Geology
non-minerallic rock formed from dead biomatter
What is coal?
The amount of the Earth's surface covered by water.
70%
Tropical Cyclone with wind speeds in excess of 75mph
What is a Hurricane?
Planet with shortest 'year'
What is Mercury?
Season in the Southern Hemisphere when the noon angle of INSOLATION is highest
What is Summer ?
factors in formation of metamorphic rock deep in the crust.
Heat & Pressure
Water Cycle process resulting in cloud
What is Condensation?
Cause of cloud formation in rising humid air
What is expansion, cooling to the Dew Point, then condensation?
reason for the difference between Terrestrial and Jovian planets
What is distance from the Sun?
The kind of tectonic plate boundary where 2 plates come together or collide.
Convergent Boundary
A major side-effect of tectonic plate movement.
Volcanoes and/or Earthquakes
What is the water table?
mechanim that forces warm humid air up over cooler drier air
What is frontal wedging?
stellar evolution is determined by this factor
What is star mass?
Agent of erosion that erodes by plucking
What is a glacier?
This causes movement of tectonic plates.
what are convection currents in the upper mantle, slab pull, and ridge push
agent of erosion and the weathering process that reduces rock particle size and rounds the shape over geologic time
What is running water abrasion?
Result of a cold front overtaking a warm front
What is an occluded front?
term that describes how distances are measured in space using triangulation
What is parallax?
term for the average composition of Continental Rock
What is granitic?
basic molecular building block of the Silicate minerals
What is the Silicon Oxygen Tetrahedron?
a mature shoreline deposition feature, parallel to shore, that has become wide enough for humans to build on
What is a barrier island?
term that describes temperature change due to pressure change, not heat gain or loss
What is adiabatic temperature change?
Constellation that includes Rigel and Betelgeuse
What is Orion?
water cycle process when water vapor directly changes to ice in rapidly forming storm clouds
What is deposition or glaciation?