & extending from the origin of the Earth to about 3.9 billion years ago.
acid
Hadean
wave length
spring
4. The point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the focus of an earthquake.
aa
scale
nebula
epicenter
5. A segment of an active fault zone that has not experienced a major earthquake during a time period when most other segments of the zone have. They are generally regarded as having a higher potential for future earthquakes.
drought
foreshock
compaction
seismic gap
6. A permeable region of rock or soil through which ground water can move.
aquifer
delta
granitic
scientific model
7. The rise and fall of sea level caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon on the Earth.
ground moraine
continental divide
tide
wave crest
8. A worldwide change in sea level & such as caused by melting glaciers.
eon
prairie
eustatic change in sea level
epicenter
9. The line formed by the intersection of the axial plane of a fold with a bedding plane & marking where the bed shows its maximum curvature.
Proxima Centauri
zone of aeration
satellite
axis
10. The galaxy where Earth is located.
weathering
Milky Way
resources
drainage divide
11. A lake of lava & usually basaltic & in a volcanic caldera.
body wave
crystal
lava lake
clast
12. A sedimentary rock composed of combustible matter derived from the partial decomposition of plant material.
oal
disintegration (mechanical weathering)
igneous rock
Cenozoic
13. Living parts of the environment that can renew or replace themselves.
fold and thrust mountains
renewable resources
seismic sea wave (tsunami)
oxbow
14. A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano & through Which magma has passed.
fjord
stormwater runoff
current speed
pipe
15. 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.
black smoker
estuary
casts
trench
16. A hydrocarbon (coal or petroleum) that can be extracted from the Earth for use as a fuel. Fossil fuels are non-renewable energy sources.
fossil fuel
fetch
sedimentary rock
chlorophyll
17. An eruption of lava that takes place from a fracture & usually without producing a cone.
asthenosphere
fissure eruption
sinkhole
Prime Meridian
18. A device containing a free-swinging magnetic needle that is attracted to Earth's magnetic North Pole. Used to determine direction of travel.
compass
caldera
Earth system
arid
19. A region of high heat flow on the Earth's surface & thought to lie above a mantle plume .
prairie
baseline study
mesosphere
hot spot
20. Deep steep-sided depression in the ocean floor caused by the subduction of oceanic crust beneath either other oceanic crust or continental crust.
anemometer
oceanic trench
frost wedging
conduction
21. A small ice sheet.
fold and thrust mountains
fjord
spring
icecap
22. All unconsolidated materials above bedrock. Natural earthy materials on the Earth's surface & in places modified or even made by human activity & containing living matter & and supporting or capable of supporting plants out of doors.
Mars
black hole
pipe
soil
23. The study of earthquakes & and of the structure of the Earth by both natural and artificially generated seismic waves.
compression fossil
hardness
basalt
seismology
24. A narrow strip of land along the margin of the ocean extending inland for a variable distance from low water mark.
archaean
density
coast
magnitude
25. The great circle on the Earth's surface passing through The North and South Poles & which is considered 0 degrees longitude. The prime meridian passes through Greenwich & England & and is used as a reference point for measuring longitude east and w
ice sheet
cone of depression
greenhouse gases
Prime Meridian
26. A mudflow composed chiefly of pyroclastic material on the flanks of a volcano.
mineral deposit
lahar
ice sheet
Mercury
27. A sedimentary rock composed primarily of biogenic sediments.
bar
aa
biogenic sedimentary rock
subduction zone
28. A roughly circular reef with an occasional small & low & coral sand island surrounding a shallow lagoon.
legend
moraine
basaltic
atoll
29. The primary division of geologic time which are & from oldest to youngest & the Hadean & Archean & Proterozoic & and Phanerozoic eons.
sextant
eon
compression fossil
smelting
30. A collection of maps.
collisional Boundary
scour
tell
atlas
31. The closest galaxy to the Milky way. It is approximately 2 million light-years away.
magnitude
Copernicus & Nicholas
Andromeda
Pillow Lava
32. 1. A low & bowl-shaped area of land surrounded by higher lands. 2. any large depression in which sediments are deposited.
basin
reservoir rock
stratum
tell
33. A famous scientist who proposed that the Sun was the center of the solar system not the Earth. (Heliocentrism)
bar
Copernicus & Nicholas
Sun
erratic
34. The relationship between distances in the area being mapped and distances in the map itself.
channelization
rock
scale
gemstone
35. Named after the Roman god of the sea. It is the eighth planet from the Sun.
isostatic change in sea level
seismograph
Milky Way
neptune
36. (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
continent
resources
watershed
37. An individual grain or constituent of a rock.
oxbow
Andromeda
global warming
clast
38. A sea wave produced by any large-scale & short duration disturbance on the seafloor & commonly a shallow submarine earthquake but possibly also a submarine slide or volcanic eruption.
prairie
satellite
reservoir rock
seismic sea wave (tsunami)
39. 1. Breach in a natural levee . 2. Deep crevice or open fracture in glacier ice.
exotic river
Pluto
crevasse
zone of leaching
40. A period of dryness & that when prolonged & causes damage to crops; a shortage of water.
convection cell
compass Rose
fold
drought
41. Enormous & thick sheets of rock that are part of the Earth's upper mantle that move and adjoin each other along zones of seismic activity. Many tectonic plates extend underneath both continents and sea floor.
constellation
compression fossil
tectonic Plates
stalagmite
42. Gases (primarily water and carbon dioxide & but also a variety of sulfur and nitrogen compounds and gaseous hydrocarbons) that trap the Sun's heat in the atmosphere.
tide
petroleum
current speed
greenhouse gases
43. The very slow & generally continuous downslope movement of soil and debris under the influence of gravity.
creep
absolute time
atoll
longitude
44. Turbulent stream water flow down a steep gradient & but not as steep as in a waterfall.
magma
rapids
crystal
geologic column
45. An astronomical instrument for measuring angles & primarily altitude of celestial bodies to determine latitude.
black hole
sextant
beach
levees
46. The effect of water and carbon dioxide absorbing outgoing infrared radiation & raising a system's temperature. The term is generally used with reference to the Earth's temperature & although it can also be applied to other systems & such as greenhous
magnetic polarity
Greenhouse Effect
Pluto
reserves
47. A river that is able to maintain its flow through a desert because of water received from outside the desert.
stalagmite
terrestrial
Venus
exotic river
48. Soil conditions prevailing in area whose mean annual temperature is 0o C.
permafrost
boundary
convection
fold and thrust mountains
49. A low & nearly flat accumulation of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river or stream & commonly triangular or fan-shaped.
crevasse
delta
quarrying
isthmus
50. The layer of gases (air) & that surrounds a planet or moon.
dust devil
atmosphere
basaltic
ice shelf