Spheres
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100

Water vapor 

Atomsphere

100

Forms when minerals that form from soultions or sediment from older rocks get pressed and cemented together

Sedimentary rock

100

Are the trace or remains of an organism pressured in sedimentary rock. 

Fossil

100

Sunlight shines equally on the southern and northern Hemispheres

Equinox 

100

Look feathery, and end their curls and white

Cirrus Cloud

200

Living things

Biosphere

200

Forms when Magma or lava cools and hardens to become solid

Igneous Rock 

200

What is Aphelion 

Where the object is farthest from the sun

200

is a force attraction beteween object due tho their mass 

Gravity

200

the sea level rises several meters. Backing up rivers and flooding shore and can be destrucitve. 

Storm Surge

300

Frozen water

Cryosphere

300

Forms when Pressure, Temperature, or chemical process existing rock 

Metamorphic Rock 

300

What is perihelion 

Where the object is clostest to the sun. 

300

Earth and other planets orbit the sun 

Heliocentric model 

300

Are thick and puffy on top and generally flat on bottom

Cumulus cloud

400

Liquid water

Hydrosphere

400

Is the principle that states that all geologic changes occurs suddenly 

Catastrophism 

400

Terrestrial planets are 

Mercury, Venus, Earth, mars

400

Spinning of a body, such as a planet, on its axis 

Rotation

400

are thin and flat, and their edges are not defined as the lowest cloud

Stratus Cloud

500

Layers of the geosphere

Core, Mantle, Crust

500

States that geologic that happen in the past can be explained by current geologic process

Uniformitarianism

500

Gas Giant planets are 

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

500

Is a destructive rotainoal columm of air has very high wind speeds and is a funnel cloud. 

Tornado