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Earth science sol review
30 cards·by 2024aswalton
Where does the earth revolve round
Around sun tilted on its axis
What is hemisphere
Earths revolution around the sun
The day of the year as units of time are based upon
The earth
what is a solar eclipse
When the moon blocks sunlight from the earth
What is lunar eclipse
Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon
Where does the suns energy come from
Hydrogen and helium
What are inner plants
Contain mostly rock
Outer planets?
Gas planets
What does a comet do
Orbit the sun and contains mostly frozen gases
What is the position of the earth in the solar system
Sun-earth-moon seasons tides and eclipses
The solid rock material that directly underlines the sediments on the ocean floor
lithosphere
Which factor has the least effect on the weathering of a rock
The number of fossils found in the rock
What is the source of most of the water vapor the enters the atmosphere
oceans
A river transports material by suspension rolling
solution
Which process most directly results in cloud formation
condensation
oxygen is the most abundant element by volume in the earths
hydrosphere
Which layer of the atmosphere has the greatest density
Troposphere
What is after summer during the seasons
Fall
How do you know which one is getting the most sun
By arrows coming from the line down the middle
After the first quarter what is next
Waxing gibbous
What can easily be scratched by
Talc
What is the hardest to scratch
Diamond
What is a streak
Color of a mineral in a powder form
What is cleavage
Breaks in there sheets straight line
What is a fracture
Rough jagged pieces off of a rock
What does it mean to transform
Past each other (earthquakes)
What does it mean to convergent
Plates are coming to each other plates are being destroyed
What is chemical weathering
Breakdown of a rock through a change in mineral or chemical composition
What is Physical weathering
Is the breakdown of rock into smaller pieces without chemical change
what is deposition
Where eroded materials eventually end