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jacobs 1-3

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Chemical weathering   the decomposition of earth materials because of chemical reactions that include oxidation, hydration, and carbonation  
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Aquifer   underground porous and premeable rock that is capible of holding groundwater. Especially rock that supplies economically significant quanties to wells, ect.  
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Seismic Waves   Vibrations within the earth, set off by earthquakes  
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Sinkholes   A deep suface depression formed when ground collapses into a subterranian covern.  
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Richter Scale   a logirithmic scale used to express the magnitude of an earthquake.  
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Tsunami   sea waves generated when an earthquake, eruption, or underwater landslide abruptly moves the seabed, julting the waves above.  
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Fold   a bend or wrinkle in rock resulting from compression and formed when the rock was in a plastic state.  
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Faults   Breaks or fractures in rocks produced by stress or movements in lithosperic plates  
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Conic Projections   used to portray hemispheres. a map projection based on projection of grid system onto a cone as the presumed developable surface.  
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Conformal Projections   A map projection on which the shapes of small areas are accurately portrayed.  
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Scale   amount of reduction on a map.  
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large scale map   lots of detail, shows a small area.  
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Small scale map   lose detail, ex. a world map  
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Weather   what is happening outside. -precipitation, temperature, wind, ect.  
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Climate   weather over time. the averages, extremes, patterns, temperature, and percipitation in an area.  
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Troposphere   Where most of the weather occurs.  
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Summer Solstice   June 21, north is pointed toward the sun.  
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Aphelion   July 4th, the eath is furthest from the sun. 94.3mm  
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Perihelion   Janurary 4th, earth is closest to the sun!!!!  
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Igneous Rocks   formed by the cooling and solidification of molten rocks.  
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Intrusive Rocks   formed below the ground- magma, quartz, granite  
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Extrusive Rocks   formed above the ground- lava, fledspar, basalt  
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Sedimentary Rocks   are composed of particles of gravel, sand, silt, and clay that were eroded from already exsisting rocks. ex. limestone, shale, sandstone, conglomerate  
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Metamorphic rock   are formed by ignious and sedimentary rocks by earth forces that generate heat, pressure, or chemical reactionsshale-slategranite-marble  
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Air Masses   large bodies of air with similar temps, and humidity characteristics.  
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Soil   A layer of fine material containing organic matter (dead plants/animals), inorganic matter (weathered rock materials), air, and H2O that rests on the bedrock underlying it.  
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Ogallala Aquifer   Supplies 1/4 of all groud water in the country. used for irrigation.  
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Hurricanes   an intense tropical cyclone, begins in a low pressure zone over warm water usually in the Northern hemispher. Has a calm eye. winds exceding 75mph.  
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tornado   the most violent of all storms. also the smallest storm. tornadoes are created by huge cululonimbus that sometimes travel in advance of a cold front. winds 300 mph.  
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Continental Drift   The theory that all land masses were once connected and then they drifted away from each other because of plate techtonics.  
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Alfred Wegner   1912, proposed the theory of continential drift  
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Distortion in Maps   SADD, Shape, area, distance, direction. you can portray either shape or area accurately but not both.  
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Equal area/ equivlant Maps   maps that are equal in area.  
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Absolute Location   exact location, latitude and longitude  
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Realitive Location   the position of a place in relation to other places or things. not exact.  
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Absolute Distance   exact measurements -miles, kilometers  
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Relitive Distance   takes about an hour to get there, its around the corner. the mall is 5min away.  
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Earth age   4.7 billion yrs.  
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Minerals   A mineral is a naturally occuring substance formed through processes that has a chemical compositions.  
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Reflections   Solar radiation is sent back to outerspace or diffused in the troposphere. Clouds and snow help to to reflect radiation.  
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Reradiation   the process where the earth absorbs the energy and the energy and then returns it back to the atmosphere in the form of terristrial radiation.  
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percipitaton   water particles-rain, sleet, snow, or hail- that falls from the atmosphere that reach the earths surface.  
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Earth Crust   thin cover of rock that lies on top of the lithosphere.  
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Lithosphere   a thin but strong solid shell of rocks, the outermost layer of the earth composed of crust and the upper mantal.  
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Land breeze   air flow from the lane toward the sea resulting from a night time pressure gradient that moves winds from the cooler land to the warm sea  
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Sea Breeze   air flow from the sea toward land resulting from a day time pressure gradient that moves winds from the cool sea to the warm land  
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Formal Region   a reginon that is distinguished by simalar characteristics1  
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Vernacular Regions   rigions people believe to exist ex midwest  
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Lattude   lines running east and west but measured north and south, from the equator to the poles  
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The Grid System   lattuitde and longuitude based on 3 points noth and south poles and the equator imagirnay lines  
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longuitude   lines running north and south but measured east and west, from 0 degrees (prime meridian, greenwich, england) to 180  
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Functional Region   a region deffinend by what occurs within it may have fuzzy bourndies  
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Cultural Landscapes   The visible imprint of human activity, its a responce to people ,ex copper hill and EPA  
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Orographic Percipitiation   occurs when warm air is forced to rise because of hills or mountouns percipitation on one side and dry on the other  
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Conventional Percipitation   results from rising, heated, moisrure laden air as it rises it cools producing rain  
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Oxbow lake   cressent shaped lake contained in an abbonded meander of a river  
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Aesthenosphere   partially nolten layer theat supports the lithosphere  
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orthophont map   a multi colored distortions free aril photo graph  
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Loess   a diposit of wind blown silt  
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