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geology - ✔✔Study of the earth meteorology - ✔✔the study of weather classify rocks - 3 - ✔✔sedimentary metamorphic igneous sedimentary - ✔✔-compile sand, seashells, and other materials
- grow in layers metamorphic - ✔✔-rocks forms b/c of heat and pressure below the Earth's surface
- crystals may form ignous - ✔✔magma when it moves up surface therefore cooled lava form rocks richter magnitude scale - ✔✔Measures the Magnitude of the earthquake three zones where earthquakes strikes the most - ✔✔the pacific rim, the alpide seismic belt, the mid alantic ridge
earth has one planet that covers - ✔✔72% of the planet and 97% of the planets water 5 oceans - ✔✔Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, Southern Earth's age - ✔✔4.6 billion years old Layers of the atmosphere - ✔✔troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere Troposphere - ✔✔The lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere where do jet stream and all-weather changes occur? - ✔✔The lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere Stratosphere - ✔✔location of the ozone layer Mesosphere - ✔✔contains millions of meteros burn and third layer layer iononsphere - ✔✔reflects radio waves Thermosphere - ✔✔uppermost layer
what are clouds made from - ✔✔small droplets of water or ice that are spread out from each other. three types of clouds - ✔✔cirrus, cumulus, stratus cirrus - ✔✔feathers can indicate rain/snow cumulus - ✔✔White puffy pillows gather when heavy rain stratus - ✔✔foggy, flat Kelvin (K) freezing point - ✔✔273.15k kelvin (k) boiling point - ✔✔373.15 k Fahrenheit (F) freezing point - ✔✔ 32 f Fahrenheit (F) boiling point - ✔✔ 212 F Celsius (c) freezing point - ✔✔ 0 C
Celsius (c) boiling point - ✔✔ 100 c Covert Celsius to Fahrenheit - ✔✔F=9/5 C times 32 Convert Fahrenheit to Celsius - ✔✔C= 5/9 (F-32) to get temps in kelvin - ✔✔K=C plus 273. oldest fossil is - ✔✔3.5 billion years AU - ✔✔astronomical unit light year - ✔✔the distance light travels in one year roughly 6 trillions years 1 AU = - ✔✔93 millions miles the avg distance from earth to sun is 93 millions miles which translate to - ✔✔ 8 light years planet - ✔✔a body larger than an asteroid or comet
how many planets does venus have - ✔✔ 0 how many planets does earth have - ✔✔ 1 how many planets does mars have - ✔✔ 2 how many planets does Jupiter have - ✔✔ 63 how many planets does Saturn have - ✔✔ 61 how many planets does Uranus have - ✔✔ 27 how many planets does Neptune have - ✔✔ 13 meteor (shooting star) - ✔✔hits earths atmosphere and glows comets - ✔✔snowballs composed mainly of ice and rock long period comets - ✔✔ 200 years or more short period comets - ✔✔ 200 years or less
earthquakes occur along - ✔✔faults Dinosaurs - ✔✔Mesozoic Era what elements makes up most of earth's atmosphere - ✔✔nitrogen the process that takes place inside the sun's core is - ✔✔nuclear fusion absolute zero = - ✔✔ 0 Kelvin a comet's tail is visible when - ✔✔the comet is close enough to the sun radiometric dating - ✔✔observing the natural decay of radioactive elements in a fossil what are fast flowing narrow air currents located in earth atmosphere - ✔✔jet streams why are regions of Earth unequal in daylight and darkness - ✔✔because the earth rotates on a tilted axis three types of chemical reactions - ✔✔combination, decomposition, combustion
Newton's third law - ✔✔For every action, there is an opposite reaction Newton's Law or Universal Gravitation - ✔✔all objects in the universe attract each other with equal force calc work performance - ✔✔w=fd energy is measured - ✔✔Joules P.E turns in to - ✔✔K.E when moving kinetic energy - ✔✔energy of motion potential energy - ✔✔stored energy calc power equation - ✔✔p= work /time power is measure in - ✔✔watts shorter wavelengths - ✔✔higher frequency longer wavelength - ✔✔lower frequency
nonrenewable resource - ✔✔oil, natural gas, and coal renewable resource - ✔✔wind energy, and solar energ
