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| stalagtite | an iciclelike mass of dripstone that forms on the ceiling of a cave
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| living fossils | animals such as the coelecanth that disappear abruptly from thfossil record, yet are still alive today
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| puncutallted equilibrium hypothesis | the evolutionary hypothesis which states that new kinds of organisms arise in just a few generations as a result of massive genetic rescramings
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| erosion | general term for the carrying away of rock fragments such as by wind or running water
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| weathering | general term for the process by which rocks are broken down by the forces of nature
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| mass waisting | general term for movements of rock and soil caused by gravity
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| paleontology | the study of fossils
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| sea stack | pillar like structure of rock formed when the middle of a sea arch collapses
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| geological colomn | a hypothetical evolutionary time scale that pposedly charts both the earth's history and the sequence of rock layers in the earth's crust
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| abrasian | the sandblasing action of windblown sand
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| chymical, physical | the two types of weathering
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| drainage basin | a region of land drained by a stream or river system
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| meander | winding, looping curve in a river on a flat flood plain
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| fossil | the preserved remains of plants, animals or humans in sedimentary rock
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| ice age | the perid of history during which much of the earth's high latitudes were apparently covered with glaciers
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| delta | a fan shpaed deposit of sediments at the mouth of a river
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| stalagmite | a spirelike mass of drpistone that forms on the floor of a cave
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| exfoliation | type of weathering often associated with granite, that involeves the breaking or peeling away of rock in layers
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| drumlin | low hill formed when advancing glacier overuns an old moraine
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| no transitional forms | what is the most important evidence agains evolution?
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| special creation | the belief that God called the universe andall that is in it into existence out of nothing
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| evolution | the belief that the universe and all that is in it originated by natural processes over bllions of years
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| uniformitarianism | false beliefthat all geological processes have always proceeded at the same rate
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| principle of uniformity | states tht the same scientific laws in operation today have existed throughout the earth's history
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| australopitecines | the fossil known as "lucy" is an exampl of this group of extinct apes
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| natural selection | the idea that the fittest and strongest of heach species ae mre likely to survie and reproduce that weakr or unfit members of the species
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| Charles Darwin | the British naturalist who popularized evolution with the book on The Origin of Species
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| mass | the quantity of matter an object contains
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| 3rd law of motion | states that for every action there is an equal and oppote reaction
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| 9.8 m/s | acceleration of gravity at the earth's surface
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| velocity | the speed of an object in a particular direction
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| Sir Issa Newtion | formulated the laws of motion and gravitation
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| strong nuclear, weak nuclear, gravitational, electromagnetic | the four fundamental forces of nature
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| inertia | the tendency of matter to reist changes in motion
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| more slowly | according the the second law of motion, a given force would cause a heavier object to accelerate________than a lighter object
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| at the same rate | Galileo discovered that without air resistance, heavier objects fall_________as lighter objects when dropped
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| vector | an arrow that represents the magnitude and direction of a physical quantity of a diagram
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| mechanics | the branch of physics that deals with objects in motion
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| speed | the distance coered by an object in a certain period of time, rate of motion
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| acceleration | any change in speed, direction, or both
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| interferance | the mutual reinforcement or cancellation that occurs when wo or more waves meet
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| decibel | the unit usually used to measure sound intensity in the way that reflects how our ears perceive sound
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| defraction | spreading out of a wav after it passs through a narrow opening
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| pitch | the ffect offrequency on the way our ear perceives sound
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| constructive | when two crests or two troughs of interfering waves coincide they strengthen each other
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| refraction | the being of the path of a wave as a result of a change in wave speed, such as when crossing a boundary between medium
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| ultrasonic | sound with a frequency above the ranceof human hearing
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| frequency | the number of complete waves that pass a given point in a second
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| supersoic | speeds faster than the speed of sound
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| hertz | he SI unit of frequency equal to 1 wave or cycle per second
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| amplitude | the maximum distance that paricles are displaced by a wave
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| law of reflection | the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection
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| longitudinal wave | a series of compression and rarefaction pulses traveling along a spring
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| constructive, destructive | the two kinds of wave interferences
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| wavelength | the distance from one wave crest or trough to the next
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| overtones | sounds produced by a musical instrument at highter frequencies than the funamental
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| doppler effect | a change in sound frequency caused by an object's motion
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| infrasonic | sound with a frequency below the rance of human hearing
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| medium | the substance through which a wave transfers energy
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| wave | a periodic back and forth motion that transmits energy through a substance
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| destructive interference | the wave interference that occurs when the crest of o wave and a trough of another pass through each other, canceling each other out
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| reflection | the change in the course of a wave as a result of a collision with an object
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| transverse waves | a series of side to side wavestraveling along a rope
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| inverse square law sound intensity | a sound at a distance of 1 meter is 100 times more intence than the same sound at a distance of 10 meters
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| crest | the highest point of a wave
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| 75 m/s | what is the speed of water wave with a wavelength of 25 feet and frequency of 3 hz? ( speed= wavelength x frequency)
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