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Density |
Density= amount of stuff DIVIDED BY amount of space OR D=M/V |
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Latitude |
Height of Polaris 40° to 45° in MUS Goes Horizontally |
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Longitude |
Determines Time 70°-79° In NYS |
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Resistant |
Mineral Hardness Greater resistance = greater hardness |
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Closer Lines (Isolines) |
Steep Gradient or Steep hill |
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Smaller Circle |
Indicating the top of a mountain or hill |
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Stream Crossing (Contour lines crossing the stream) |
Indicates the direction of a streams source. |
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Hashard Lines |
Indicates depression or hole |
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Sea Level |
0 feet of elevation |
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Capallarity |
Ability of water to flow up a tube |
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Permeable |
Water can pass through (the ground & rocks) |
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Porosity |
Space in between particles in the ground, filled by air or water |
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Aquifer |
Underground water |
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Transpiration |
The process in which trees absorb ground water |
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Condensation |
When water changes from gas to liquid - how clouds form - Dew point |
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Watershed |
Drainage from a stream |
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Tributaries |
Smaller rivers that feed into a larger stream |
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Daily |
Rotation |
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Different Months |
Revolution |
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Coriolis |
Bending due to rotation in the Northern hemisphere to the right in the southern hemisphere to the left |
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Breakdown |
Weathering |
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Movement |
Erosion |
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Dropping |
Deposition |
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Glacier |
- U shaped valley - unsorted Till - grooves in rocks |
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Wind |
- Created by a pressure gradient - Agent of erosion |
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Abrasion |
Smooth and round |
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Vertical Sorting |
Occurs in standing water largest at bottom |
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Horizontal sorting |
Occurs when stream enters a large body if water |
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Cool |
Dry, high pressure |
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Warm |
Wet, low pressure |
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Extrusive |
When igneous forms at or near the surface of lava |
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Intrusive |
When igneous rocks form underground "MAGMA" |
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Crystals |
Indicates an igneous rock |
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Large Crystals |
The larger the crystal the longer it took to cool. |
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Clastic |
Sedimentary rock formed of smaller rock pieces |
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Limestone |
Calcite bubbles with acid |
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Evaporites |
Formed when water evaporates EX. rock salt |
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Precipitates |
Forms out of solution |
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Land derived |
Sedimentary rocks that formed on land |
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Extrusive Characteristics |
-Crystals - gas pockets - glassy texture |
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Trench |
Found at convergent plate boundary between oceanic & continental crust |
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Ridge |
Found at a congruent plate boundary between oceanic & oceanic or continental & continental crust |
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Dark & Rough |
Absorbs heat |
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Distorted |
Metamorphic |
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Calcite |
Bubbles in acid |
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Chemical Weathering |
Happened in warm humid environments |
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Physical environments |
Cool humid environments |
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Frost Wedging |
Water fills cracks and expands when it freezes |
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Stream Erosion |
V shaped valley |
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Oceanic Crust |
Dark, dense, thin |
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Continental Crust |
Less dense, thicker |
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Fault |
Crack in the earth |
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Oldest layer |
On bottom |
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Extrusion |
Has contact metamorphism on sides and bottom |
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Intrusion |
Has contact metamorphism all around |
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Velocity |
Speed |
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Spring tide |
Highest high tides lowest low tides |
New moon full moon |
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Neap tides |
Lowest high tides Highest low tides |
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Carbon 14 |
Shortest half life Used for recent remains |
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Pendulum |
Foucault Proves rotation |
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Yearly |
Revolution |
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Cycle |
A repeating pattern |
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Lows |
Cloudy & stormy Counterclockwise and inward |
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Highs |
Clear skies Clockwise and outward |
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Foliated |
Squished layers |
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Crystal Activity |
Indicates plate boundaries |
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Ring of Fire |
Surrounds the Pacific plate volcanoes and earthquakes |
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Transform |
San Andreas fault |
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Light smooth |
Reflects light and heat |
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Lunar eclipse |
Full moon Moon in earth shadow |
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Solar eclipse |
When the moon blocks the sun |
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Waning |
Shrinking |
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Waxing |
Growing |
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Index Fossils |
Short amount of Time Wide spread area |
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Tsunami |
Caused by undersea earthquakes |
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Outer Core |
Liquid |
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S Waves |
Solid only |
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P Waves |
Solid or liquid or gas |
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Sea floor spreading |
Shows the poles are reversing |
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Convection cells |
How the plate move |
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Impermeable |
Does not allow a substance through |
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Plateau |
Flat area medium to high elevation |
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Coastal Area |
moderate temperature range |
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Inland |
A wide temperature range |
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Saturated |
Full of water |
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Glacial path |
South |
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Moraine |
Pile of rocks left by glacier. Unsorted. North shore of long island |
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Outwash |
Sorted, South shore of long island |
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Exfoliation |
Removing the outer layer of the rock |
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Outside of curve |
Fast, erosion, |
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Inside the curve |
Slow, deposition |
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Phase change |
No temperature change |
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Density of solids |
Stays the same |
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Water slows |
Drops off the biggest particles |
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North America movement |
North West |
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Continental Drift |
Matching folssils in different places |
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Volcano Saftey |
LEAVE |
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Clevage |
Flat patterned break |
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Hurricane |
Very Very low pressure "feeds" on warm water |
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Tornadoes |
When warm and cool air meet. |
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Cold fronts |
Strong storms |
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Strong Gravity |
Closer, larger mass |
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Stratosphere |
The layer of the atmosphere where you find the ozone layer |
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Jovian |
Bigger, less dense, many moons, rings |
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Red shift |
Moving away |
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Ellipse |
Oval shaped orbit |
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Elevation increases |
Temp up down up down, pressure goes down, troposphere up, mesosphere down, stratosphere up, thermosohere up |
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Equinox |
12 hours per day 12 hour nights |
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Southern Sky |
Where the sun is |
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Closer to the sky |
Faster you move |
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North Pole towards the sun |
In the summer the north is facing towards the sun |
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Warm front |
Long soaking rain |
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Volume |
Amount of space |
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23.5 |
Tilt of the earth |
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15° |
Rotation per day |
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Spiral |
Our galaxy |
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April- June |
Angle of the sum increases |
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Radiation |
Energy transfer through space |
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Equilibrium |
Changing state of balance |
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Condensation Nuclei |
Dust or pollutants |
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Asteroid belt |
Asteroids between mars and Jupiter |
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Meandering |
Slow and curvy |
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Storms move |
West to East |
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Tropical of Capricorn |
Winter |
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Closer isobars |
Faster winds |
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Roation of earth |
West to East |
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Later |
East when your talking about later |
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Earlier |
West compared to your location |
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Pressure Gradient |
High to low |
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Mineral differences |
Composition & internal arrangement of the atoms |
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End of Era |
Marked by an extinction of some sort |
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Oldest Island |
Furthest away from hot spot |
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Hurricane Saftey |
- water, batteries, board Windows |
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Catskills |
Plateau |
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Runoff |
Impermeable |
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Water heats slowly |
High specific heat |
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Fusion |
How stars make energy |
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Crystal uplift |
Marine fossils found in mountains |
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Hydroplane |
Layers of water |
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Lithosphere |
Layer of rocks |
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Troposphere |
Lower layer of the atmosphere |
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Insolation |
Incoming solar radiation |
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Zenith |
The point in the celestial sphere directly above your head |
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