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SSA - EARTH SCIENCE

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What is Igneous Rock? Any type of rock can be MELTED in the Earth’s crust. It needs HEAT.
What is Sedimentary Rock? Rock that forms from other ERODED rock.
What is Metamorphic Rock? When rock in the crust gets pushed under another tectonic plate, metamorphic rock can form. It needs HEAT and PRESSURE.
What is Radiation? Electromagnetic waves from the Sun travels through our atmosphere and hits the surface (land, water).
What is Convection? The transfer of energy through the movement of hot or cool fluids (air and water). Hot air rises and cool air sinks.
What is Conduction? The transfer of heat energy by two or more objects in contact with each other.
What is Sea Breeze? Sea Breeze: During the day, the land is hotter than the ocean. A breeze moves from the cool air over water (land pressure) to the warm air over land (low pressure).
What is Land Breeze? Land Breeze: At night, the ocean is warmer than the land. A breeze moves from the cool air over land (HIGH pressure) to the warm air over the ocean (LOW pressure).
What is Weathering? Wind, ice, gravity, and water BREAK ROCK apart, creating sediment.
What is Erosion? When the sediment is MOVED to another place by wind, ice, gravity, water.
What is Deposition? When the sediment carried by wind, ice, gravity, water is deposited (LAID DOWN) in another location.
What is the Law of Superposition? In horizontal layers of sedimentary rock, each layer is older than the layer above it and younger than the layer below it.
What is the Tectonic Plates Theory? It explains how Earth's subterranean movements create major landforms.
What type of tectonic plates form volcanoes? Convergent Plates
What type of tectonic plates cause Earthquakes? Convergent and Transform Plates.
What are Convergent Tectonic plates? Where two plates are moving towards each other and colliding.
What are Divergent Tectonic Plates? Where tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
What are Transform Plates? Where two plates move (and rub) against each other in opposite directions.
What is Weather? Can change between a few minutes or hours.
What is Climate? Takes very long time to change. Is measure as averages. Ex. The average amount of rain. The average temperature, etc.
What is found in the Biosphere? All living things on earth.
What is found in the Cryosphere? All of the frozen ice on earth.
What is found in the Atmosphere? Layers of gas that surround the earth’s surface.
What is found in the Hydrosphere? All of the liquid water on earth
What is found in the Geosphere? The soil, rock, and land at the surface of the Earth.
What are the layers of Earth? Crust: where living things are. Mantle: below the crust. It moves very slow. Outer Core: Hot, liquid. Its motion generates Earth's magnetic field. Inner Core: Hot, solid, very dense center of the planet.
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