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5 Sci Ch 7 Test 7

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Definition
78%   percent of nitrogen in the earth's air  
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93,000,000 miles   How far away is the sun?  
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air pressure   the pressure of atmospheric or compressed air; the total weight of air on some particular place on earth  
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airglow   a light visible on the horizon on especially dark and clear nights; cast by ions created when solar rays strip electrons from electrons from atoms of gases in the upper atmosphere  
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atmosphere   the layer of gases surrounding a planet or moon;  
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aurora   light display seen near the poles caused by the collisions of particles from the solar wind with molecules of air  
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aurora borealis   the northern lights  
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chromosphere   the sun's atmosphere that has a colorful layer of gases that surrounds the sun's photosphere; visible only through a monochromator  
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core   innermost section of the sun  
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corona   a vapor blanket that surrounds the chromospheres and extends to about 249,000miles from the surface of the sun; visible only during a total solar eclipse  
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crescent   the first phase after a new moon  
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Earth   only planet suitable for life.  
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exosphere   topmost layer of the earth's atmosphere  
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gibbous   bulging  
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ion   an atom that is either positively charged because it has lost some or all of it electrons, or negatively charged because it has picked up one or more extra electrons  
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Jupiter   largest planet with the big red spot  
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lunar eclipse   the obscuring of the moon that occurs when the earth comes between it and the sun; the moon is temporarily darkened as it passes through the earth's shadow  
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magnetic   earth is surrounded by this field that protects it from harmful space particles  
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Mars   the red planet.  
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Mercury   planet closest to the sun  
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mesosphere   meteoroids burn up in this layer  
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meteoroids   small solid pieces of rocky debris traveling through space; many meteoroids are fragments broken off asteroids  
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Neptune   royal blue planet where the wind blows hardest. It has a moon named Triton.  
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nitrogen   78% of the air is made of this gas  
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ozone   a form of oxygen with three atoms of oxygen in its molecule instead of the two atoms found in in molecules of normal oxygen gas  
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ozone layaer   layer in the stratosphere that helps protect the earth from ultraviolet rays  
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photosphere   sphere of light; the surface layer of the sun; the layer visible to the observer on Earthni  
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rareified   scarce; thin and less dense  
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Saturn   planet with 7 rings and over 60 moons  
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solar eclipse   the blocking out of the sun's light that occurs when the moon comes between the sun and the earth  
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solar wind   a steady stream of subatomic particles speeding outward from the sun and through space at a million miles per hour  
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sun   where the light of the moon comes from  
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sunspots   darker areas on the outer surface of the sun  
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troposphere   Layer of Earths's atmosphere closest to the Earth where weather occurs  
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Uranus   the first planet discovered in modern times. It was discovered by Sir Wm Herschel. It rotates on it's side.  
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Venus   Earth's twin and brightest planet in the sky  
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Where do sunspots occur?   on the photosphere  
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