Earth Life

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Topographic Map

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Is a tool that shows the elevant of land by using a series of connected lines.

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Relief map

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is a tool that that shows the elevation of land by using raised, or bumpy, surfaces to represent the shaps and elevaton of the land.

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Plateaus

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This and flat areas of land, but they are found at high elevations. they usually have steep sides.

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Continental Divide

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is the elevation point at whitch the flowing water on a continet goses in one direction or another.

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Minerals

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are non-living, naturally occuring compounds of the earth.

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Weathering

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is the process in which all kinds of rocks are broken down into smaller pieces over time.

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Mechanical weathering

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Occurs when rocks break apart due to ice, temperature, or gravity. ROcks break down into smaller pieces.

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Chemical Weathering

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occurs when plants or chemicals change the rocks into new substance.

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Erosin

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is the process that moves rock pieces from one plave to another, once weathering has occured.

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Water Cycle

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Surface water in michigan will eventualy reach the ocean and return to michigan trough this.

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Permeable

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The more porous and this the soil, the more water will sink into the ground.

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Saturated

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When the ground is this, water will runoff rather then soak into soil.

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Solar System

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Contains a star, plants, moons, coments, and asteroids.

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Emitted light

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the sun is a star. Stars make there own light through nuckear reactions.

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Equinox

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Occurs on earth when the northern and southren hemispheres receive and equal amount of sunlight. on the first day of spring and fall.

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Solstice

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Occurs on earth when northern and southern hemispheres receive their longest and shortes amount of sunlight. On the first day of summer and winter.

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Solar Eclips

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occurs when the moon moves in front of the sun durig the day, creating a shadow and blocking sunlight from part of the earth.

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Luner Eclips

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Occurs when the eath blocks light from the sun's light, creating a shadow on the moon at night.

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Life

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For this to exsist on a planet or moon, there must be an appropriate amount temperature, surface, and molecules.

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Meteorites

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Are fragment of meteors or rock from outer space that reach the surface of Earth.