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ELS Flashcards

1
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Heat transfer is project by the sun says going into the Earth

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Radiation

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2
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Movement of a mass, rock, debris,or earth down a slope

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Landslide

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3
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3Rs

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Reduce,reuse, recycle

•Reducing is cutting back on the amount of trash we make
•Reusing is finding a new way to use.
•Recycling is using trash to remake news goods

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4
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3Rs

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Reduce,reuse, recycle

•Reducing is cutting back on the amount of trash we make
•Reusing is finding a new way to use.
•Recycling is using trash to remake news goods

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5
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Example of necessary for earth processes.

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Ironing of clothing,ice melting in the hand.

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6
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These Rock tend to go upward (shallower level)

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Decompression melting

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7
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Formation and movement of magma under the easrtgs crust.

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•the Rock tend to go upward and pressure reduce
•deffirent minerals in rock melt
•heat Is transferred

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8
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Process under the Earth crust/movement of the magma occur

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Magmatism

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9
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The magma present in the lower crust

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Partial melting

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10
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The change that take place within a body rock

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METAMORPHISM

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11
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Determine earth weather and climate

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METEOROLOGY

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12
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Lithosphere make up the solid portion of the earth

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GEOSPHERE

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13
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Includes water that is on the surface of the planet

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Hydrosphere

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14
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The global ecological systems interacting with each other

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Biosphere

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15
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A thin layer of solid rock that make up the outermost part of the earth

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crust

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16
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It where asthenosphere located

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mantle

17
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The study of the universe and the heavenly bodies

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Astronomy

18
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The more the silica is has the lighter the color is

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Amount silica affect the color igneous rock

19
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Eroded igneous or metamorphic rock

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Nonconformity

20
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Eroded horizontal sedimentary layer

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Disconformity

21
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Sedimentary rock formed with invisible gap in time between them due to erosion of order unit or non deposition

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Paraconformities

22
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It is used to arrange geological events

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Relative dating

23
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Refers to use of animal bone to determine the age

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Faunal dating

24
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It is any dating technique that tells us how old a rock epicomen is in years

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Absolute dating

25
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A dangerous phenomenon substance human activity or condition that may cause loss of life

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Hazard

26
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It is participatable shaking of the surface of the

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Earthquake

27
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The primary cause of earthquake damage to man-made structure

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Ground shaking or ground motion

28
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The primary cause of earthquake damage to man-made structure

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Ground shaking or ground motion

29
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Surface rupture is an offset of ground surface wind fault rupture extended the earth’s

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Ground or surface rupture

30
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Soil liquefaction is a phenomenon in which the straight and stiffness of a soil

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Liquefaction

31
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This may be due to downward vertical displacement

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Subsidence

32
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Is also known as seismic sea wave is a series of wave in water body

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Tsunami

33
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When lava and gas are released from a volcano sometimes explosively

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Volcanic eruption

34
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Volcanic explosion can proper rock fragment

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Ballistic projectiles

35
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Magma contains dissolved gases

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Volcanic gases

36
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Is an overflow of water (or rarely the other fluids)

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Flood

37
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The inner core is extremely dense that made up of solid iron and is intensety

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Inner core and outer core

38
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Movement of plates leads to the formation of folds faults trenches rift walley and mountain range

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✓Divergent plate boundaries, which are associated with the formation of rift valleys
✓Convergent plate boundaries move toward one another, pushing into one another
✓Transform boundaries involve two plate sliding past one another

39
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Sedimentary layer deposited over angular (tilted or folded)rock

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Angular unconformity

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