Hydrologic Cycle
The transformation of water from liquid to gas.
What is Evaporation?
The state of energy that in being transformed into another type of energy.
What is kinetic energy?
The theory that pieces of the earth's lithosphere are in constant motion.
What are plate tectonics?
The blanket of gas on the surface of a planet or satellite.
What is the atmosphere?
Mean, median, mode, and range.
What are the measures of central tendency?
Condensed water vapor that falls to earth as rain, snow, hail, fog drip, and sleet.
What is Precipitation?
The state of energy that is being stored.
What is potential energy?
A land area having a relatively flat surface.
What is a plateau?
Vast groupings of stars.
What are galaxies?
The most occurring number in a dataset.
What is the mode?
The state change directly from solid water to water vapor.
What is sublimation?
Is the potential energy held by an object because of its high position compared to a lower position.
What is gravitational force?
the soft layer of mantle that the lithosphere floats on.
What is the asthenosphere?
The blocking of sunlight to the moon that happens when the earth is in between the sun and moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
The difference between the greatest and least numbers in a dataset.
What is the range?
The release of water vapor from plants and soil into the air.
What is transpiration?
A type of energy that travels through space as waves.
What is electromagnetic energy?
Often include the same data as political maps, but their primary purpose is to show landforms.
What are physical maps?
clouds of gas and dust that form new stars.
What are nebulas?
The middle number in a dataset in order from least to greatest.
What is the median?
A thermodynamic process, a transition of crystalization in which gas turns into a solid.
What is deposition/de-sublimation?
A combination of potential energy and kinetic energy and is the energy associates with position and motion.
What is mechanical energy?
A major seismic zone and a abundant source of intra-plate earthquakes.
What is the new Madrid fault?
The blocking of sunlight to earth when the moon is between the earth and the sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
the sum of the numbers in the dataset divided by however many numbers are in the dataset.
How do you calculate the mean?