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100
The process by which plants convert the Sun's electromagnetic radiation (light) into stored chemical energy (glucose).
What is photosynthesis?
100
Name for a type of mechanical weathering in which water repeatedly collects in rock crevices, freezes and expands, breaking the rock down into smaller and smaller pieces.
What is frost wedging?
100
After water runs down hills and collects in lakes, ponds, the next step in the process known as the water cycle
What is evaporation?
200
Name for the annual changes in temperature throughout Earth's orbit, caused by the tilt of the Earth's axis with respect to the ecliptic (its plane of orbit).
What are seasons?
200
The three geographic regions of North Carolina (left to right).
What are blue ridge, piedmont, and coastal plains?
200
The driving force behind the water cycle
What is The Sun?
300
Theory that states that the Universe started as a single point that rapidly expanded.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
300
The type of rock most likely to contain fossils.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
The name for the deep water ocean current that is driven by differences in temperature and salinity.
What is thermohaline circulation or Great Conveyor Belt
400
This law states that planets revolve around the Sun in elliptical orbits.
What is Kepler's Law?
400
The type of plate boundary that forms mountain ranges such as the Himalayas.
What is a continental/continental convergent boundary
400
Geographic areas characterized by a moderate climate, thanks to the high heat capacity of water
What are coastal areas?
500
Name for the tide that occurs twice a month when the high tides are highest and the low tides are lowest. Associated with new and full Moon phases.
What is Spring Tide?
500
Law of stratigraphy that states that the oldest layers of sedimentary rock are found on the bottom
What is the law of superposition?
500
The property of water that causes slower temperature changes compared with the substances on land.
What is high heat capacity?
600
Nuclear reaction that produces the Sun's heat and light.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
600
The three types of particles that make up soil
What are sand, silt, and clay?
600
During flooding events, this stage of the water cycle has slowed or stopped
what is infiltration?
700
The point around which two orbiting bodies revolve
(not to scale)
What is a barycenter?
700
A type of chemical weathering defined by the loss of electrons.
What is oxidation?