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KLS Final Review ALL
Question | Answer |
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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 |