Earth+Science

**__Earth Science I __**
 * Science Vocabulary **

|||| air density
 * absolute dating || age of the universe ||
 * altitude |||| air pressure || algae growth ||
 * area |||| apparent movement of the stars || aquifer ||
 * astronomical distance |||| asteroid movement pattern || asthenosphere ||
 * biogeochemical cycles |||| aurora || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Big Bang theory* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">biosphere |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">biological processes || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">biomass energy ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">buoyancy |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">boundary || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">boundary currents ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">carbon dioxide |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">buoyant force || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">carbon cycle* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">catastrophic geologic event |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">carbon dioxide reservoir || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">carbon-14 (C-14)* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">climatic zones |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">chemical processes || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">climate change models ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">comet impact |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">closed system || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">cloud formation* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">concentric layers |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">composition || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">compound ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">continental collision |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">contact metamorphism* || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">continental climate* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">continental rift |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">continental crust || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">continental plate ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">controlled experiment |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">control group || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">control of variables ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">convergence |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">convection || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">convection current ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">coral bleaching |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Copernican revolution || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Copernicus ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">cosmic microwave background* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">coral reef destruction || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Coriolis effect ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">crustal deformation |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">cosmological red shift* || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">crystal* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">crustal plate movement || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">crystal size* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">data analysis |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">crystallization || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">currents ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">daughter substance* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">data interpretation || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">data presentation ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">deep-sea trench |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">decay rate || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">deep water oceanic currents ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">disposal |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">dew point || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">displacement ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">downburst (wind shear) |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Doppler effect || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Doppler Red Shift* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Earth processes |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">drought || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">drylines ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Earth’s internal source of energy |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Earth system || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Earth’s external source of energy ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">elastic rebound theory* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">El Niño* || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ethanol |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">empirical evidence || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">environmental conditions ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">explosivity* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">evidence for the expansion of the universe || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">evidence of the Big Bang Theory ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">flood |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">extrusive* || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">fault ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">frontal wedging |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">fluorocarbons* || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">foliation* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">geologic dating |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ga (billion years ago) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">geochemical cycle ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">geologic record |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">geologic features || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">geologic force ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">geosphere |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">geological time scale || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">geomorphology* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">gradual geologic event |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">geothermal energy || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">global positioning system (GPS) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">grain* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">grain shape* || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">grain size* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">gravitational energy |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">grams/cubic centimeter || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">grams/mL ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">half-life |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">greenhouse effect || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">greenhouse gases ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">helium |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">heat reservoir || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">heat trapping mechanisms* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">human modification of ecosystems |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram* || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">history of the universe ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ice core data |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">hydroelectric energy || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">hydrogeology ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">infrared radiation |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">index fossil || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">infiltration ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">interaction |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">inputs || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">intensity ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">landscape |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">intrusive* || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">landmass ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">life cycle of stars |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">law || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">law of superposition ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">lithification* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">light year || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">limestone ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">lower mantle |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">logical argument || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">logical reasoning ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">maritime climate* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">magma || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">magmatic activity ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">metamorphism |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">measurement error || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">mechanical energy ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">method of investigation |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">meteorite impact || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">methane ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">molten rock |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">mid-ocean ridge || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">molten core ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">movement of matter and energy |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">mountain belt || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">mountain range ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">nitrogen |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">multiple trials || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">nebula ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">nonfoliated texture |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">nitrogen cycle* || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">nitrous oxide ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">nuclear (U-235) energy |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">nonrenewable energy || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">nova* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ocean topography |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">nuclear fusion || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ocean layers prevailing winds ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">oceanic plate |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">oceanic circulation || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">oceanic crust ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">outputs |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">origin of the universe || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">outer core ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">parent substance* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ozone depletion* || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">P-wave ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Permian extinction |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">peer review || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">permeability ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">plate collision |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">physical processes || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">plate boundary ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pleistocene ice age |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">plate tectonics context || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">plate tectonics theory ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">prevailing winds |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">polar ice caps || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">porosity ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">product production* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">primary wave || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">product life cycle* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">radioactive isotope* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">radioactive decay || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">radioactive element ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">recharge |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">radioactive substance || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">radiometric dating ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">relative humidity |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">regional climate || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">regional metamorphism* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">replicable experiment |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">relative–age dating || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">renewable energy ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">residence time |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">research || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">reservoir ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">rock sequence |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">rock breakage || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Richter scale ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">satellite weather image |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">S-wave || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">rock composition ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">sea floor spreading |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">seawater density || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">salinity ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">secondary wave |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">seismology || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">scientific method ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">solar flare |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">solar system formation || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">seawater density and salinity* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">space probes* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">speed of light || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">skepticism ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">star brightness |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">star composition || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">solar wind ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">star size |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">star evolution || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">spiral structure ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">star types |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">star system* ||||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">striations* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">stellar energy || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">star formation ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">sunspot |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">subduction zone || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">star temperature ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">surface oceanic currents |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">sunspot cycle || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">stratosphere* ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">thermohaline circulation |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">sustainability || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sun's radiation ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">transportation of matter |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">topography || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">superposition ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">uranium-lead (U-Pb)* |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">unconformity || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">thermal energy ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">water table |||| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">varve || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">transportation of energy ||
 * ||||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">unequal heating of air, land masses, and oceans ||
 * ||||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">water budget ||