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Page 2 ES Vocabulary
Page 2 Vocabulary Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tide | rise and fall of water levels due to gravity between the Moon and the Sun |
| mid-ocean ridge | new crust is made here, a divergent zone. |
| trench | Place where old crust is destroyed. a convergent zone. deepest part of the ocean |
| subduction | a more dense plate going under a less dense plate |
| triangulation | method of at least 3 seismic stations determing the location (epicenter)of an earthquake |
| Apollo 11 | Firs manned spaceship to land on the Moon |
| Neil Armstrong | First human to walk on the moon |
| New Moon | Phase where tides are the highest. Moon and the Sun are on the same side of the Earth |
| Full Moon | Moon phase where the Sun and the moon are on opposite sides of the Earth |
| Quarter Moon | We see half of the moon's surface. |
| waning | we see less and less of the moon's surface. Moving from Full to new moon |
| waxing | we see more and more of the moon's surface. Moving from New to Full moon |
| Spring tide | Highest of the high tides. occurs during new moon |
| neap tide | lowest of the high tides; occurs durring quarter moon phases |
| Mercury | Terrestrail planet with no moon, very thin atmosphere, many craters and closest to the Sun |
| Venus | Once called Earth's twin. Hottest planet due to Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse effect |
| Earth | Only planet where water exists naturally in all 3 states of matter |
| Mars | Largest known volcanoe "Olympic Mons" Actively searching for signs of past life and past running water |
| Asteroid belt | Rocky or mettalic objects orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Contains the dwarf planet Ceres |
| Jupiter | Largest planet in our solar system. Great red Spot |
| Saturn | Jovian planet with many visible rings. Has a density that allows it to float on water |
| Uranus | Jovian planet tilted 90 degrees on its axis that one hemisphere is constantly in daylight and the other always night |
| Pluto | Dwarf planet with a highly elliptical orbit that some times brings it closer to the Sun than Neptune |
| Summer | Northern Hemisphere tilted toward the Sun, while the southern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun |
| rotation | one complete turn on an axis. Basis for the day |
| revolution | one complete journey around the sun. basis for the year |
| comet | diry snowballs that orbit the sun. Am impact of one of these is thought to have caused the dinosaurs to go extinct. |
| comet tail | The part of the comet that always points away from the sun due to the solar wind |
| nebula | cloud of gas and dust in space |
| protostar | nebula that contracts ad begins to heat up and glow |
| main sequence | hydrogen fusion begins. Our Suns present life stage |
| red giant | helium fusion occurs. Sun expands out to earth's orbit, |
| white dwarf | carbon fusion occurs |
| black dwarf | our sun after fusion process is finished |
| black hole | death stage of an extremely massive star. Our Sun wont' do this stage |
| Solar Nebula Theory | Solstem formation theory in which our Sun and al lthe planets formed from a large rotating cloud of gas and dust. |
| Jovian Planet | large low density gas giant planets like Jupiter with many moons and rings. |
| meteor | piece of rock or metal from space in our atmosphere. often called shooting stars |
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