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2nd Semester Final
Earth Science & Astronomy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Globular Clusters | A spherical collection of stars that orbits a galactic core as a satellite. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, which gives them their spherical shapes and relatively high stellar densities toward their centers. |
| White Drawf | Is very dense: its mass is comparable to that of the Sun, while its volume is comparable to that of Earth. |
| Blue Main Sequence Star | A main-sequence (hydrogen-burning) star of spectral type B and luminosity class V. These stars have from 2 to 16 times the mass of the Sun and surface temperatures between 10,000 and 30,000 K; as the highest surface temperature |
| Nuclear Fusion | A nuclear reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei come very close and then collide at a very high speed and join to form a new nucleus. This process is how the sun produces most of its energy. |
| Continental Drift | The hypothesis that the continents move slowly over the Earth's surface and were once joined into one continent. |
| Decay of Radioactive Isotopes | The heat that drives mantle convection. |
| Transform Boundary | When plates slide past each other and crust is neither created nor destroyed. |
| Galaxy | A cluster of billions of stars; vary widely in size and shape; typically much larger in size than star clusters. |
| Barred Spiral | A spiral galaxy with a central bar-shaped structure composed of stars. Bars are found in approximately two-thirds of all spiral galaxies. The Milky Way is an example of it. |
| Irregular Galaxy | A galaxy that does not have a distinct regular shape. |
| Hubble's Law | States that the speed at which a galaxy is moving away is proportional to its distance from us. |
| Proxima Centauri | Is 4.3 light-years from Earth. |
| Crest | The point on the medium that exhibits the maximum amount of positive or upward displacement from the rest position. |
| Trough | The point on the medium that exhibits the maximum amount of negative or downward displacement from the rest position. |
| Wavelength | is simply the length of one complete wave cycle. |
| Amplitude | Maximum amount of displacement of a particle on the medium from its rest position. |
| Divergent Boundaries | Where two plates separate |
| Convergent Boundaries | Where two plates collide forcing the edges of the two plates upward. |
| Subduction Zones (Convergent Boundaries) | Oceanic Crust (more dense crust) is being sent beneath the less dense continental crust. |
| Radiation | The emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or through a material medium. |
| Conduction | The transfer of heat (internal energy) by microscopic collisions of particles and movement of electrons within a body. |
| Red Shift | Happens when light or other electromagnetic radiation from an object is increased in wavelength, or shifted to the red end of the spectrum. |
| Star Clusters | Groups of stars that formed together at about the same time; Open Clusters and associations have relatively few stars that are well spread out; Globular clusters are much larger and denser, and may contain more than a million stars. |
| P-Wave | Or compressional wave, is a seismic body wave that shakes the ground back and forth in the same direction and the opposite direction as the direction the wave is moving. |
| Nuclear fission | A nuclear reaction or a radioactive decay process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts. |
| Supergiant Star | Among the most massive and most luminous stars. They occupy the top region of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram with bolometric absolute magnitudes between −5 and −7 with temperatures spanning from about 3,500K to over 20,000K. |
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