Astronomy
1. The study of everything
beyond Earth.
2. Heliocentric- model of the solar
system in which the sun is in
the center of the solar system
and all planets move around in
perfect circles GeocentricModel of the solar system in
which the Earth is in the center
and all planets/sun move
around in perfect circles
3. The Geocentric theory
4. Studying Venus and how it
went through phases similar to
the moon
5. Nicholas Copernicus
6. Universe
7. The initial explosion that
resulted in the formation and
expansion of the universe
8. The fact that galaxies are still
moving and that energy still
remains after the explosion
9. Expanding
10.Distance
11.light year = 9.4605284 ×
10,000,000,000,000 kilometers
or 9.5 million million
12.The amount of distance light
can travel per unit of time
13.The distance that light travels
in one year
14.Oval or elliptical
15.Big bang—spinning nebula—
formation of sun—formation of
the solar system
16.It would drift into outer space
17.Mass and distance
18.Meteoroids—Meteors—
Meteorites
19.Between Mars and Jupiter
20.A loose collection of ice, dust,
and small rocky particles with a
long narrow ellipse around the
sun
21.Earth’s rotation
22.Earth’s rotation
23.Summer
24.Seasons
25.The two days of the year when
the sun reaches its greatest
distance north or south of the
Waning Gibbous—Third
Quarter—Waning Crescent
29.New Moon –Waxing
equator. Directly Towards or
Crescent—First Quarter—
Away from the sun
Waxing Gibbous—Full Moon—
26.The two days of the year in
which neither hemisphere is
Waning Gibbous—Third
Quarter—Waning Crescent
directly pointed towards or
30.Sun—Moon--Earth
away from the sun
31.Sun—Earth—Moon
27. Winter---Summer
28.8. New Moon –Waxing
Crescent—First Quarter—
Waxing Gibbous—Full Moon—
32.Sun, Moon, and Earth in a
straight line
33.Because you have tides twice
per day on opposite sides of
Earth
Geology
15.Weathering—Erosion –
1. Oceanic and Continental
2. Oceanic-basalt
Continental-
Granite
3. Oceanic
4. Inner Core
5. Rock
6. Between the crust and the
mantle
7. Molten rock found
underground or inside the
volcano
8. As you near the center of earth
the temperature, density, and
pressure all increase
9. The transfer of thermal energy
(heat) through fluids. Heated
fluid rises…cool fluid drops
10.Mountains form
11.Subduction occurs
12.Basalt and Granite
13.Do this on your own
14.The breaking down of rock
Deposition—Cementation—
Compaction
16.When lava or magma cools
17.When any type of rock
undergoes tremendous heat
and pressure
18.Texture, grains, and the way in
which they were formed
19.If it came from the remains of
dead plants and animals
20.Renewable-can be replaced if it
runs out relatively easy and
quickly. Non-renewablecannot be replaced for millions
of years. Inexhaustible-will
never run out
21.Gneiss, Quartzite, and Slate
22.When grains are arranged in
parallel layers
23.Weathering breaks the rock
down….erosion carries it from
place to place by water, wind,
ice, or gravity
24.Deposition is the dropping off
of the sediment and erosion
carries it from place to place by
water, wind, ice, or gravity
25.Sedimentary
26.Lava or magma has to cool and
harden
27.It would have to melt, then
cool and harden
28.Tremendous amount of heat
and pressure
29.A naturally occurring inorganic
solid with a crystal structure
and definite chemical co
erosion carries it from place to
place by water, wind, ice, or
gravity
30.By color, streak, hardness,
luster, and cleavage or
fracture.
31.Skip this Question
32.That not protecting and
conserving soil can have
devastating effect on crops and
the quality of life. LESSON
LEARNED!!!
33.No plant roots to hold soil in
place.
34.Renewable-can be replaced if it
runs out relatively easy and
quickly. Non-renewablecannot be replaced for millions
of years. Inexhaustible-will
never run out.
35.Rock particles, minerals,
decayed organic material,
water, and air
36.Clay, Silt, Sand, Gravel. They all
differ in size and origins
Hydrology
1. The gradual change of Earths
average temperature over a
period of time
2. Chlorofluocarbons (CFC’s)
3. Global Warming…melting of
polar ice caps…Severe weather
Patterns
4. Draw on your own
5. The Sun
6. 3%
7. Ice Caps and Glaciers
8. Lakes, Rivers, Streams,
Underground
9. The Water Cycle
10. Continental Shelf, Continental
Slope, Abyssal Plains,
Seamounts, Deep Ocean
Trench, Volcanic Island
11.Sonar
12.Seamounts are a single
underwater mountain. Guyots
are single underwater volcanos
13.Seafloor spreading at midocean ridge and subduction at
deep ocean trenches
14.Evap=liquid to gas. Cond=gas
to liquid. Precip=any form of
water coming from the clouds
15. C. Shelf is relatively flat with a
gentle slope…C. Slope is a
steep slope that leads to ocean
floor
16.They all share very similar land
features
17.Light
18.Crest—trough—wavelength—
wave height
19.Wind
20. Strength of wind, amount of
time it blows, and the depth of
the water
21.Wind
22. Skip this question
8. Air has mass, density, and
Meteorology
1. A layer of gases that
pressure
9. Aneroid and Mercury
surround and protect the
planet
Barometers
10. As altitude increases,
2. Form of oxygen with three
pressure decreases
oxygen molecules in each
11.
atom instead of one located
12.Electromagnetic waves from
in stratosphere
3. Temperatures decreases
the sun heat the car and that
energy becomes trapped in
(colder) as you ascend in the
the car causing it to become
atmosphere….except in the
warmer
stratosphere.
4. Trap heat and block
radiation
5. The direct transfer of heat
13. The difference is heat is
thermal energy transferred
from one object to another
because of a temperature
through electromagnetic
difference, and temperature
waves. (empty space).
is a relative measure of how
6. The transfer of heat through
liquids.
7. The transfer of heat when
hot or cold something is
measured on a scale
14. The horizontal movement of
objects directly touch each
air from one place to
other. Ex: burning hand on
another caused by difference
stove
in air pressure.
15. The unequal heating of earths
surface within a small area
16. A local wind that blows from an
ocean or a lake towards land
caused by unequal heating along
the shoreline
17. A local wind that blows from land
Tropical=Dry and Warm.
Continental Polar=Dry and Cold
24. An area where two air masses
meet.
25. Humidity is measured with
psychrometer
26. Humidity is a measure of how
towards lakes or oceans caused
much moisture is in the
when land cools more quickly
air…relative humidity is a
than water
percentage of moisture in the air.
18. Bands of high speed winds 10 km
above the earth’s surface
19. The result of a column of air
100% means the air is completely
saturated
27. When warm air is forced
pushing down on an area.
upwards in a cumulonimbus
Barometer is how we measure it
clouds during a cold front.
20. Polar Easterlies, Prevailing
28. Warm water
Westerlies, and Trade Winds are
29. Do on your own
caused by global convection
30. Lines joining areas of equal
currents
21. When water vapor in the air
condenses to form liquid water or
ice crystals. Cooling of air and
the presence of particles in
the air are required
22. Similar temperature, pressure,
and humidity.
23. Maritime Tropical=Humid &
Warm. Maritime Polar= Humid
and Cold. Continental
pressure on a weather map
31. Lines joining areas of equal
temperature on a weather map
32. The average weather of a region
over long periods of time