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Igneous Rocks
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Chrystaline minerals solidified from molten magma deep in the earth's interior, basalt, rhyolite, andesite, lava, and granite are examples
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Deep Crystal
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Magma
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Molten rock from deep in the earth's interior called lava when it spews from volcanic vents
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Metamorphic Rock
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Igneous and sedimentary rocks modified by heat, pressure and chemicals reactions
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Mineral
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A naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solid with definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties
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Rock
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A Solid cohesive, aggregate of one or more crystalline minerals
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Rock Cycle
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The process whereby rocks are broken down by chemical and physcial forces, sediments are moved by wind, water, gravity, sedminented and reformed into rock, and then crushed, folded, melted and recrystallized into new forms
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Sedimentary Rocks
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Deposited material that remains in place long enough or is covered and with enough material to compact into stone
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Sedimentation
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The deposition of organic materials or minerals by chemical, physical or biological processer
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Weathering
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Changes in rocks brought about by exposure to air, water, hcanging temperatures, reactive chemical agents
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Aerosols
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Minute Particles or liquid droplets suspended in air
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Climate
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A description of the long-term weather pattern in a specific area
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Cold Front
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A moving boundary of cooler air displacing warmer air
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Convection Currents
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Rising or sinking air currents that stir the atmosphere and transport heat from one area to another. Convection currents alos occur in water
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Greenhouse Effects
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Gases in the atmosphere are transparent to visible light but absorb infared (eat) waves that are radiated from earth's surface
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Hurricane
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Large, cyclonic, oceanic storms with heavy rain and winds exceeding 74mph
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Jet Streams
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Powerful winds or currents of air that circulate in shifting flows, similar to oceanic currents in extent and effect on climate
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Ozone
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A highly reactive molecule containing three oxygen atoms, a dangerous pollutant in ambient air. In the stratosphere, however, ozone forms an ultraviolet absorbing shield that protects us from mutagenic radiation
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Stratsophere
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The ozone occurring in the stratosphere 10-50 km above the Earth's surface
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Tornadoes
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A violent storm characterized by strong whirling winds and updrafts, tornadoes from when a strong cold front pushes under a warm moist air mass over land.
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Warm Front
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A long, wedge-shaped boundary caused when warmer advancing air mass slides over neighboring cooler air parcels
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Weather
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Description of the physical conditions of the atmosphere
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Formaldehyde
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Colorless pungent gas made by oxidizing methanal
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Igneous Rocks
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Chrystaline minerals solidified from molten magma deep in the earth's interior, basalt, rhyolite, andesite, lava, and granite are examples
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Deep Crystal
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Magma
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Molten rock from deep in the earth's interior called lava when it spews from volcanic vents
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deeeep
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Metamorphic Rock
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Igneous and sedimentary rocks modified by heat, pressure and chemicals reactions
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heat
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Mineral
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A naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solid with definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties
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Rock
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A Solid cohesive, aggregate of one or more crystalline minerals
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Rock Cycle
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The process whereby rocks are broken down by chemical and physcial forces, sediments are moved by wind, water, gravity, sedminented and reformed into rock, and then crushed, folded, melted and recrystallized into new forms
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Sedimentary Rocks
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Deposited material that remains in place long enough or is covered and with enough material to compact into stone
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Sedimentation
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The deposition of organic materials or minerals by chemical, physical or biological processer
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Weathering
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Changes in rocks brought about by exposure to air, water, hcanging temperatures, reactive chemical agents
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Aerosols
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Minute Particles or liquid droplets suspended in air
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Climate
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A description of the long-term weather pattern in a specific area
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Cold Front
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A moving boundary of cooler air displacing warmer air
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Convection Currents
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Rising or sinking air currents that stir the atmosphere and transport heat from one area to another. Convection currents alos occur in water
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Greenhouse Effects
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Gases in the atmosphere are transparent to visible light but absorb infared (eat) waves that are radiated from earth's surface
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Hurricane
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Large, cyclonic, oceanic storms with heavy rain and winds exceeding 74mph
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Igneous Rocks
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Chrystaline minerals solidified from molten magma deep in the earth's interior, basalt, rhyolite, andesite, lava, and granite are examples
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Deep Crystal
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Magma
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Molten rock from deep in the earth's interior called lava when it spews from volcanic vents
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deeeep
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Metamorphic Rock
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Igneous and sedimentary rocks modified by heat, pressure and chemicals reactions
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heat
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Mineral
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A naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solid with definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties
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Rock
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A Solid cohesive, aggregate of one or more crystalline minerals
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Rock Cycle
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The process whereby rocks are broken down by chemical and physcial forces, sediments are moved by wind, water, gravity, sedminented and reformed into rock, and then crushed, folded, melted and recrystallized into new forms
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Sedimentary Rocks
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Deposited material that remains in place long enough or is covered and with enough material to compact into stone
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Sedimentation
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The deposition of organic materials or minerals by chemical, physical or biological processer
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Weathering
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Changes in rocks brought about by exposure to air, water, hcanging temperatures, reactive chemical agents
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Aerosols
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Minute Particles or liquid droplets suspended in air
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Climate
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A description of the long-term weather pattern in a specific area
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Cold Front
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A moving boundary of cooler air displacing warmer air
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Convection Currents
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Rising or sinking air currents that stir the atmosphere and transport heat from one area to another. Convection currents alos occur in water
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Greenhouse Effects
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Gases in the atmosphere are transparent to visible light but absorb infared (eat) waves that are radiated from earth's surface
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Hurricane
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Large, cyclonic, oceanic storms with heavy rain and winds exceeding 74mph
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