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1
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Describe the four systems of the earth

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Geosphere
Atmosphere
Biosphere
Hydrosphere

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Geosphere

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earth and all its layers

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What are the three layers of a geosphere

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Crust, mantle, and core

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Layers of the sun and the order of them.

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Core -> radiation -> convection zone -> photosphere -> chromosphere -> corona

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Atmosphere

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A blanket of gas that surronds the Earth

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what are the five layers of the atmosphere

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troposphere(tropical shower), stratosphere(straps on boots by the door), mesosphere(mess by the toilet), thermosphere(beday has tempure) and exosphere(exit through the door)

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What are the purposes of the atmosphere

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Oxygen to give life, Protects from uv rays from sun, Regulates temp.

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Hydrospere

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all water in earth(includes glacier,clouds, ocean, and all forms of water including gasses

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Bioshpere

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all orgiams and the enviroment they live in

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what are the five areas of earth science

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astromy, meteorology ,geology ,biology ,cosmology

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lines on a topographic map are called what

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depression contour lines

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How are solar flares related to the solar activity cyle(aka sunspot cycle)

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more sunspots, more solar flares

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What happens to the core of the sun when it runs out of hydrogen for fuel (size, temp, new fuel?)

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core shrinks, then increase of temp, new fuel is then helium

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two types of stars that can from after a supernova are what

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nutron stars and black holes

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what determines the type of a star a star will become

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density , mass and hydrogen and helium.

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what is the heaviest element that can be prudeced in a star

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iron

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17
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what stars produce iron

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supergiants

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18
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what does a stars absorption spectra tell us

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temp and composition of a stare

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19
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what is fusion

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how energy is produced in a star

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solar flare

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violent eruption on the sun

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solar wind

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streams of plasma from the corona at high speed

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prominece

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arc of plasma

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black hole

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dense star that is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing — no particles or even electromagnetic radiation such as light — can escape from it.

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nebula

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condensed cloud of interstellar gas

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supernova

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outward explosion of gas

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prostar

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rotating disk, disk shape

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27
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what happens during redshift

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redshift is moving away

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28
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What does redshift tell us about the universe

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the universe is expanding

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29
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what are the three outcomes of the universe

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open closed flat

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30
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open out come of the universe is :

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will forever continuously expand

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31
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closed outcome of the universe

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expansion will stop and be pulled back to original starting point

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32
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flat outcome of the universe

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slows to a stop

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33
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big bang theory

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universe started at one point and has been expanding ever since

34
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universe is how old

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13.8 byo

35
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local group

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SMALL clusters of galaxies

36
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outward expansion of the universe is increasing by inward froce

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true

37
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rr lyrae varibles pusation periods and distance

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pp= 1.5 hrs to 1..2 days and it is closer to earth than cephid variables

38
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cephid varibles pulsation periods and distance

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pp=1-100 days farther than rrlyraea variables from earth

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supercluster

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super huge galaxies that are hundreds of millions of light years in size

40
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cosmology

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study of the universe its nature and its origen

41
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population one stars age

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younger than 10 bil.

42
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population one stars location

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disk and arms

43
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population one stars percentage of element heavier than helium

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2% one person( one pop star holdings 2 balloons)

44
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p2s stars location

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halo and bulge

45
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p2s stars age

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older than 10 bil

46
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p2s stars percentage of element heavier than helium

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.1% (two people one balloon)

47
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each planet’s orbit about the Sun is an ellipse.

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Kepler’s first law

48
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planet moves faster when closer to the sun and slower when farther fom the sun in an ellipse

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Kepler’s second law

49
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period for a planet to orbit the Sun increases rapidly with the radius of its orbit.

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Kepler’s third law

50
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gaint impact theory

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marz sized object hit earth made moon

51
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eccentricity and relation of shape of orbit

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closer to 0 more round closer to one more ovular

52
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sun formed in center

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true

53
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planets form in :

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rotating disk

54
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plantes:

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MVEMJSUN

55
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equinox

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equal # of night

56
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Solstice

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max number of daylight hours

57
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metor

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streak of light

58
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asteriod

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rocky planetesimal

59
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metorite

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collieds with ground

60
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metoriods

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fragmen of a asteroid

61
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five principles of relitive dating

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original horizantaily superpostion, cross cutting relationships, inclusions, lateral continuity

62
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era epochs periods and eons in ored in longest to shortees amout of time

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era, eon, period, epoch

63
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age of reptiles

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mezizoic

64
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age of mamles

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mezosoic

65
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dinosauers extint

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mezosoic

66
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largest mass extinction

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paleozoic

67
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sources of haet in early earth:

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radioactivity, impacgs,

68
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3 rock evidence

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zircon, astrialus age, and moon rocks

69
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ocean floor is how old

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180 mill

70
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pangea is how old

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200mill

71
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ocean floor formed after pangea broke apart

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caused pangea to never go back together

72
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what boundry dooes seafloor speading ocour at

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divergent, and ocean ridges

73
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ocean trench which boundry

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convergent

74
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mid ocean trench which boundry

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divergent

75
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subduction zone which boundry

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convergent

76
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mountain range which boundry

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c-c

77
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volcanic mountain range which boundry

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o-c

78
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volcainic islands which boundry

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o-o

79
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rift vally which boundry

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divergent

80
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whereas are most divergent bundies found?

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seafloor, and rift vallys

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