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| Earth's Tilt | 23.5 degrees and the cause of the seasons.
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| Apogee | The furthest point of the moon's orbit from the Earth.
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| Perigee | The closest point of the moon's orbit from the Earth.
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| Perihelion | The closest point of the Earth's orbit from the sun.
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| Aphelion | The farthest point of the Earth's orbit from the sun.
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| Elliptical Orbit | The shape of the Earth's orbit.
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| Earth's Revolution | The Earth orbits the sun once in 365.24 days.
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| Earth's Rotation | Once in 24 hours, the cause of night and day, and the spinning of Earth on its axis.
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| Speed of Earth's Rotation | 1000 miles per hour.
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| Satellite | The moon is earth’s natural satellite.
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| Name in order the inner and outer planets of the solar system. | Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. There are 8 planets.
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| Light Year | The distance light travels in one year
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| Proxima Centauri | The closest star other than the sun to the earth.
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| Milky Way | The galaxy the earth is a part of.
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| Andromeda | The closest galaxy besides the Milky Way to earth.
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| Pangaea | The super-continent that existed 150,000,000 years ago.
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| Dates of Ice Ages | Most recent end of the advance was 17,000 years ago.
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| Age of the Earth | 4.6 billion years.
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| How do you find protons, neutrons, and electrons using a periodic table? | The atomic number equals the number of protons, the number of protons equals the number of electrons ( for a balanced atom), the rounded off atomic mass minus the atomic number equals the number of neutrons.
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| What is the mass and charge of the following particles?: | Protons, electrons, neutrons? Proton: mass=1, charge +, Electron mass=0, charge -, Neutron mass=1, charge =0(no charge).
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| Atomic Nucleus | The central part of an atom.
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| Energy Levels | The area of an atom where electrons occur, also called shell, orbit, rings, cloud.
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| Exothermic | A reaction or change that releases energy.
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| Homogeneous Mixture | A mixture that appears the same throughout; milk.
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| Heterogeneous Mixture | A mixture that does not appear the same throughout; oatmeal.
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| Mixtures | Two or more substances mixed but not chemically bonded (combined) together.
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| Compound | Two or more different elements chemically bonded together.
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| Physical Properties | Characteristics of a substance that can be observed; bendability, melting, change of state, changing form or appearance without changing the substance chemically.
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| Chemical Properties | Characteristic of a substance that determine how they will react with other substances chemically. Examples: The ability to combust, tarnish, rust, oxidize, electrolicize.
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| Electromagnetic Energy | Energy that travels as waves through space. Example: light.
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| Molecule | Two or more atoms combined chemically.
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| Potential energy | Energy that is stored, like snow at the top of a mountain.
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| Kinetic energy | The energy of movement, like water flowing down a mountain.
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| Electrical Energy | The energy of the movement of charged particles.
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| Chemical Energy | The energy found in chemical reactions.
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| Grams | The SI measurement for mass
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| Meters | The SI unit that measures the distance between two points.
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| Liters | The SI unit for volume.
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| SI Units | The International Standard of metric measurements.
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| Density | The amount of mass compared to its volume.
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| Volume | The amount of space an object occupies.
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| Element | A substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances, the building blocks of matter.
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| Substance | Anything that contains only one pure type of material.
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| Evaporation | The process of water in a liquid state, turning into a gas by using heat.
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| Condensation | The process of water vapor turning back into a liquid.
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| Precipitation | Water falling back to earth.
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| Freezing | When low temperatures make water a solid.
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| Polarity | The Hydrogen sides of water are positive and the Oxygen is negative.
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| Polar bonds in water molecules | The positive charges of the hydrogen atoms of water molecules make the bond between hydrogen and oxygen a polar bond.
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| Formula of Water | H2O
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| Ground water | Water that is stored underground.
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| Aquifers | Long Island’s large areas of groundwater.
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| Moraine | A large hill formed by glaciers.
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| Out wash Plains | The large sandy formations found downhill from moraines.
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| Runoff | Water that flows along the earth’s surface.
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| Infiltration | Water that enters the earth’s surface through the soil.
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| Percolation | The process of water flowing between soil particles.
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| Stream-bed | The bottom of the river.
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| Friction | The force that opposes the motion of one surface as it moves across another.
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| Abrasion | The wearing a way of rock due to grinding action.
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| Turbulence | Water that flows in every different direction.
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| Slope | The angle of incline that the water flows down due to gravity.
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| Load | The amount of sediment in a river.
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| Stalagmite | An icicle shaped formation that forms on the floor of a cave.
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| Stalactite | An icicle shaped formation that forms on the roof of a cave.
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| Delta | A sediment deposit formed from silt at the river’s mouth.
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| Alluvial fan | A wide sloping deposit of sediment where a stream leaves a mountain range.
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| Oxbow Lake | A lake formed when a meander gets cutoff.
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| V-shaped Valley | A valley cut by water flowing through the base.
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| Waterfall | The area of a stream or river where it’s slope is vertical.
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| Meanders | The snakelike bends formed in a river from banks being eroded.
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| Stream | A channel along which water flows down a slope they rarely dry up.
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| Rills | Tiny grooves cut in the soil.
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| Floodplain | The area of the river valley the river will cover during a flood.
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