Science Voabulady #1
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| The part of Earth which is composed mostly of rock; the crust and outer mantle | Lithospheric
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| A type of rock that forms when melted rock cools and hardens | Igneous rock
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| A type of rock formed by gravity pressing fragments of other rocks and minerals together as they settle on land or under the ocean over a long preriod of time | Sedimentary rock
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| One of the major types of rock that is created from previously existing rock | Metamorphic rock
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| Hardened remains or imprint of a plant or animal | Fossil
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| The ordering of sedimentary layers of rock with the oldest on the bottom and the youngest on top | Law of superposition
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| A crack in a body of rock that the rock can move along | Fault
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| Fossils of widely distributed organisms that lived during only one short period | Index fossils
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| The age of a rock given as the number of yeArs since the rock formed | Absolute dating
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| The age of a rock compared to the ages of rock layers | Relative age
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| The process of determining the age of an object using the half life of one or more radioactive elements | Radioactive dating
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| Sample of ice usually removed from the polar ice caps which gives evidence of the atmosphere in the past | Ice cores
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| The theory that the earths lithosphere id divided into a number of large, plate like sections that move | Plate tectonic theory
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| Process by which species of organisms undergo changed over a long period of time through genetic variation and natural selection | Evolution
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| Fossils that have characteristics of organisms that existed both prior to and after it | Transitional fossil
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| A coastal body of water where fresh water from a river mixes wth salt water | Estuaries
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| The movement of cold water upward from the deep ocean that is caused by wind | Upwelling
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| Measures how acidic or basic a liquid is | pH
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| Is the cloudiness of a fluid caused by individual particles suspended in the fluid | Turbidity
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| Are species that can be used to monitor the health of an environment or ecosystem | Bio-indicators
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| All of the water on,under, and above the Earth | Hydrosphere
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| Saltiness of a body of water | Salinity
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| Living things | Biotic
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| All of the non living parts of an ecosystem | Abiotic
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| The continual movement of water between the land, ocean , and the air | Water cycle
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