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Unit 4 – Earth and Space Science

Key Term Definition Link


Water
cycle/hydrolog
ic cycle. Say
what it is and https://www.britannica.com/science/
give a simple The course includes the continuous circulation of water in the water-cycle
1 diagram. Earth's system and atmosphere.
https://www.yourdictionary.com/trans
Transpiration (of a plant or leaf) the exhalation of water vapor through the piration
2 stomata.
Precipitation is rain, snow, sleet, or hail — any kind of weather https://www.vocabulary.com/dictiona
precipitation
3 condition where something's falling from the sky. ry/precipitation
Surface runoff is water, from rain, snowmelt, or other sources, that
Surface run
flows over the land surface, and is a major component of the water https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/s
off
4 cycle. urface_runoff.htm
https://study.com/academy/lesson/wh
Condensation Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air is at-is-condensation-definition-
5 changed into liquid water. examples-quiz.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/e
precipitation ncyclopedia/precipitation/
6 Precipitation has to do with things falling, not just from the sky.
To cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance (such https://www.merriam-
percolate
7 as a powdered drug) especially for extracting a soluble constituent webster.com/dictionary/percolate
Groundwater is the water found underground in the cracks and
spaces in soil, sand and rock. It is stored in and moves slowly
Ground water
through geologic formations of soil, sand and rocks called https://www.groundwater.org/get-
8 aquifers. informed/basics/groundwater.html
The periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets,
Tides produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ti
9 about every 12 hours. des
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/b
1 Biosphere It's the part of the earth's which are crust, waters, and atmosphere iosphere
0 that help control life.
1 https://www.merriam-
Geosphere
1 The solid earth —distinguished from atmosphere and hydrosphere webster.com/dictionary/geosphere
https://www.merriam-
1 Atmosphere webster.com/dictionary/atmosphere
2 The gaseous envelope of a celestial body (such as a planet)
1 https://www.merriam-
Lithosphere
3 The solid part of a celestial body (such as the earth) webster.com/dictionary/lithosphere
1 https://www.merriam-
hydrosphere
4 The aqueous vapor of the atmosphere webster.com/dictionary/hydrosphere
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/cr
1 It’s a places on earth that are so cold that water is frozen ( such as yosphere.html
5 Cryosphere north pole)
1 The region below the lithosphere, http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/book/e
6 Asthenosphere thick, in which the rock is less rigid xport/html/193
https://www.merriam-
1 webster.com/dictionary/rock
7 Rock It’s cause to sway back and forth.
1 The fact of soil, stone, etc. being gradually damaged and removed https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dicti
Erosion
8 by the waves, rain, or wind onary/english/erosion?q=Erosion
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dicti
1 Changes to the color or form of something over a period of time onary/english/weathering?q=Weatheri
9 Weathering because of the effects of sun, wind, or other weather conditions ng
Rocks formed by the cooling and solidifying of molten materials.
2 Igneous rock Igneous rocks can form beneath the Earth's surface, or at its https://www.dictionary.com/browse/i
0 surface, as lava. gneous-rock
Rock that has formed through the deposition and solidification of
Sedimentary sediment, especially sediment transported by water (rivers, lakes,
2 rock and oceans), ice (glaciers), and wind. Sedimentary rocks are often https://www.dictionary.com/browse/s
1 deposited in layers, and frequently contain fossils. edimentary-rock?s=t
Rock that was once one form of rock but has changed to another
Metamorphic
2 under the influence of heat, pressure, or some other agent without https://www.dictionary.com/browse/
rock
2 passing through a liquid phase. metamorphic-rock?s=t
https://www.merriam-
2 Mantle webster.com/dictionary/mantle
3 It's the middle of the crust in the earth.
2 the molten, fluid rock that issues from a volcano or volcanic vent. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/la
Lava
4 va?s=t
https://www.merriam-
2 Sedimentary Contains sediments and forms sedimentary rocks. webster.com/dictionary/sedimentary
5
Geology. a continuous process by which rocks are created,
2 Rock cycle changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed https://www.dictionary.com/browse/r
6 again. ock-cycle?s=t
A mineral is a substance such as tin, salt, or sulphur that is formed
naturally in rocks and in the earth. Minerals are also found in
Mineral
2 small quantities in food and drink. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dic
7 tionary/english/mineral
https://www.britannica.com/science/e
2 Earthquake There is a passage of seismic waves and the cause of that exists arthquake-geology
8 sudden trembling of the ground.
any remains, impression, or trace of https://www.merriam-
2 fossil a living thing of a former geologic webster.com/dictionary/fossil
9 age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc.
Molten material beneath or within https://www.dictionary.com/browse/
3 Magma the earths crust, from which igneous magma
0 rock is formed.
Earth’s core is the very hot, very dense center of our planet. The
3 Earth’s core ball-shaped core lies beneath the cool, brittle crust and the mostly- https://www.nationalgeographic.org/e
1 solid mantle. ncyclopedia/core/
The Earth's crust is the Earth's hard outer layer. It is less than 1%
3 Earth’s crust of Earth's volume. The crust is made up of different types of rocks: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eart
2 igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. h%27s_crust
3 the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve https://www.dictionary.com/browse/s
Solar system
3 around it. olar-system
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/as
Name the
k/193-What-is-the-order-of-the-
3 planets in the There are 8 planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, planets-in-the-Solar-System-
4 solar system Uranus, and Neptune.
List the
planets in the
solar system https://www.space.com/16080-solar-
3 starting from There are 8 planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, system-planets.html
5 the sun Uranus, and Neptune.
Phases of the https://sciencing.com/definition-
3 The moonlight from the sun, the stages of the moon are the result phases-moon-5087636.html
moon
6 by the angle from which an observer on earth.
1- New Moon
Draw a picture
2- Waxing Crescent
of all the
3- First Quarter
phases of the https://www.ducksters.com/science/p
4- Waxing Gibbous
moon and hases_of_the_moon.php
5- Full Moon
name each
6- Waning Gibbous
phase.
7- Third Quarter
3 8- Waning Crescent
7
Global warming is the slow increase in the average temperature of
the earth’s atmosphere because an increased amount of the energy
Global
(heat) striking the earth from the sun is being trapped in the https://www.britannica.com/science/g
warming
3 atmosphere and not radiated out into space. lobal-warming
8
The gradual thinning of Earth’s ozone layer in the upper https://www.britannica.com/science/o
3 Ozone Layer atmosphere. zone-depletion
9
4 Greenhouse A greenhouse gas is a gas that absorbs infrared radiation (IR) and https://whatis.techtarget.com/definitio
0 Gas radiates heat in all directions. n/greenhouse-gas

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