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Weather
Earth's Systems
Forces that change the Earth
The planets
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A climate is the patter of weather that occurs in an area over many years.
What is a climate?
100
Earthquakes are vibrations, or shaking, produced when rocks break along a fault.
What are Earthquakes?
100
Erosion is a process that wears away surface materials and moves them from one place to another.
What is an erosion?
100
The groups are Inner planets and Outer planets, inner Planet have rocky crusts, dense mantle layers and very dense cores. And outer planets are gaseous with layer of hydrogen gas.
Into what two groups are the planet divided and what are there characteristic?
100
The moon is approximately 3 billion years old.
how old is the moon?
200
Longshore Current works when shoreline moves tons of loose sediment; caused by waves hitting the shoreline at an angle.
How does longshore current works?
200
The earth's crust is the outer layer which contains silicon and aluminum.
What is the Earth's crust?
200
Sandstorms are strong winds that blows in sandy deserts.
What are sandstorm?
200
Mar's axis is tilted at almost the same angle and in the same direction as Earth's.
Why does Mars have seasons?
200
Mercury
What is the 1st planet from the sun?
300
Surface processes that weaken and break rock into smaller and smaller pieces.
What is ice weathering?
300
Shield volcano, cone volcano and composite volcano.
What are the type of volcanoes
300
The greater the mass of an object, the greater its force of gravity is.
What are the effects of gravity?
300
Mercury has a weak gravity, which prevents it from retaining an atmosphere.
Why does Mercury have no atmosphere?
300
A plasma is a fourth state of matter consisting of charged particles of nuclei or ions.
What is a plasma?
400
Ocean current affects climates near the coast. Winds blowing from sea are often moister than those blowing from land.
How do ocean currents affect climate?
400
Seismic wave are wave generated by an earthquake.
What are seismic wave?
400
The surface atmospheric pressure is about 90 times greater than it is on Earth making it very hot.
Why is the surface of Venus so hot?
400
Corona
What is the sun's thin outer atmosphere called?
500
Mechanical Weather is when rocks are broken down to by a physical processes and Chemical Weathering occurs when chemical dissolves the rocks.
What is mechanical weathering and chemical weathering?
500
Seismograph stations are where scientist record and monitor earthquake activity.
What are seismograph stations?
500
27 days and 8 hours
How long would it takes to go to the moon?
500
A meteoroid is a celestial body that can range in size from a speck to a large object.
What is a meteoroid?