Space
What is the name of the model of the solar system widely accepted today?
Heliocentric model
What is a glacier made of?
Snow
A small stream that flows into a bigger stream or river is called what?
A Tributary
What type of star is the Sun?
Yellow Star
What are the different types of weathering?
chemical and mechanical
This is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans can see.
Visible light
Where do alpine glaciers form?
On mountains
The area near a river that floods when water levels get to be too high is known as what?
Floodplain
___ are areas of gas on the sun that are cooler than the other gas around them.
Sunspots
When a river deposits sediment as it flows into an ocean or lake it forms what?
A delta
What is the energy called that can travel through space in the form of waves?
electromagnetic radiation
Large rocks or boulders that are transported by glaciers are called?
Erratics
New deposition seals off the ends and the cut-off becomes an ___ that will eventually dry up.
Oxbow Lake
When we look at the sun, what layer are we viewing?
Photosphere
The process of water traveling upward through the soil is called what?
Capillarity
Who discovered the shape of a planet's orbit is actually an ellipse?
Johannes Kepler
What is a mixture of sediments that a glacier deposits directly on the surface?
Till
An area of land where the surface water and groundwater drain into a particular body of water is known as a what?
A Watershed
What is the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere?
Corona
Groundwater is stored in permeable layers of rock, if a well is drilled what is the correct order of the different layers that it would move through?
unsaturated zone (zone of aeration), water table, saturated zone
A ___ is a transparent object with refracting surfaces that separate white light into spectrum colors.
Prism
What are the 2 processes of glacial movement?
Basal Slip and Internal Plastic Flow
Which river do the Great Lakes flow into?
St. Lawrence River
A huge loop of plasma that connects sunspots.
In a river system where would there be more erosion and deposition in the meander?
more erosion on the outside curve
more deposition on the inside curve