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Title: Earth science
Description: very descriptive notes on the foundation an institute if earth science and almost all its properties.

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Earth Science
Astronomy is earths position in the solar system makes it just the right temperature for liquid
water
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Geology is the movement of continents around the globe through time changes ocean currents,
which in turn change the climate and can even cause ice ages
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Earth scientists study the air, water, space and earth to explain phenomena such as rain, tides,
meteors and earth quakes
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Geosphere is the portions of earth made up of rock
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Earth science is broken into four small parts
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The greatest snowfall on a single day in recorded history occurred in silver Lake Colorado, in
April 1921, with 75 inches of snow
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Correlation is a close relationship between two variables in an event or situation
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In 1638 a spectacular earthquake and a series of volcanic eruptions devastated southern Italy,
Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit Priest climbed mount Etha and had himself lowered by a rope
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Cartographers specialize in the markings on maps
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Projection is the conversion of a three dimensional object into a two-dimensional object
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Planimetric map is a map that shows geographic location of features on a horizontal plane but
does not show the elevation
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Topographic map is a map that is depicting the features and elevation of the land surface
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Legend is a list of symbols on a map
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Topography are the features and elevation of the land surface
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Relief is the difference in elevation between the high and low points of a landscape
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Horizon is the apparent junction between earth and sky from any observer’s position
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Infrared is light that is redder than the reducible to humans, this wavelength of light transfers
heat energy
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Convection is heat from the sun and heat from earth’s interior drive the motions of the
atmospheres hydrosphere, and geosphere
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Cycling of matter and energy Is where earth is the ultimate recycler, water, air and even rocks
are subject to cycles that operate over time frames that span minutes to millions of years
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Density is the amount of mass per unit volume
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Matter is something that takes up space
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Kinetic energy is the energy associated with motion
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Rock cycle is the sequence of events and processes that change one type of rock into another
type of rock
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Fall, winter, summer and spring
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One big aspect in earth science is the Big Bang Theory
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Speed of light is the speed that light is able to travel in a vacuum (about 300,000 km or 186,000
miles per second)

The questions you ask today like “how old is the universe?”
“What did the universe look like in the beginning?”
“How would you even determine such a thing?”

The scientists who are trying to find the answers to those questions are astronomers and
physicists
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Light waves in the visible spectrum move from lowest to highest frequency as the colors red,
orange, yellow, green, blue and violet (ROYGBIV) this means that a light source moving toward
an observer appears to change frequency toward the blue end of the spectrum, A light source
moving away from an observer appears red
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It was his only asteroid discovery
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Blueshift is the shortening of a wavelength due to the movement of the light source towards
the observer
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A good scientist does not accept a theory that does not have a solid foundation of evidence in
this way, the field of science is self-correcting
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-space is so vast that even light takes a really long time to get anywhere
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-scientists think that the universe began between 10 to 20 billion years ago with the big bang
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-the cosmic microwave background radiation
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A Galaxy is a large collection of stars and plants
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There are roughly 200 billion galaxies in the universe
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10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 there are at least this many stars in the universe
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The solar system are the planets or other objects that orbit a star
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Gravity is an attractive force exerted by all matter
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Core is the center of an astronomical body it may be solid, liquid or even orbiting black holes
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Halo is a sparse area that surrounds a galaxy containing older stars
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Black hole is a point in space with a gravitational field so intense that light cannot escape
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Irregular galaxy is a galaxy that can have any shape
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Visible light is light that can see with our eyes
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Stellar equilibrium is the balancing act between the energy exploding out from the fusion in the
core and the gravitational attraction of the star mass
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Sediment is material that settles on the bottom of water
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Marshes are wetlands characterized by grasses and other similar plant life
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Wetlands are areas in which the ground is saturated with water
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Gradient is height between high and low points of the ground
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Tributaries are streams
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Meanders are river curves
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Delta is the alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
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Flood plain is a strip of flat land lying next to a river that is covered with water when the river
floods
Title: Earth science
Description: very descriptive notes on the foundation an institute if earth science and almost all its properties.