EARTH-SPACE SCIENCE Second Semester Exam Words to Study

WATER CYCLE

Groundwater

Runoff

Tributary

Transpiration

Evaporation

Infiltration

Condensation

Condensation nuclei

Coalescence

Precipitation

WEATHERING and GROUNDWATER

Chemical weathering

Acid Rain

Mechanical weathering

Frost Wedging

Exfoliation

Erosion

By gravity

By running water

By glaciers

By wind

By organisms

Karst topography—

sinkholes

limestone caverns

stalagmites

stalactites

column

Groundwater

Zone of aeration

Water table

Zone of saturation

Aquifer

WEATHER AND ATMOSPHERE

Layers of earth’s atmosphere:

Troposphere

Stratosphere

Mesophere

Thermosphere

Exosphere

Types of heat transfer:

Radiation

Conduction

Convection

Temperature scales

Kelvin

Celsius

Fahrenheit

Temperature Inversion

LCL (lifted condensation level)

Humidity

Relative humidity

Orographic lifting

Cloud shapes:

Cirrus

Cumulus

Stratus

Nimbus

Cloud Altitude:

Auto-

Cirro-

Strato-

Weather

Meterology

Climate

Coriolis Effect

Air masses: (abbreviations: cP, mP, cT, mT, A)

Maritime

Continental

Tropical

Polar

Arctic

Weather Fronts (symbol as well as what it means to the weather)

Cold

Warm

Occluded

Stationary

Instruments of weather:

Barometer

Ceilometer

Thermometer

Anenometer

Hygrometer

Radiosonde

Satellite

Doppler radar

PLATE TECTONICS

Pangaea

Continental Drift theory and evidences

Plate Tectonics

SONAR—Sound Navigation Ranging

Plate boundaries

Convergent –three types: ocean to ocean, ocean to continental, continental to continental

Divergent--two types: ocean from ocean and continental from continental

Transform

Subduction zone

Seafloor spreading

Ridges

Trenches

Earthquakes

Volcanoes

Folded mountains

Rift

Island Arcs

ASTRONOMY UNIT

Moon

Albedo

Maria

Ejecta

Highlands

Craters

Regolith

Ecliptic

Seasons

Summer Solstice

Winter Solstice

Autumnal equinox

Vernal equinox

Moon Phases

New Moon

Waxing

Full Moon

Waning

Gibbous

Eclipse

Solar

Lunar

Solar System

Terrestrial planets

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Asteroid belt-- between Mars and Jupiter

Gas Giant Planets

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Tides

Heliocentric view of the Solar System

Geocentric view of the Solar System

Copernicus

AU (astronomical unit)

Heavenly bodies:

Asteroids

Comets

Meteoroids

Orbit or R evolution

Rotation