6th Grade Earth Science Facts Flash Cards

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Title: 6th Grade Earth Science Facts
Description: Flashcards - tests in sets of 20
Number of Cards: 20
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Author: jensteve13
Created: 2005-08-14
Tags: 20-40 facts science
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    • Question
    • Answer
    • Side 3
    • Chemical Weathering
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    • Cinder Cone
    • A steep hill or mountain made of volcanic ash
    • Cleavage
    • A minerals ability to split along flat surfaces
    • Climate
    • The average temperature conditions in an area
    • Compaction
    • The process of sediments pressed together by their own weight
    • Compound
    • Two or more elements are chemically combined
    • Compression
    • Stress that squeezes a rock until it folds or breaks
    • Condensation
    • The process by which gas turns into a liquid
    • Conduction
    • The transfer of heat from one substance to another by direct contact
    • Continent
    • a great land mass surrounded by oceans
    • Continental Climate
    • The climate of the center of continents with cold winters and warm summers
    • Continental Shelf
    • A gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of a continent
    • Convergant Boundary
    • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
    • Coriolis Effect
    • The way the Earth's rotation effects the winds
    • Crater
    • A bowl shaped area that forms arounda volcano's central opening
    • Crust
    • Earth's outer layer
    • Crystal
    • A solid in which atoms are arranged in a pattern that repeats
    • Cumulus
    • Clouds that form close to the ground that look like fluffy, round piles of cotton
    • Cyclone
    • A swirling center of low air pressure
    • Decomposers
    • An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms