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41 Cards in this Set
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to take in
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Absorb
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a blanket of gas that surrounds Earth
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Atmosphere
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a real or imaginary line that a spinning object truns around
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Axis
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a fossil formed or shaped within a mold
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Cast
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a chuck of ice and rock that orbits the Sun in a long, narrow orbit
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Comet
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the pricess in whivh water particles change from a gas to a liquid
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Condensation
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solid rock that makes up the Moon's and Earth's outermost layers
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Crust
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a long period of time with little or no precipition
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Drought
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movement or vibration in the rocks that make up Earth's crust
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Earthquake
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the wearing away of soil and rock particles by waves, wind, running water, or glaciers
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Erosion
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bursting or throwing forth
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Eruptions
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the process in which water particles change from a liquid to a gas
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Evaporation
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any evidence of an organism that lived in the past
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Fossil
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a force that causes objects to move toward the center of the earth, causes objects to have weight
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Gravity
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"Fire-Made" rock fromed from melted rock material
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Igneous Rock
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a fossil created by a print or impression
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Imprint
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a sliding down of mass of earth or rock on a steep slope
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Landslides
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a distance of static electricity from a thundercloud
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Lightening
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the layer of rock lying below the crust
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Mantle
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Rock whose form has changed by heat/pressure
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Metamorphic Rock
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a naturally occurring substance, neither a plant nor animal
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Minerals
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two or more types of matter that are mixed together but keep their own properties
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Mixture
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a fossil clearly showing hte outside features of the organism
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Mold
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the path an object follows as it revolves
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Orbit
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a satellite of the Sun
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Planet
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the adding of harmful substances to the water, air or land
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Pollution
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water in the atmospherie that falls to Earth as rain, snow, hail or sleet
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Precipitation
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quality of objects (example: texture, color, shape, size, buoyancy, magnetic attraction etc.)
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Properties
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a never ending process by which rocks are changed from one type to another
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Rock Cycle
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rock formed from bits or layers of rocks cemented together
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Sedimentary Rock
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a large region of the atmospher where the air has similiar properties throughout
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Air Mass
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the force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it
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Air Pressure
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a measure of how hot or cold something is
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Temperature
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an instrument used to measure temperature
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Thermometer
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a measurement of how much water vapor is in the air
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Humidity
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a boundary between air masses with different temperatures
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Front
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statement of what is to come, prediction about weather
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Forecast
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a front where cold air moves in under warm air
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Cold Front
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a boundary between air masses where the warm air mass slides up and over the cold air mass
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Warm Front
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condition of the atmosphere with respect to temperature, moisture, cloudiness: changes day to day
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Weather
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an instrumnet used to measure wind direction
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Weather Vane
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