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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
