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Plate Tectonics
Weathering
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Wetlands, and
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2. What does a star’s color indicate?
Its temperature
Blue – hottest
Reds- cooler
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3. Why do astronomers put telescopes in space rather than on Earth?
To avoid the interference of the atmosphere.
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4. What are the two distinctions between the inner and outer planets?
Terrestrial or rocky
Gas Giants
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5. H-R diagram shows what information about the stars?
Surface temperature and the absolute magnitude
(remember absolute is compared at same distance, apparent is how bright they appear to be from earth)
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6. What is the composition of the atmosphere?
78% Nitrogen
21% Oxygen
1% trace gases (CO2, water vapor, etc.)
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7. The type of precipitation that is formed by freezing in mid air.
Sleet
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8. How would you describe a cirroculumus cloud?
Cirro – high
Cumulus - puffy
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9. An area where air masses meet and cause weather events.
Fronts
Named for who is moving:
cold front
warm front
stationary front
occluded front
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10. Describe the job of an anemometer and a barometer
Anemometer – measures wind speed
Barometer – wind pressure (in millibars)
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11. Why is the Earth’s inner core solid and the outer is fluid?
Although the inner core is hotter, there is more pressure, keeping it solid.
The outer core is more fluid and causes the earth to have a magnetic field.
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12. What theories were combined to create the plate tectonics theory?
Continental drift (Pangaea)
Seafloor Spreading (mid ocean ridge and subduction)
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13. Identify the motion each boundary makes: Convergent divergent transform
Convergent – comes together (compression)
Divergent – pulls apart (tension)
Transform – slips past (strike –slip)
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14. Are the plates of the Earth still moving?
Yes, at about a rate of 2 cm per year.
(that is how quickly average people’s fingernails grow)
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15. Which type of crust typically subducts and why?
Oceanic crust is less dense than continental crust, so when they bump into each other, oceanic subducts.
Oceanic/oceanic – older denser stays up
Continental/continental – form folds and mountains
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16. Describe the differences between chemical and mechanical weathering.
Chemical is breaking down rock using chemical reactions
Mechanical breaking down the rock using physical means
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17. How are erosion and weathering different?
Weathering just breaks down the rock
Erosion moves the pieces away and deposits in another area.
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18. Saltatation, abrasion, and deflation are all types of what kind of erosion?
Wind erosion
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19. What are the three types of rock?
Sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous
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20. Name 2 types of mass movements of soil or rock.
Land slides
Mud flows
Rock slides
Creep –(slow moving)
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21. Can you identify the forces that caused this erosion?
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Water

22. Name two of the 4 types of wetlands
Marshes –dominated by soft stemmed vegetation
Swamps– woody plants
Bogs -freshwater wetlands with spongy peat deposits, evergreen trees and shrubs, and a floor covered by moss
Fens- grasses, reeds and wildflowers
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23. The area where all the water drains into a certain sight (big bathtub)
Watershed
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24. Which of the following could hit you in the head here on Earth
Which of the following could hit you in the head here on Earth? Meteor Meteorite Meteoid
Meteorite – this is a meteoroid after it has entered Earth’s atmosphere
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25. AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE Can you sing any words to this song?
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace. Where hydrogen was built into helium at temperatures of millions of degrees…
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26. Who is energy man and how does he get here, dude?
Energy “man” comes to earth on electromagnetic WAVES
“rad”iation
Convection
Conduction
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