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KLS Final Review ALL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Light Year | Distance light travels in a year |
| Parallax | Apparent movement of a star when seen from different positions |
| Revolution | Movement of the earth around the sun; takes 365 days or one year |
| Lithosphere | Layer that contains plates and is located in the crust and upper mantle |
| Craters | Round holes caused by asteroid impacts |
| Geocentric | Earth centered universe or solar system |
| Heliocentric | Sun centered solar system |
| Mass Movement | the down hill movement of earth materials caused by gravity |
| Force of Gravity Factors | Mass and distance |
| Smallest Terrestrial Planet | Mercury |
| Largest Terrestrial Planet | Earth |
| Sun's Core | Center of sun where nuclear fusion takes place |
| solar wind | stream of electrically charged particles that extend out from sun's corona |
| Quantitative | Observation that uses numbers |
| Qualitative | Observation that does not use numbers |
| Formula for Density | D = m/v (density = mass/volume |
| Hydrosphere | earth system that contains all of the earth's water |
| Evaporation | Process where liquid water is turned into a gas (water vapor) and goes into the atmosphere |
| Relief | difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area |
| Landslides, mudflows, slumps, creep, avalanches, rock slides | examples of mass movement |
| Deposition | Process by which sediment settles out of water or wind carrying it |
| Main use of satellites | observing earth's surface |
| Fossil | Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock |
| Stages of Rocket | Act as an engine for rocket and separates after it burn's all their fuel and falls to earth |
| Examples of Physical Science | electricity, magnetism, flight |
| Balance | used to measure mass |
| Graduated Cylinder | used to measure volume |
| Scale | used to measure weight |
| Estimate | approximation used when cannot obtain exact numbers |
| Precipitation | any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches the earth's surface |
| 1st Law of Planetary Motion | Discovered by Kepler, says that planets orbit the sun in an ellipse |
| Inner planets with water | earth, mars |
| Law of Superposition | The lower the layer of of earth rocks and dirt, the older the layer |
| Space Station | large, artificial satellite on which people can live and work |
| Remote Sensing | Making observations from a distance without coming into direct contact |
| Phases of Moon | Different parts or shapes of the moon seen from earth caused because the moon is being looked at from different positions |
| Indication of Planet by Distant Star | star has a very slight back and forth motion |
| Pressure inside earth | increases as you go down |
| Common Characteristics of Outer Planets | Large in size, many moons, rings, far apart, made of gas like hydrogen and helium |
| leeward | Side of mountain facing away from wind, has a very dry climate, little to no plant growth |
| windward | Side of mountain facing toward the wind, has a wet climate with a lot of rainfall, a lot of plant growth |
| Coastal Plain | Plain that lies along coast by ocean, usually has a low elevation |
| Interior Plain | Plain that lies away from oceans or coast, usually higher in elevation compared to a coastal plain |
| Cool Air verses Warm Air | Cool air is more dense and flows under warm air |
| Examples of Earth and Space Science | study of earthquakes, study of volcanoes, study of stars |
| Scientific Law | what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions |
| Granite to Sandstone Process | Depostion - granite paticles settle on ocean floor and are compacted to form sandstone |
| Refracting Telescope | telescope that uses convex lenses to gather and focus light |
| Wegener's Theory of Continental Drift | The continents were once joined together in a large land mass called Pangaea and then broke apart and have been drifting apart ever since |
| models of atoms | used because atoms are too small to see |
| independent variable | the variable that you purposely change during an experiment |
| dependent variable | the variable in an experiement that is changed as a result of the independent variable |
| Local Winds | occur in a small area because of unequal heating in a small area |
| global winds | occur because of unequal heating between the poles and the equator and occur over large areas |
| less mass in air volume | less dense the air |
| more mass in air volume | more dense the air |
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