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56 Cards in this Set
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Areas of low-pressure have.....
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cloudy weather
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The hottest stars in space are ___________ in color?
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blue
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The boundary between cold and warm air masses is called....
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front
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Sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides can combine with moisture in the air to form.........
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acids
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A mid-ocean ridge is formed from....
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lava
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The intense magnetic fields of sunspots cause arch-like eruptions called.......
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prominences
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Good weather is caused by high pressure, why?
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the air masses sinks
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Wind at different___________ blows in different directions and different speeds to form tornadoes.
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heights
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Temperature when air is saturated and condensation forms is......
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dew point
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____________ is used to to divide geological time?
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organisms
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Sediment, fertilizers, and ______________ are all water pollutants.
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pesticides
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_____________ studies and forecasts the weather using data?
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meteorologist
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When one crustal plate if forced under another a ______________ is formed.
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trench
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______________ is a area so dense that nothing, Including LIGHT, can escape its gravity.
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black hole
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International treaties, education and __________________ are required to preventing ocean pollution.
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reducing land pollution
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North America's PACIFIC COAST has a narrow ________________.
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continental shelf
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A ___________ often occur's next to the continental shelf.
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continental slope
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There are ___________ that lava erupts through in the earth's crust.
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rifts
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______________________ is the area that is home to Coral Reefs
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continental shelves
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a positive way for a SINGLE person to IMPROVE air quality is to___________________?
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use public transportation
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Air pollution can be controlled by ______________?
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putting scrubbers on power plants
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At different times of the year, the position of constellations appears to change because_____________________?
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earth orbits the sun
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_______________ and storms occur at fronts.
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percipitation
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What is the process that allows organisms (birds, humans, bugs, etc) with characteristics suited to the environment WILL survive is called______________________?
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artificial selection
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Pouring hazardous waste DIRECTLY onto the ground will contaminate your _________________ after it passes though the soil.
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groundwater system
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People's hearts, eyes, and _______________ are affected by air pollution.
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lungs
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A POSITIVE way for a SINGLE person to reduce water pollution is to________________?
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reduce electricity use
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____________________ is the most powerful sever storm.
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hurricane
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When pesticides and fertilizers are used by farms they soak into the soil and pollute the __________________?
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water
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Humans first appeared during the __________________ Era?
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cenozoic
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Scrubbers installed on power plants can remove some of the __________________________?
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sulfur dioxide
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A ______________ is the LONGEST subdivision in geological time.
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eon
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Clouds with high, thin, white, feathery clouds can signal fair weather or approaching storms are called________________
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cirrus
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Plants produce ENERGY by using Water, Carbon Dioxide and _________________?
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sunlight
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Below freezing: water vapor directly to solid?
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snow
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A species will survive if it can adapt to a changing environment or ________________.
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evolve
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Hurricanes generally travel from ________________ (direction).
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east to west
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The direction of the wind and rain patterns both affect the formation of ________________.
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acid rain
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mammals, marine life and ________________ were all present in the Cenozoic Era.
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birds
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The strength of acid rain can be measured using a _________________ scale
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pH
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Mountains may have an affect on smog formation by ___________________?
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blocking air circulation
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Wave action, shipwrecks and ________________ are three ways that pollution could enter the ocean ecosystem.
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rain
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fog and smoke combine to form__________________?
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smog
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A CORRELATED rock layer means that the layers both contain the same________________?
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fossils
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_________________clouds are puffy, white, often flat bases that form when air currents RISE.
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cumulus
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When hydrogen atoms and helium atoms are fused together in the SUN, _________________ is produced.
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energy
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Changes in a species environment results in ______________ changes in the species.
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physical
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A whirling, violent wind that travels over-land in a path is a _______________.
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tornado
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Weather is a combination of the Sun, air and _______________.
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water
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Sulfurous smog is created when ________ is burned in electrical power plants.
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coal
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Some coal contains a high amount of _______________?
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sulfur
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The Sun's surface has cooler, dark areas know as _______________?
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sunspots
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Water vapor condenses into tiny drops, this saturated warm rising air, expands and cools FORMING __________________?
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clouds
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Our Sun Is NOT part of a ________________ system.
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binary
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A stratus cloud that forms NEAR the ground is called _____________?
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fog
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Thunderstorms may produce__________________?
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tornadoes
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