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44 Cards in this Set
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The same substance Always has the same _______ |
Density |
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As pressure______ Density______ |
Increases, Increases |
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Water ______ when it freezes |
Expands |
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Most changes in the environment are ______ |
Cyclic |
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Water is densest at _____when it is a_____ |
4ยฐC,liquid |
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The true shape of the Earth is a _____ _____ |
Oblate Spheroid |
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The _____ of Polaris equals your _____ |
Altitude latitude |
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Latitude lines go _____-_____ but measure how far _____or _____the equator |
East - West ,above or below |
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Longitude lines go _____-____ |
North - South |
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The closer the _______ are the steeper the slope/gradient |
Isolines , contour ,isobar ,isotherm |
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Earth rotates |
Counterclockwise |
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Celestial objects APPEAR to rotate |
West |
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Cool fast _______ Cool slow _________ |
Small crystals, Large crystals |
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Energy moves from _____to _____ |
Source to sink or from high to low |
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Kinetic energy |
Motion |
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Black White |
Absorbs Reflects |
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Radiation |
Heat transfer through space |
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Geocentric |
Earth in center of universe |
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Heliocentric |
Sun in center of universe |
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Potential energy |
Stored |
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Highs are cool and Lows are warm and |
Dry wet |
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Conduction |
Heat transfer through solids |
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Convection |
Heat transfer through liquids gases |
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Coriolis Effect Right in __________ Left in ____________ |
Northern hemisphere Southern hemisphere |
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Retrograde |
The planets APPEAR to move backwards |
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Warm air Cool air |
Rises Sinks |
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Evidence that the earth rotates |
Foucault pendulum Coriolis Effect |
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The lower the ____of the sun the lower the ______ it casts |
Altitude shadow |
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Air pressure________ with ________ |
Decreases , altitude |
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Wind is named from the direction __ ______ ____ |
It comes from |
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There is no __________ _______ in a phase change |
Temperature change |
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Infrared has a _____wave length |
Long |
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Wind blows from______to ___ pressure |
High to low |
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High regions Low regions |
Clockwise Counterclockwise |
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The closer the ________ is to the dew point the _______ chance of _______ |
Temperature, greater, precipitation |
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Weather moves from ____to ____ |
West to East |
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Porosity |
Amount of holes |
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Permeability |
Connection of holes |
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Capillarity |
Upward movement of water |
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Evidence of continental drift |
Same Fossils on opposite shores, continents fit together like puzzle pieces |
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unconformity |
Buried erosional surface (Rocks missing)---____-- --โโ |
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Superposition |
Oldest rock layer on bottom |
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Closer to the ___ the faster the _____ |
Sun orbit |
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Earth is closer to the ___in _____/_____ |
Sun winter January |