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20 Cards in this Set
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How Old Is Earth?
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A little over 4.5 billion years old
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What are the oldest materials on Earth?
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Zircon Crystals- 4.3 Billion Years Old
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Earth suffered constant bombardment from ______________
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Meteorites
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First Continents
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Pangea
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Timeline of everything that has happened on Earth
Periods |
Geological Timeline
Paleozoic Era Mesozoic Era Cenozic Era |
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Life (Small fish, bacteria, insects)
Pangea What period of the geological timeline? |
Paleozoic Era
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Reptiles
Dinosaurs Huge Tees & Plants |
Mesozoic Era
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Mammals
Humans Plants Came Back |
Cenozic Era
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Dinosaurs extinct because of a meteor (Mass Extinction)
Name some Mass Extinction Habitats |
Ice Age
Dinosaurs Mammoths Others... Ice Age Dessert Earth Coal Forest Snowball Earth |
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Natural Water Cycle
Continues movement of water on, above, & below the surface of the Earth Water is always changing states between _________, ____________, _____________ |
Hydrologic Cycle
Liquid, Vapor, Ice |
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332.5 million cubic miles of water, over 96% is saline
68% of freshwater is locked up in ice & glaciers 30% of freshwater is in the ground Rivers & lakes have about 22,300 cubic miles or about 1/150th of one percent of total water |
Words Total Water Supply
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Produce heavy rainfall & potentially tropical storms & hurricanes
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Easterly Waves
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Air temperature
Air Pressure Relative Humidity Wind Speed Weather Conditions Show all data collected by meteorologist |
Thermometer
Barometer Psychomotor Anemometer Weather Balloons Weather Maps |
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The Earth is tilted the cause of our seasons (Statement)
Moisture In The Air Most of the water in the atmosphere gets there through __________ Why do you feel humid? |
Dew Point
Evaporation Water Vapor surrounding us prevents perspiration from evaporating easily |
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Excess water vapor in rising air parcels condenses to form a cloud
Drives the Weather |
Moist Convection
Sun Latitude And Insolation Cooler Air Returns Circulation of Atmosphere Warm Winds |
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Cloud Types
Horizontal, layered clouds that stretch out across the sky; warm air passes cool air |
Stratus
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Cloud Types
Puffy in appearance; form when warm, moist air is forced upward; "A Heap Or A Pile" |
Cumulus
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Cloud Types
"Tuft Or Curl Of Hair"; Wispy & feather looking; Form only at high altitudes; 7km above the earth's surface |
Cirrus
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Overall weather of an area; determined by temperature and rainfall
1 of the oldest and most of ten used climate classification systems... Based on vegetative indicator species, it is useful for gaining a metal map of the global distribution of climatic events such as temp. and precip. |
Climate
Koeppen Climate Classification |
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Moving air that results from the uneven heating of the Earth's surface and differences in air pressure
_________ is driven by unequal solar heating and cooling _______ motions are effected by the coriolis effect & "centrifugal" force ______ and ____ pressure systems |
Wind
Weather Air High and low |
