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31 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Composition of Atmosphere
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80%- nitrogen
20%-oxygen |
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Layers of the atmosphere
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Troposphere, tropopause, stratosphere, stratopause, mesosphere, mesopause, thermosphere
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Coriolis effect
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effect of the Earth's rotation that causes the deflection of moving objects toward the right (N) and left (S)
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mT
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Maritime tropical
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cT
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continental tropical
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mP
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maritime polar
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cP
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continental polar
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atoll
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ring-shaped island
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guyot
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flat-topped seamounts
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seamount
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cone-shaped mountain peaks
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rift valley
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valley in the middle of a mid-ocean ridge
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continental shelf
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flat area before a slope
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continental slope
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downfall of land after a shelf
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abyssal plain
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aarea below an undersea river
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neap tide
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tide of small range at 1/4 phase of moon
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spring tide
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tide of large range at new moon/full moon
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Red Shift
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movement away from a point
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Blue shift
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movement toward a point
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chromosphere
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inner layer of the susn's atmosphere
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corona
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thin, relatively dim outer atmosphere of the sun
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sunspots
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cool spots on the sun
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solar flare
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sudden outburst of energy that rises in sunspots
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solar prominences
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huge flamelike arch of material that occur in the corona
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solar wind
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stream of electrically charged particles
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waxing
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dark to light
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waning
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light to dark
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solar eclipse
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moon is in between sun and earth
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lunar eclipse
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moon passes into earth's umbra
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aquifer
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a permeable layer of rock and sediment
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aquiclude
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impermeable body of rock that absorbs water slowly but does not transmit it
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4 Eras
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Cenozoic, Mesozoic, paleozoic, and precambrian
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