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remain or traces of a living thing
Fossil
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4\.5 billion to 541 million years ago
ANnelid
precambrian Fossil
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541 million to 252 million years ago
Phanerosteon phonax
Paleozoic Fossil
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252 million to 66 million years ago
Dinosaur
Mesozoic
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66 million years ago to today
dragonfly
Cenozoic
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Form when partically plant or animal pressed and cenement together
Sedimentary Rock
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an energy rich substance formed the remains of organisms
Fossil Fuel
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The rigid outermost layer of the earth, 50-100 km thick, consits of crust and upper most mantle
Lithosphere
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The hot rock layer of the earth beneath the crust and surrounding the core
299 km deep
Mantle
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A layer of molten iron and nickle that surround the inner core
5,100 km deep
Outer core
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A dense sphere of solid iron and nickle in the center of the earth
Inner core
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The theory that pieces or plates of the earth lithosphere are in constant motion
Plate Tectonis
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When 2 block of earth suddenly slip past one
Earthquake
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Break of earth lithosp
here which block move or slip
Fault
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Surface above earthquake focuse
Epicenter
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Vibration travel through earth carrying energy release during
seismic wave
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first seismic wave(faster)
Primary wave
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second seismic wave slower wave than primary wave
Secondary wave
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the direct transfer of energy through empty space by electromagnetic wave
Radiation
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The transfer of heat from one to another by direct contact of particle matter
Conduction
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transfer of heat by movements of a fluid
convection
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in the sun, hot plasma rises from the core toward the surface where it cools and sinks back toward from the core
Convection current
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Dark, cooler region on the surface of the moon
Sunspot
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energy from sun converted into electrical or thermal energy
Solar Power
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Device converting solar energy into electricity
Photovoltaic cell
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A method of Coverting solar energy into heat without pumps or fans
Passive Solar Heating
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focuses infrared light at an object to detect and measure energy or radiation coming from surface detector translate amount of electricity
Infrared thermometer
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4 vent from which magma, gas, and ash are erupted and the structure built by such eruptions
Volcano
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Most common… steep conical hills… usually have a prominent crater at the top
Cinder Cone
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Large, active over long period, and erupt periodically, common have snow-covered peaks
Composite
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largest volcano, brad with gentle slopes, shaped like a warrdor shield lying flat on the earth. Built by lava flows during repeated eruption.
shield
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form from slow extrusion of thick silicic lave… small do not have a crater.
Lava Dome
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molten mixture of rock-forming substances
Magma
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Magma that reaches the surface and the rock formed when liquid lava hardens.
Lava
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where the pacific plate meet
%75 of volcano come from this
Ring of Fire
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Heat energy from beneath earth use to generate electricity
Geothermal energy
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Long-term change in the average weather patters across earth like rising sea level
glabal climate chage
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Envelope of gases surrounding the earth
Atmosphere
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A force is result of weight of a column of air pushing down q
Air Pressure
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The lowest layer of the Earth atmosphere where weather occurs
Trosphere
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Gas molecule of oxygen contain 3 oxygen atoms instead of the usual 2
Ozone
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Layer in stratosphere 20-35 km above the surface of earth concentration of ozone is produce solar ultra violet (UV) rays
Ozone layer
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Chlorine compound formerly use in aerosol air conditioners and refrigerators.
When release in upper atmosphere destroy ozone layer
Chlorofluorocarbons(CFCs)
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The process by which heat is trap in the atmosphere by water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases that form a “blanket around earth
Greenhouse effect
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Daily rise and fall of earth water on shore as a result of combination of earth rotation cause by gravity pull of moon
Ocean tides
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A system of magnetic fields that shield the earth from harmful solar and radiation Generated by the electrically charged a milten iron in the outer core of earth
Earth magnetic field
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Process want to use water and energy make food
Photosynthesis
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Balloon filled with helum
Piball
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Deep ocean current drive by different in water desity controlled by temperature(therme) and salinity (hallne)
Thermohaline circualtion
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Renewable energy source that uses the temperature difference between the deep cold and warmer surface waters of the Ocea generate electric
Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC)
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Warmer than average ocean temperature in the Pacific Ocean causing the Pacific jet stream to move south and spread further East
El Nino
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Opposite of El Nino to move north (colder)
La Nina
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Undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor produced a disvergent plate boundary
Mid Ocean ridge
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Determines the distance of an object under water by recording echoes of sound waves
Sonar ( sound Navigation)
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Bottom of Ocean that can be rich in minerals where the matter is heated as it come in contact
with magma
Ocean Floor
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Magma rises from mantle makes new sea floor. add new material to sea floor
Sea Floor Spreading
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Forms when oceanic crust bends downward from subd\`uction
Deep ocean trench
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Process which ocean floors sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench back into the mantle
Subduction
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Water diswave and made a wave
Tsunami
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Electricity generated from the movement of tides.
Tidal energy
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continuous water circulate from earth surface to Atmosphere
Water cycle
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Rain, snow and sleet from rain clouds
Percipitation
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Water running from land into the ocean
Runoff
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Sun heats the waters and dries it up
Evaporation
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Water vapor in the attmosphere turns to water
vapor
COndensation
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\ 3Rainwater having an abnormally high content of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide and showing a pit between 2 and 5 as a result of air pollution by combus
tion products of fuel
Acid rain
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Water that fills the cracks and pores in underground soil and rock layers
Ground water
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Materials like, sand gravel that allow water to pass easily through them
permeable
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Material that water does not easily pass through
Impermeable
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Underground later of rocks soil that hold water
Watertable
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The diffusion of water through a semipermeable
Osmosis
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Electricity produced by the kinetic energy of water moving over a waterfall or dam
Hydropower
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A tropical storm that has winds at 119 kilometers per hours or higher; typically about 600 km across
Hurricane
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Narrow, violently rotate colum fair that extend from a thunderstorm to the ground
Tornado
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Use wind kintetic energy to generate electricity through a wind turnel
WInd power
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Device converted wind kinetic energy into electrical energy
WInd turbine
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The earth land of the record of earth history
Geologic time scale
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The age based relation and age
Relative Dating
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Techniques use specific ages if there is more new and vise versa
Absolute Dating
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large steam of moving water that flows through the ocean
Ocean current
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aquifer
underground layer of rock, soil that hold water
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imagine line pass through earth center, North, South Ples, rotation cause day and night
Earth axis
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Angel of earth axis of rotation is tilted as it travel around sun current , 23.4 degre
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Earth titl
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earth has season bc it axis it tilt
season
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distance Norths from Equator measure in degrees
Latitude
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halfway be
tween N and S poles
Equator
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distance in degree east or west of the prime meridian
Longtitude
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zero degree longtitude
Prime Meridian
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different time at place 24 time zone
each zone is 15 degrees wide (360 degrees / 24 = 15 degrees)
Time Zone
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Model of all part of earth seen above
Map
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Sphere represent Earth surface
Globe
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One half of hemisphere
Hemisphere
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Particles in air caused by chemical
Air pollution
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Gases and particles emitted by various sources
Emissions
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Huge body of air that has similar temperature, pressure and humidity
Air mass
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transition between 2 different air mass
Weather Front
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intense storm associated with a cumulonimbus cloud
Thunderstorm
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Potential of hydrogen Measure of concentration of hydrogen in a solution