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Unit 1: Intro to Earth Science
Unit 2: Geology
Unit 3: Oceanography
Unit 4: Meteorology
Unit 5: Astronomy
100
The difference in data
What is Variance
100
Super-continent when all Earth land was connected 200 million years ago
What is Pangaea
100
The percentage of Earth covered by ocean
What is 72%
100
Most dominant gas in the Atmosphere
What is Nitrogen
100
Known as "Dirty Snowballs"
What are Comets
200
A conclusion that has not have 100% proof but is accepted to be true
What is a Theory
200
Tube where magma rises through a volcano
What is a Conduit
200
Below the Surface Layer where sunlight diminishes and temperature decreases rapidly
What is Thermocline
200
Protects us from harmful UV rays, located in Stratosphere
What is Ozone Layer
200
All physical existense
What is a Universe
300
Things in an experiment that do not change
What are Invariables
300
Made from a collection of smaller rocks or sand
What is Clastic Rock
300
Waves that form a tunnel and break along the shoreline due to medium slope
What is Plunging Breaker
300
Man-made chemicals found in refrigerators, air conditioners, and hairspray that destroy ozone
What are CFC's
300
Known as "Space Dust"
What are meteroids
400
Earth traveling around the sun once in a year
What is a Revolution
400
Rocks that form underground
What is Intrusive Igneous Rock
400
Reason why currents in the Northern Hemisphere deflect to the right and currents in the Southern Hemisphere deflect to the left
What is the Coriolis Effect
400
Reason why gases allow sunlight to heat the Earth and then they hold onto the heat
What is Greenhouse Effect
400
Law that the Universe is expanding and other galaxies are spreading apart
What is Hubble Law
500
First day of spring
What is Vernal Equinox
500
Super-ocean surrounding Pangaea 200 million years ago
What is Panthalassa
500
1000 year process starting at the North Pole and moves to the Equator then to the South Pole and then repeats
What is Global Conveyor Belt
500
Air mass that forms over land at the poles. = Low Humidity and Cold temperatures
What is Continental Polar
500
"Sun-Centered" Solar System Model
What is Heliocentric Model