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Earth Science
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1. The internal resistance to flow in a liquid.
meteoroid
gemstone
equator
viscosity
2. The rock beneath the soil.
eustatic change in sea level
bedrock
Milky Way
orogeny
3. Where one plate slides beneath another plate as the two are pushed together & a subduction zone.
convergent boundary
levees
Jupiter
intrusive
4. 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.
ore deposit
crater
greenhouse gases
crust
5. An instrument that merely indicates the occurrence of an earthquake.
sandstorm
seismoscope
superposition
cartographer
6. 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.
jetty
swash and back wash
ozone
base
7. The tendency of a moving object to continue in a straight line or a stationary object to remain in place.
dust devil
inertia
constellation
bar
8. A chuck of rock or dust in space.
zone of aeration
meteoroid
Hale-Bopp
gemstone
9. A large area of flat or nearly flat land.
observator
Earth
plain
plutonic
10. The process of one plate descending beneath another.
lava flood (plateau basalt)
ground moraine
Sun
subduction
11. The perpendicular or very steep descent of a stream.
anemometer
waterfall
storm surge
fault
12. An instrument used to measure the speed of wind.
hardness
Proterozoic
magnetic polarity
anemometer
13. Mountains & characterized by extensive folding and thrust faulting & that form at convergent plate boundaries on continents.
fluctuate
fold and thrust mountains
resources
Jupiter
14. Soil conditions prevailing in area whose mean annual temperature is 0o C.
permafrost
Earth
Jupiter
volcanic
15. A valley caused by extension of the Earth's crust. Its floor forms as a portion of the crust moves downward along normal faults.
channelization
rift (graben)
geyser
flood
16. 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.
scientific model
black smoker
volcanic
conduction
17. Where two plates collide to form mountains.
collisional Boundary
ozone depletion
thermal spring
Gondwana
18. A cavity in a lava & formed by the entrapment of a gas bubble during solidification of the lava.
vesicle
Mercury
subduction zone
acid
19. A small ice sheet.
icecap
seismic sea wave (tsunami)
resources
archaean
20. A depression in the ground formed by the melting of a block of glacier ice buried or partially buried by drift.
mineral deposit
sediment
hardness
kettle
21. Any object that revolves around another object in space.
satellite
epoch
foreshock
barrier beaches
22. 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
pipe
fjord
Greenhouse Effect
hemisphere
23. A ridge of high water associated with a hurricane and which floods over the shore .
drainage divide
plutonic
storm surge
cementation
24. A type of disintegration in which jointed rock is forced apart by the expansion of water as it freezes in fractures.
igneous rock
frost wedging
continental shelf
magnetic polarity
25. To change back and forth uncertainly.
plate tectonics
dust storm
fluctuate
pH
26. The weak or 'soft' zone in the upper mantle just below the lithosphere & involved in plate movement and isostatic adjustments. It lies 70 to 100 km below the surface and may extend to a depth of 400 km.
volcano
drainage basin
precipitation
asthenosphere
27. A reverse fault on which the dip angle of the fault plane is 15 degrees or less.
thrust fault
plain
groove
Copernicus & Nicholas
28. Mercury is named after the Roman messenger of the gods. It is the closest to the Sun.
Mercury
salinization
groin
fringing reef
29. A waterway from open ocean into a lagoon.
tidal inlet
snow line
casts
loess
30. The resistance of a mineral to scratching & as measured by the Mohs scale.
Pangea
Proterozoic
hardness
ozone depletion
31. A steep or vertical cliff & either above or below sea level.
subduction zone
escarpment
pathogen
tidal delta
32. The current geologic era & which began 66.4 million years ago and continues to the present.
conduction
constellation
landforms
Cenozoic
33. Verifying assessments made from satellite data by doing direct & 'on-the ground' measurements.
floodplain
groundtruthing
discharge
Pangea
34. The distance light travels through a vacuum in one year.
ozone layer
light-year
plate
volcano
35. The pattern of water circulation from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean.
Mesozoic
inertia
hydrologic cycle
drainage basin
36. 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
pathogen
Prime Meridian
column
transcontinental
37. A ridge of high water associated with a hurricane and which floods over the shore .
storm surge
gravity
jetty
geyser
38. A study designed to collect critical data to be used for comparison or as a control in a later study.
cave
dust storm
continent
baseline study
39. The very slow & generally continuous downslope movement of soil and debris under the influence of gravity.
clastic
creep
waterfall
global warming
40. The straightening and/or deepening of a river channel.
channelization
eclipse
secchi disk
El Nino
41. A vent in the surface of the Earth & from which lava & ash & and gases erupt.
bedrock
column
extrusive
volcano
42. Deposits of wind-borne dust.
particulate air pollution
soil
loess
cementation
43. Named after the Roman god of the sea. It is the eighth planet from the Sun.
orogeny
chemical sediment
Sun
neptune
44. 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.
Copernicus & Nicholas
continental crust
stratovolcano (composite volcano)
barrier reef
45. The processes (mechanical and chemical) responsible for the wearing away & loosening & and dissolving of materials of the Earth's crust.
trench
erosion
biogenic sedimentary rock
silicate
46. 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.
groove
delta
subduction
nonfoliated
47. Rock formed from the accumulation of sediment & Which may consist of fragments and mineral grains of varying sizes from pre-existing rocks & remains or products of animals and plants & the products of chemical action & or mixtures of these.
epoch
cartographer
sedimentary rock
Continntal Drift Theory
48. 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.
lava dome
acid
axis
quarrying
49. 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
convection cell
Pangea
landforms
nuee ardente
50. An aggregate of one or more minerals in varying proportions.
clast
rock
outcrop
pahoehoe