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| What are the 4 areas of Earth Science? |
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- Astronomy - Meteorology - Oceanography - Geology |
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| What Earth's 4 major spheres? |
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- Troposphere - Stratusphere - Mesosphere - Thermosphere |
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| What are the 3 parts of a geosphere? |
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| What is the difference between a rock and a mineral? |
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-Rock is made up of numerous minerals & compounds -Mineral is one pure substance |
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| What are the 3 types of rock? |
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- Igneous - Sedimentary - Metamorphic |
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| What is the difference between renewable and non-renewable? |
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renewable - solar, wind, tidal non-renewable - oil, natural gas, coal |
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| How much of Earth is covered by water? |
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| How much of the Earth's water is drinkable? |
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| Who are the 10 key astronomers? |
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Galileo Aristotle Hipparchus Copernicus Brahe Kepler Isaac Newton Erasthies Ptolemy |
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| What is the difference between Heliocentric and geocentric? |
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Geocentric is "the universe circles around the earth". Heliocentric is "the universe circles around the sun." |
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| What is the difference between rotation and revolution? |
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Rotation is when the earth spins around on its axis. Revolution is the earth circles around the sun. |
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| What are the phases of the moon? |
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1. New Moon 2. Waxing crescent 3. First Quarter 4. Waxing gibbous 5. Full moon 6. Gibbous waning 7. Third quarter 8. Waning crescent -repeat- |
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1. Mercury 2. Venus 3. Earth 4. Mars 5. Jupiter 6. Saturn 7. Uranus 8. Neptune 9. Pluto |
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| Any size group of interacting parts that form a complex whole. |
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| What are the 8 properties of a mineral? |
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1. color - different elements can give the same mineral different colors 2. streak - color of a mineral in its powdered form 3. lustre - how light is reflected 4. crystal form - visual expression of a mineral's atom arrangement 5. hardness - Mohs scale rates the hardness of a mineral (1 - 10) 6. Cleavage - Does a mineral break of a flat even surface 7. Fracture - is breaking in any direction in an uneven break 8. Density - The ratio of an objects mass (Density = mass/volume) |
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1. Magma forms 2. It cools & hardens into igneous rock 3. Earth surface rocks become sediment 4. Sedimentary rock is compacted into rocks 5. The rocks are changes by heat, pressure & fluids and becomes a metamorphic rock |
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| What is the Mohs hardness scale? |
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| Rates the hardness of minerals on a scale of 1 to 10 |
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| What is hydro-electric energy? |
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| Energy that comes from water |
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| Energy that comes from the weather |
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| What is geo-thermal energy? |
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| Energy that comes from the center of the earth. |
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| Energy that comes from an atom? |
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| Energy that comes from tides. |
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| What are the 3 types of pollution? |
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| What is the difference between erosion and weathering? |
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Erosion - Eroding of land due to water Weathering - The decomposition of rock at or near earth's surface |
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precipitation run-off evaporation condensation |
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| Thick ice masts that formed over hundreds or thousands of years |
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| The vibration of earth produced by the rapid release of energy |
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| A mountain formed of lava and ore pyroclastic material |
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| A tropical cyclonic storm having winds in excess of 119km/h (75 mph) |
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| A small very intense cyclonic storm w/ very high winds most oftened produced along cold fronts in conjunction w/severe thunderstorms. |
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| The Japanese word for a seismic sea wave. |
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| What are platetechonics and the continental drift? |
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Platetechonics - plates under the earths crust that shift to create mountains & land forms Continental drift - drifting apart of large land masses (continents) |
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| What is the supercontinent called? |
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| Evidences of previous life |
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Pacific Indian Atlantic Arctic |
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| What are the 7 continents? |
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1. Europe 2. North America 3. South America 4. Antartica 5. Asia 6. Australia 7. Africa |
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| What is a wave frequency? |
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| How many waves pass a point during a given amount of time |
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| Distance from one crest to the next |
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| What are the differences between weather & climate? |
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Weather - temperature in a given area Climates - average temperature in an area |
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| What is the tool to measure wind? |
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| What is the difference between hot air and cold air? |
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Hot air rises Cold air descends |
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| What about the surface of the moon? |
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Maria Highlands craters regolith |
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| ***Extra Credit*** What are the types of clouds? |
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Cirrocumulus Cirrostratus Cirrus Altocumulus Altostratus Cumulus Stratus Stratocumulus Nimbostratus Cumulonimbus |
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| Known for his start catalog. He located 850 which he divided into 6 groups according to their brightness. |
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| Tell me about Eratosthenes |
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| He calculated the circumference of the earth. |
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| He discovered that the earth was not flat but instead round. |
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| He made the first telescope. |
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| Tell me about Copernicus. |
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| He said the earth is a planet. He proposed a model of the solar system w/ the sun at the center. |
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| Tell me about Tycho Brahe. |
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| He observed Mars and he was far more precise than previously. |
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| He discovered 3 laws of planetary motion. |
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| He accounted for the movement of the planets know as the Ptolemysystem. |
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| Tell me about the moon's craters |
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| round depressions in the surface of the moon. |
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| Tell me about the moon's Maria |
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| Ancient beds of basaltic lava originated from asteroids |
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| Tell me about the moon's highlands |
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| light colored dense pitting on the moon's surface |
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| Tell me regolith on the moon's surface. |
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| igneous rock, glass beads, and fine lunar dust |
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| Which is the smallest ocean |
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