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1. The area immediately below the ground surface within which pore spaces are partially filled with water and partially filled with air.






2. An area of land that delivers runoff water & sediment & and dissolved substances to surface water bodies & such as rivers or lakes. All watersheds consist of boundaries & a basin and collection areas.






3. A fracture or zone of fractures along the boundaries of tectonic plates where movement has taken place.






4. Plutonic. Antonym of extrusive. Pertaining to igneous rocks or features formed by the emplacement of magma in pre-existing rocks.






5. Bent rock strata.






6. A soft compact calcite & CaCO3 & with varying amounts of silica & quartz & feldspar & or other mineral impurities & generally gray-white or yellow-white and derived chiefly from fossil seashells.






7. A worldwide change in sea level & such as caused by melting glaciers.






8. The elevation at which snow persists throughout the year.






9. All of space and everything in it.






10. To wash or scrub away.






11. A plate boundary in which plates on opposite sides of the boundary move past each other in opposite directions. The San Andreas fault of California is a good example.






12. The accumulation of material in layers or beds.






13. Objects revolving around the sun that are too small and too numerous to be considered planets.






14. An imaginary circle around the earth that represents the halfway mark between the North and South Poles and establishes the boundary between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.






15. Long narrow beaches separated in many places from the mainland by lagoons.






16. A rock changed from its original form and/or composition by heat & pressure &shearing stress & or chemically active fluids & or some combination of them.






17. A small ice sheet.






18. Banks of sand and silt along stream bank built by deposition in small increments during successive floods.






19. Jupiter is named after the Roman king of the gods. It is the fifth planet from the Sun.






20. The level of light that penetrates through water.






21. The first scientist to make systematic use of the telescope in looking at the heavens.






22. An instrument used to measure the speed of wind.






23. The uprush of a wave onto the beach followed by the return flow of the water down the beach slope in the intervals between waves.






24. A supercontinent that existed from the the end of the Permian to the Jurassic & 300 to 200 million years ago & assembled from large continents like Euramerica & Gondwana & and Siberia & as well as smaller landmasses like the Cathaysian and Cimmerian






25. All of space and everything in it.






26. A flood that rises and falls very rapidly.






27. A permeable region of rock or soil through which ground water can move.






28. A reverse fault on which the dip angle of the fault plane is 15 degrees or less.






29. A vent in the surface of the Earth & from which lava & ash & and gases erupt.






30. Mercury is named after the Roman messenger of the gods. It is the closest to the Sun.






31. A ridge of high water associated with a hurricane and which floods over the shore .






32. Gases that can be dissociated by solar radiation & which releases chlorine & which in turn destroys ozone.

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33. Containing moisture.






34. The level of light that penetrates through water.






35. Saturn is named after the Roman god of the harvest. It is the sixth planet from the Sun.






36. The dust-sized & sharp-edged & glassy particles resulting from an explosive volcanic eruption.






37. Large area of extremely flat ocean floor lying near a continent and generally over 4 km in depth.






38. A planetary satellite.






39. A steep or vertical cliff & either above or below sea level.






40. 1. A mass of sand & gravel & or alluvium deposited on the bed of a stream & sea & or lake & or at the mouth of a stream 2. A unit of pressure & approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.






41. A deposit of partly decayed plant remains in a very wet environment; marsh or swamp deposit of plant remains containing more than 50 percent carbon.






42. Mercury is named after the Roman messenger of the gods. It is the closest to the Sun.






43. The processes of weathering by which physical actions such as frost wedging break down a rock into fragments & involving no chemical change.






44. The two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun.






45. The part of the crust that directly underlies the continents and continental shelves. Averages about 35 km in thickness & but may be over 70 km thick under largest mountain ranges.






46. A ball of ice and dust & whose orbit is a long & narrow ellipse.






47. The two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun.






48. Any solid material that has settled out of a state of suspension in liquid.






49. The naturally occurring material from which a mineral or minerals of economic value can be extracted at a profit.






50. An era of time during the Phanerozoic eon lasting from 245 million years ago to 66.4 million ago.







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