Earth Science: Vocabulary ASSIGNMENT
Please write the vocabulary word and then the definition next to it. Make sure that your vocab words are numbered
and 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 OR do the same for flashcards with the hint on the front of the card. Also, please
draw a picture/hint 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 is a little over 130 words. Therefore, if you do 12 words per day (a short
amount of HW) you will have completed the vocab. Most of these you should know already and should be quick.
Please use your time wisely.
Environmental change:
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3.
4.
rate of change:
cyclic change:$
interface:$
dynamic equilibrium:
Earth stats/maps
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oblate spheroid:$
Altitude of Polaris:$
importance of altitude of Polaris in finding location on Earth.
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/blue shift:$
galaxy:$
Milky Way:
Energy
1. kinetic energy:$
2. potential energy:$
3. wavelength:$
4. electromagnetic spectrum:
5. visible spectrum:
6. spectral absorption lines: $
7. refraction:$
8. reflection:$
9. conduction:$
10. convection:$
11. radiation:$
12. heat source:
13. heat sink:
14. Direction of movement of heat (source/sink):$
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/exfoliation:$
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. continental drift: $
7. mid-ocean ridge:$
8. sea floor spreading:$
9. magnetic reversal (reverse polarity):$
10. plate tectonic theory:
11. divergent plate boundary:$
12. convergent plate boundary:$
13. transform plate boundary:$
14. subduction:$
15. earthquake:
16. focus (of EQ):-$
17. epicenter (of EQ):-$
18. seismic waves:
19. primary or P-wave (compressional):$
20. secondary or S-wave (shear):$
21. crust:$
22. outer core: $
23. inner core:$
24. oceanic crust:$
25. mantle convection:$
26. Moho (Mohorovoric discontinuity)-:$
27. continental crust:$
minerals and rocks
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2.
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8.
sedimentary rock:$
monomineralic:$
crystal:
crystalline:
cleavage:$
fracture:$
streak:$
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. contact metamorphism: $
21. parent rock:$
22. regional metamorphism:$
23. foliated: $
24. banding: $
25. inorganic:
26. silicate:
27. Silicate tetrahedron:$
28. Clastic: $
29. bioclastic:$
30. magma:$
31. lava:$
32. soil:
33. residual soil:$
34. transported soil:$
35. soil profile: $
36. soil horizon:$
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