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Title: Science
Description: 1st quarter exam
Number of Cards: 23
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Author: mariarad7
Created: 2002-11-04
Tags: earth earthsciences
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    • Question
    • Answer
    • Side 3
    • 23 degrees south of the equator
    • Tropic od Capricorn
    • Difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars
    • the Gregorian calendar is more accurate. in it, every fourth century year (1600, 2000, etc.) is a leap year
    • The gradual changing of organic matter into a stonylike substance
    • Petrification
    • Uses a series of cones with slightly different shapes to make a map. The projection that is produced is nearly perfect in all respects for small areas
    • What is a Polyconic projection
    • Movement of the earth around the sun
    • Revolution
    • Minerals can be identified by what properties
    • Physical Properties
    • Shows the risinf and descending nature of an area
    • relief map
    • Three layer of the earth
    • Crust, mantle and core
    • Rocks that are made up of sedimentary or igneous rocks that have changed in form
    • metamorphic
    • Formed from the remains of dead plants
    • Coal
    • Most abundant metal in the earth's crust
    • ALuminum
    • Rock formed from the accumulation of the remains of dead plants or animals
    • Organic sedimentary rock
    • Warm current of water flowing between the Gulf of Mexico and Newfoundland
    • Gulf Stream
    • Sudden drops in the ocean floor
    • deeps
    • layer of exposed bedrock
    • outcrop
    • the amount of salt in the ocean
    • salinity
    • Three major classifications of rocks
    • Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary
    • Location east or west if the prime meridian
    • Longitude
    • The remains, impressions, or tracks of an organism that lived in the past
    • Fossils
    • How long it takes the earth to complete orbit around the sun
    • 365 days
    • The location north or south of the equator
    • Latitude
    • Ways that the earth differs from other planets
    • Oceans, living organisms, oxygen
    • Imaginary line connecting the North and South Poles
    • axis