Prologue - topic 1
This is less dense than water.
What is ice?
Naturally occurring homogenous substances.
The breakdown of rocks into sediments.
What is weather?
The two ways in which water enters the atmosphere
What is Transpiration & evaporation?
An object is the sky outside of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is a celestial object?
The three sphere of the earth
What is lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere?
The 3 test for identifying a mineral.
What is cleavage, streak, and hardness?
The important factors of stream velocity.
What is sediment size, gradient (slope), channel shape, & volume of water?
A large bandy that shows uniform characteristic.
What is air mass?
The longest night of the year.
What is the winter solstice?
Drawn on a map to give elevations.
What are contour lines?
Cementation, compaction/compression, evaporation/precipitation, and organically from plants and animals.
What are the 4 methods of formation?
Any has several landscaped regions that can be identified.
What is continental landmass?
Modern branch of science and mathematics has shown meteorologist that predictions for more than a week or two in the future are unlikely ever to be reliable.
What is chaos theory?
When the earth lies between the Moon and the Sun.
What is the lunar eclips?
An oblate spheroid slightly flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator.
What is Earth?
Crust, mantel, & core
What are the layers of the Earth?
This proves that earth rotates; deflects winds into the curve
What is the Coriolis effect?
All spaces, cracks, and other openings in soil and rock grains become completely filled with water
What are zones of saturation?
When the Moon and the Sun are on the same side of earth.
What is the new moon?
Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere
What are the 4 layers of the atmosphere?
This man can up with the idea of moving landmasses.
(Continental drift)
Who was Alfred Wegener?
When the dry bulb and dew point are close
What is precipitation?
The ability to soil to draw water upward into tiny spaces between soil grains.
What is capillarity?
The 3 different shapes of galaxies.
What is elliptical, irregular, and spiral?