Nov Science Word
Terms
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- to take in
- Absorb
- a blanket of gas that surrounds Earth
- Atmosphere
- a real or imaginary line that a spinning object truns around
- Axis
- a fossil formed or shaped within a mold
- Cast
- a chuck of ice and rock that orbits the Sun in a long, narrow orbit
- Comet
- the pricess in whivh water particles change from a gas to a liquid
- Condensation
- solid rock that makes up the Moon's and Earth's outermost layers
- Crust
- a long period of time with little or no precipition
- Drought
- movement or vibration in the rocks that make up Earth's crust
- Earthquake
- the wearing away of soil and rock particles by waves, wind, running water, or glaciers
- Erosion
- bursting or throwing forth
- Eruptions
- the process in which water particles change from a liquid to a gas
- Evaporation
- any evidence of an organism that lived in the past
- Fossil
- a force that causes objects to move toward the center of the earth, causes objects to have weight
- Gravity
- "Fire-Made" rock fromed from melted rock material
- Igneous Rock
- a fossil created by a print or impression
- Imprint
- a sliding down of mass of earth or rock on a steep slope
- Landslides
- a distance of static electricity from a thundercloud
- Lightening
- the layer of rock lying below the crust
- Mantle
- Rock whose form has changed by heat/pressure
- Metamorphic Rock
- a naturally occurring substance, neither a plant nor animal
- Minerals
- two or more types of matter that are mixed together but keep their own properties
- Mixture
- a fossil clearly showing hte outside features of the organism
- Mold
- the path an object follows as it revolves
- Orbit
- a satellite of the Sun
- Planet
- the adding of harmful substances to the water, air or land
- Pollution
- water in the atmospherie that falls to Earth as rain, snow, hail or sleet
- Precipitation
- quality of objects (example: texture, color, shape, size, buoyancy, magnetic attraction etc.)
- Properties
- a never ending process by which rocks are changed from one type to another
- Rock Cycle
- rock formed from bits or layers of rocks cemented together
- Sedimentary Rock
- a large region of the atmospher where the air has similiar properties throughout
- Air Mass
- the force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it
- Air Pressure
- a measure of how hot or cold something is
- Temperature
- an instrument used to measure temperature
- Thermometer
- a measurement of how much water vapor is in the air
- Humidity
- a boundary between air masses with different temperatures
- Front
- statement of what is to come, prediction about weather
- Forecast
- a front where cold air moves in under warm air
- Cold Front
- a boundary between air masses where the warm air mass slides up and over the cold air mass
- Warm Front
- condition of the atmosphere with respect to temperature, moisture, cloudiness: changes day to day
- Weather
- an instrumnet used to measure wind direction
- Weather Vane