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1. Continental tropical (dry - warm air)

2. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog

3. Can influence climate by sending tremendous volumes of dust - ash - and smoke into the atmosphere

4. Two feldspars (orthoclase and plagioclase) - quartz - olivine - and augite - These five minerals are silicates - built from interlocking silicon and oxygen atoms

5. The movement (carrying away or displacement) of solids (sediment - soil - rock - and other particles) - usually by the agents of currents such as wind - water - or ice by downward or down - slope movement in response to gravity

6. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity

7. The cold - water current that flows north to south off the _____________ keeps the West Coast fairly cool during the summer - Cold - water currents create cooler temperatures in areas that would otherwise be much warmer

8. The North Pole is in the Arctic Ocean - and thus its temperature extremes are buffered by the water - The result is that the South Pole is consistently _______ during the southern winter than the North Pole during the northern winter

9. Occur along plate boundaries

10. Sedimentary rocks containing large fragments of other rock material - e.g. Sandstone

11. A major determiner of coastal climate

12. The spectra of distant objects display a red shift - which is interpreted as meaning that they are rapidly receding from us - This apparent expansion of the universe has given rise to the big bang theory of cosmology - in which one primeval mass expl

13. A huge ball of incandescent gases - Its mass is more than 300000 times that of the earth - Principal constituents are the lightest elements - hydrogen and helium

14. Huge systems of stars - Milky Way is estimated to have 100 billion stars arranged in a great disk

15. The precipitation that is intercepted by plant foliage and eventually evaporates back to the atmosphere rather than falling to the ground

16. Different visual appearance; when discovered - comets show a perceptible coma while asteroids do not

17. Seas - gulfs - bays - and other names

18. Spiral - elliptical - and irregular form are speckled throughout the visible universe - Largest telescope has detected galaxies to its limit of several billion light - years

19. Maritime tropical (wet - warm air)

20. Travels in an orbit that is slightly elliptical (oval) - and so the distance from the sun ranges from 91.5 to 94.5 million miles - Its daily rotation deforms the earth to a flattened spheroid - with a polar radius slightly less than the equatorial ra

21. 186000 miles/second

22. Characterized by similar temperatures and moisture levels

23. The tendency of a moving object to stay in a straight line or a stationary object to remain in place - Without _______ - a planet would be pulled into the sun

24. A continuous drill would find gas - oil - and water in that order - The three substances occur in their order of density - with the lightest substance on top and the heaviest on the bottom

25. - The materials left over after the rock breaks down combine with organic material - The mineral content is determined by the parent material; thus - a soil derived from a single rock type can often be deficient in one or more minerals for good ferti

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