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Continental Rise
Gradually merges into the continental slope as a more gradual incline.
Extends seaward for hundreds of kilometers.
Deep-Ocean trenches
Long, relatively narrow troughs that are the deepest parts of the ocean.
Continental shelf
Gently sloping submerged surface that extends from the shoreline towards the deep-ocean basin.
Challenger Deep
Deepest part of the ocean/earth.
Abyssal plain
Without bottom, deep, incredibly flat features
Thick accumulations of sediment that have buried an otherwise rugged ocean floor.
Plankton
All organisms that drift with the ocean currents, algae, animals, and bacteria dont matter
phytoplankton
plant plankton
zooplankton
animal plankton
nekton
free swimmers
benthos
bottom dwellers
Trophic level
Feeding stage levels
Aphotic zone
No light zone.
Intertidal zone
The area where the land and the ocean meet and overlap.
Refraction
Bending especially in waves.
Fetch
The distance that wind has traveled across open water.
Frontal Wedging
Lifting
Cooler denser air mass acts as a barrier over which the warmer, less dense air rises.
Adiabatic temperature changes
Temperature changes in which heat energy is neither added nor subtracted.
Stable Air
Resists upward movement.
Air that is cooler will sink back down.
Unstable Air
Rises as long as it is warmer and less dense than the surrounding air.
Orthographic lifting
When an air mass is forced from a low elevation to a higher elevation as it moves over rising terrain.
Localized convective Lifting
unequal surface heating causes localized pockets of air to rise because of their buoyancy.
Nicolaus Copernicus
He first proposed that the Earth is a planet and that planets orbit around the Sun, proposes the first heliocentric model.
Tycho Brahe
Established an observatory near copenhagen. Made precise observations of Mars.
Didn’t agree with Copernican on a heliocentric model.
Johannes Kepler
Derived the three basic laws of planetary motion.
The path of each planet around the Sun is an ellipse, with the Sun at one focus rather than at the center.
A planet moves faster when closest to the Sun and slower when farthest from the Sun.
Distant planets orbit the Sun at slower average speeds than planets located closer to the Sun.
Galileo
Described behavior of moving objects. Created the first telescope.
Observed Jupiter’s four largest satellites, or moons.
Planets are spheres rather than just points of light, as had previously been thought.
Venus exhibits phases just as the Moon does, and Venus appears smallest when it is in full phase and thus is farthest from Earth.
The moon’s surface is not smooth, as the ancients had proclaimed.
Sir Isaac Newton
Formalized the idea of inertia, as his first law.
Proposed the law of gravitation.
Law of Gravitation
Every body in the universe attracts every other body with a force that is directly proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
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