Earth Science: Vocabulary ASSIGNMENT
Please write the vocabulary word and then the definition next to it. Make sure that your vocab words are in a
separate column from the definitions so that you can fold the paper over covering the definition but still be able to
see the vocabulary word. Also, please draw a picture on the folded side of the paper next to the definitions with a $
next to them. When you return there will be an open vocab quiz!
TIP: I made sure that the vocabulary was less than 100 words. Therefore, if you do 10 words per day (a short
amount of HW) you will have completed the vocab. Please use your time wisely.
Environmental change:
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rate of change:
cyclic change:
interface:
dynamic equilibrium:
Earth stats/maps
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oblate spheroid:
Polaris:
altitude:
importance of altitude of Polaris: $
lithosphere:
hydrosphere:
parallels of latitude:$
meridians of longitude:$
Prime meridian:$
field:
isoline:
isotherm:
isobar:
field gradient:
contour line:
contour interval:
Universe..in the beginning…
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universe:
Big Bang theory:
Doppler effect:$
red shift:
galaxy:
Milky Way:
Energy
1. kinetic energy:
2. potential energy:
3. wavelength:
4. electromagnetic spectrum:
5. visible spectrum:
6. absorption:
7. absorption lines: $
8. refraction:
9. reflection:
10. conduction:
11. convection:
12. radiation:
13. heat source:
14. heat sink:
15. heat:
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition weathering:
1. sediment:
2. physical weathering:
3. chemical weathering:
4. frost action (ice wedging):
5. oxidation:
6. root wedging:
7. abrasion:
8. carbonation:
9. pressure unloading
10. erosion:
11. mass movement:
12. stream channel:
13. tributary:
14. stream bed:
15. meander:
16. delta:
17. alluvial fan:
18. glacier:
19. striations:
20. moraine:
21. drumlin:
22. finger lake:
23. sandbar:
24. ocean current:
25. deposition:
26. sorted sediments:$
27. graded bedding:$
28. horizontal sorting:$
29. vertical sorting:$
crustal motion / tectonics / earthquakes:
1. original horizontality:
2. folded strata:$
3. tilted strata:$
4. fault:
5. subsidence:
6. geosyncline: $
7. continental drift:
8. mid-ocean ridge:
9. sea floor spreading:
10. magnetic reversal (reverse polarity):$
11. plate tectonic theory:
12. divergent plate boundary:
13. convergent plate boundary:
14. transform plate boundary:
15. subduction:
16. earthquake:
17. focus (of EQ):-$
18. epicenter (of EQ):-$
19. seismic waves:
20. primary or P-wave (compressional):
21. secondary or S-wave (shear):
22. crust:
23. mantle:
24. outer core:
25. inner core:
26. oceanic crust:
27. mantle convection:
28. Moho (Mohorovoric discontinuity)-:
29. continental crust:
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Earth Science Vocabulary 11: rocks and minerals
1. sedimentary rock:
2. monomineralic:
3. crystal:
4. crystalline:
5. cleavage:
6. fracture:
7. streak:
8. luster:
9. hardness:
10. importance of atomic structure (arrangement of atoms):
11. evaporite/precipitate:
12. strata:
13. igneous rock:
14. polymineralic:
15. intrusive:
16. extrusive:
17. metamorphic rock:
18. rock cycle:
19. mineral:
20. transition zone:
21. contact metamorphism:
22. parent rock:
23. regional metamorphism:
24. foliated:
25. banding:
26. rock-forming mineral:
27. silicon-oxygen tetrahedron:
28. inorganic:
29. silicate:
30. clastic
31. bioclastic:
32. magma:
33. lava:
34. rock:
Topic 13: Geologic history
1. relative age dating:
2. absolute age dating:
3. principle of superposition:
4. intrusion:
5. extrusion:
6. joint:
7. vein:
8. correlation:
9. outcrop:
10. bedrock:
11. walking the outcrop:
12. fossil:
13. index fossil:
14. geologic time scale:
15. unconformity:
16. uniformitarianism:
17. radioactive decay:
18. parent material:
19. daughter product:
20. half-life:
21. radioactive dating:
22. carbon-14 dating (radio-carbon dating):
Topic 6: Insolation
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insolation:
intensity of insolation:
terrestrial radiation:
angle on insolation (incidence):
direct rays:
duration of insolation:
greenhouse effect:
greenhouse gases:
global warming:
daily temperature lag:
annual temperature lag:
Topic 7: Weather
1. weather:
2. climate:
3. atmospheric variables:
4. condensation:
5. adiabatic temperature change:
6. atmospheric(air) pressure:
7. evaporation:
8. jet stream:
9. pressure gradient:
10. planetary wind belts:
11. water vapor:
12. relative humidity:
13. saturated:
14. dew point temperature:
15. aerosols:
16. cloud:
17. condensation nuclei:
18. precipitation:
19. air mass:
20. source region:
21. low pressure center:
22. cyclone:
23. high pressure center:
24. anti-cyclone:
25. front:
26. cold front:
27. warm front:
28. hurricane:
29. station model:
30. barometer:
31. psychrometer:
32. thermometer:
Topic 4: “The Old”: sun, moon, stars: earth motion
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celestial sphere:
apparent daily motion:
arc:
rotation:
revolution:
orbit:
apparent diameter:
phases (of the moon):
Foucault pendulum:
coriolis effect:
ellipse:
focus (of an ellipse):
eccentricity (of an ellipse):
14. perihelion:
15. aphelion:
16. orbital speed (velocity):
17. gravitational pull
18. period of revolution:
19. period of rotation:
20. year:
21. day:
22. geocentric model:
23. heliocentric model:
24. zenith:
25. horizon:
26. altitude:
27. azimuth:
Topic 4: “The New”: The Universe..in the beginning…
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asteroid:
moon:
planet:
comet:
meteor:
impact crater:
solar system:
terrestrial planets:
Jovian planets:
Topic 5: Energy
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joule:
specific heat:
phase change:
melting:
freezing:
vaporization:
condensation:
soil:
residual soil:
transported soil:
soil profile:
soil horizon:
Basics/density/water:
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observation:
inference:
mass:
volume:
density:
phase (state):
direct proportion:
inverse proportion: