Space Systems
This motion of the Earth is responsible for the seasons.
What is revolution?
This law states that the oldest rock layers are at the bottom, and the youngest are at the top.
What is superposition?
This type of rock contains fossils.
What is sedimentary?
this type of air mass has high density.
What is a cold air mass?
solar energy is an example of this kind of resource.
What is renewable?
What is a full moon?
This type of crust is the thinnest and densest.
What is oceanic crust?
This type of rock forms due to heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
this type of front features a cold and warm air mass not moving.
What is a stationary front?
This type of energy, formed from animal/plant remains, is not reusable within a human timescale.
What are fossil fuels?
This phenomenon is the reason why we always see the same face of the moon.
What is tidal locking?
What is an index fossil?
Freeze thaw is an example of this.
What is physical weathering?
the name of this air mass is over Canada.
what is continental polar?
The parts of Earth where life exists, including all living organisms.
What is the biosphere?
This is known as the start of spring (March 21).
What is the vernal equinox?
This is a continuous cycle of fluids that happens due to density differences.
What are convection currents?
This causes contact metamorphism.
What is a magma intrusion?
this motion of the Earth causes the Coriolis Effect.
What is rotation?
outgassing from this causes more CO2 to be in the atmosphere.
What is a volcano?
Neap tides happen at these 2 moon phases.
What is 1st and 3rd quarter?
This radioactive isotope is helpful in dating the bones of early humans.
What is Carbon 14?
This type of plate boundary is in San Andreas, CA.
What is transform?
this phenomenon is why heat is trapped in the atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
this kind of radiation from the Sun continuously heats up the atmosphere.
What is infrared?