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Comprehensive Exam 1

Comprehensive Exam Rreview 1

TermDefinition
Valley Glacier a glacier confined to a mountain by which bedrock are lifted.
Ice Sheet a very large, thick mass of glacial ice flowing outward in all directions from one or more. accumulation enters.
Evaporation the process of converting a liquid to a gas.
Sublimation the conversion of a solid directly to a gas without passing through the liquid state.
Basal Slip when meltwater acts as a lubricant to help the glaciers side along its path.
Plastic Flow deformation of a material that remains rigid under stress.
Crevasse a deep crack in the brittle surface of a glacier.
Fault a break in the lithosphere along which movement has occurred.
Mercury Barometer a mercury filled glass tube in which the height of the mercury column is a measure of air pressure.
Aneroid Barometer an instrument for measuring air pressure that consists of evacuated metals chambers very sensitive.
Cyclone a low-pressure center characterized by a counter-clockwise flow of air in the Northern Hemisphere.
Anticyclone a high pressure center characterized by a clockwise flow of air in the Northern Hemisphere.
Slump the downward slipping of a mass of rock or unconsolidated material moving as a unit along a curved surface.
Creep the slow downhill movement of soil and regolith.
Storm Surge the abnormal rise of the sea along a shore as a result of strong winds.
Tropical Storm a tropical cyclone with maximum winds between 61 and 69 km/hr.
Intrusive Igneous Rock are formed from magma cooling below the Earths ,they will be coarse-grained,they take longer to cool, so their crystals will be larger.
Extrusive Igneous Rock are formed by lava above the surface of the earth, they will be fine-grained, as their crystals cool quickly above ground
Suspension a mixture if small particles dispersed in a liquid.
Solution a liquid mixture in which the minor component is distribute
Pedalfer composed of aluminum and iron oxides. Subdivision of the zonal soil order comprising of a large group of soils.
Pedocal Subdivision of the zonal soil order.Low soil organic matter.
Focus Point at which first movement occurs during an earthquake.
Epicenter The point an Earth's surface directly above the focus.
Abrasion the grinding and scraping of a rock surface by the friction and impact of rock particle.
Plucking process by which bedrock are lifted out of place by glaciers.
Atomic Number the number of protons in the neucleus of an atom.
Mass Number the number of neutrons and protons in the nucleus of an atom.
El Nino name given to the periodic warming of the ocean that occyrs in the central and eastern Pacific.
Monsoon seasonal reversal of wind direction.
Anemometer an instrument used to determine wind speed.
Barometer an instrument that measures atmosphere pressure.
Cirrus thin, delicate, ice-crystal clouds often appearing as veil-like patches or thin.
Nimbostratus are dark,low level clouds often accompanied as light to moderately falling precipitation.
Horn a pyramid-like peak formed by glacial action i three or more cirques surrounding a mountain summit.
Cirque an amphitheater-shaped basin at the head of a glacialiated valley produced by frost wedging and plucking.
Moraine gradually formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris.
Drumlin a streamlined asymmetrical hill composed of glacial till.
Transported soils soils that form on unconsolidated deposits.
Residual Soil soil developed directly from the weathering of bedrock below.
Contact Metamorphism changes in rock caused by the heat from a nearby magama body.
Regional Metamorphism associated with large-scale mountain builiding processes.
Conduction the transfer of heat through matter by molecular actiivity.
Convection the transfer of heat by the movement of a mass or substance, only in fluids.
Felsic the group of igneous rocks composed primarily of feldpsar and quartz.
Mafic Igneous rock with low silica content and high iron-magnesium content.
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