Sci Final Matching

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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.