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Unit 1: Intro To Earth Science
Unit 2: Geology
Unit 3: Oceanography
Unit 4: Meteorology
Unit 5: Astronomy
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What is the branch of Earth Science that is the study of the atmosphere?
Meteorology
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Who is Henry Hess?
Geologist who discovered that the sea floor was spreading.
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What percentage of the Earth is covered by ocean?
72%
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The surface layer in the atmosphere is called what?
The troposphere.
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From largest to smallest, what is the structure of the universe?
Universe, galaxy, star, planet, moon.
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What is variance?
The difference in the data
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What is a divergent boundary?
Plates are moving away from one another
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The mini-submarine which can sink to the ocean floor and has mobility is called a what?
Bathyscaphe
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This gas makes up 0.38% of the atmosphere and is used by plants.
Carbon Dioxide
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What is Hubble Law?
The theory that the Universe is expanding as all galaxies move apart.
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What line runs vertically North to South?
Latitude
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What are continental-continental convergent boundaries?
Continents collide with continent and press together to form mountains.
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The deepest feature on Earth, found where subduction occurs are called what?
Trenches
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What is the ozone layer?
A part of the Stratosphere that protects us from harmful UV rays
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Sun-centered, people did not like this model but later were proven correct.
Heliocentric
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The axis is at what degree?
23.5
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What is the asthenosphere?
The molten material under the lithosphere that causes plates to move
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What is the bottom of a wave called?
A trough
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What is the greenhouse effect?
Gases that allow sunlight to heat the Earth and they hold onto the heat.
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The only planet that supports life and has water.
Earth
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The shape of the Earth is?
An oblate spheroid
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What is a transform boundary?
Plates moving side to side that cause earthquakes.
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Waves that break far out and gently spill on the shoreline due to flat coastlines are called what?
Spilling breakers
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What are two of the air mass fronts?
Stationary and Occluded Or Cold and Warm
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What are all the phases of the moon?
New moon, waxing crescent, 1st quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, 3rd quarter, waning crescent, new moon.