Astronomy
The first astronomer to theorize that the Earth was at the center of the Universe (Geocentric Theory).
Who is Ptolemy?
Rocks breaking down due to natural processes
What is Weathering and Erosion?
The 3 main processes that are included in the hydrologic (water) cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
What is the Hydrosphere?
These are the 4 Earth systems.
Biosphere, Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Geosphere (Lithosphere)
Nicolaus Copernicus was one of the first astronomers to support this theory.
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
What is Metamorphic?
This is the kind of pressure system that is formed for less dense, warm, moist air.
What is a low pressure system?
These occur when a storm is dissipating and no longer has warm, moist air supplying the energy source for the storm.
What are downdrafts?
The gases that make up the composition of our outer planets.
What are Hydrogen and Helium?
The order of the planets, from closest to the Sun to the farthest.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
Two kinds of the same rock: one forms form lava above ground and the other forms from magma underground.
What are Intrusive Igneous Rocks and Extrusive Igneous Rocks?
This is the way air moves to create wind patterns moving from different pressure systems. (High-to-low or low-to-high?)
What is High pressure to Low pressure?
The percentage of Earth's surface covered by water.
What is 70%-75% ?
The two tails of a comet come from ________ and ________.
What are gas and dust?
He made significant improvements to the telescope and was able to observe Jupiter's moons, and the phases of Venus to help disprove Geocentric Theory
Who is Galileo Galilei?
A mountain range forms at the kind of boundary involving two continental tectonic plates.
What is a convergent boundary?
What are the cumulus, mature, and dissipating stages?
A quality of water that allows it to absorb large amounts of heat before increasing its temperature
What is specific heat / heat capacity?
How many kilometers are in one Astronomical Unit?
What is 1.5x108 km or 150,000,000 km ?
This astronomer developed a law that indicates that objects in space and their speeds are proportional. Meaning that objects farther away are moving faster than those that are closer.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
Most rocks are made from these naturally occurring, inorganic substances that have a crystalline structure, a definite chemical formula, and are solid.
What are minerals?
What is Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere?
The process of warmer water at the equator being transported to the cooler regions because warm water moves to the poles, and cooler water returns back to the equator.
What are thermohaline currents?
The concept that things in space appear a certain color because they are moving away from us, causing a change of the waves of radiation that it emits (Helps support the idea that the universe is expanding)
What is Redshift?