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Atmosphere 2
100
The galaxy to which our solar system belongs
What is the Milkey Way?
100
The process by which a mining company restores mined land to its original contours and replants vegetation
What is reclamation?
100
The main cause of surface currents
What is wind?
100
The two main conditions that describe climate
What is precipitation and temperature?
100
A front where cold air displaces warm air and forces it up steeply
What is a cold front?
200
In the Geocentric system of the ancient Greeks, all objects in space revolved around this.
What is the Earth?
200
The increase in Earth's average surface temperature from excess CO2 in the atmosphere
What is Global Warming?
200
The movement of cold, deep water coming to the surface
What is an upwelling?
200
The main activity of humans that adds CO2 to the atmosphere
What is burning fossil fuels?
200
The name of air masses that originate over deserts
What is continental tropical?
300
The part of a meteor that doesn't bun up in teh atmosphere and strikes Earth's surface
What is a meteorite?
300
Energy sources that formed from organisms that lived millions of years ago
What are Fossil Fuels?
300
Within 5%, the percentage of Earth coverd by oceans
What is 71%?
300
A front is a boundary between two of these
What are air masses?
300
The evaporation of water through leaves
What is transpiration?
400
A streak of light, also called shooting star, made when a fragment passes through Earth's atmosphere
What is a meteor?
400
Heat from steam and hot water produced naturally within Earth
What is geothermal energy?
400
The highest seawater salinities occur where rates of precipitation are exceeded by rates of this
What is evaporation?
400
The energy transfer that occurs becasue of a difference in temperature between substances
What is heat?
500
A Danish astronomer who made the most complete astronomical observations before the telescope was invented
What is Tycho Brahe?
500
A resource that exists in a fixed amoutn and is used up faster than it can be replaced
What is a nonrenewable resource?
500
A flat or gently sloping submerged part of a continental margin
What is a continental slope?
500
Coastal areas have milder climates because water does these two things more slowly than land
What is heat up and cool down?
500
When air warms adn explands, its molecules do this, making the air less dense and causing them to rise
What is move farther apart?
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