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18 Cards in this Set
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Summer
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6/21, 15 hours a day, 9 hours night, summer solstice
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Inner core
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Iron and nickel, solid.
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What happens to the daylight from June 21st to December 21st?
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It decreases
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Winter
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12/21, 9 hours day, 15 hours night. Winter soltice
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How clouds form
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Cool air rises, then expands, condenses, and forms clouds. Then, precipitation occurs
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Fall
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9/21, 12 hours day, 12 hours night. autumn equinox
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Outer core
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Liquid layer, S-waves cannot penetrate.
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Mantle
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Plastic, non solid, magma.
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Crust
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Continents-granite, oceans-basalt
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Aphelion
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When earth is farther from the sun, the sun looks smaller.
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What happens to the daylight between december 21st to June 21st?
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Increases
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Dynamic Equilibrium
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Something being equal. A river is in a state of balance between erosion and deposition. The amount of sediments eroded is equal to the amount deposited.
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Permeability
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Rate at which water flows.
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Asthenospehre
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Magma in motion, convection currents
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Capillary
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The upward movement of water through the ground. Small particle soil is best for capillary movement. Water cannot move up through pebble soil.
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Parihelion
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When earth is closer to the sun, the sun looks bigger.
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Spring
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3/21, 12 hours day and night, vernal equinox
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How is residual soil formed?
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By the weathering of the rock below it.
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