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Crust

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1% of Earth, 10-80km

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Mantle

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75% of Earth, 3500 km. Made up of iron, magnesium, and calcium

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Core

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2300 km outer core, 1200 km inner core. Made of iron-nickel alloy

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Lithosphere

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Crust and upper mantle. 30 separate plates that move slowly upon the asthenosphere beneath

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Igneous

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Hardening of molten rock/magma. Granite, pumice, basalt, obsidian.

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Sedimentary

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Sedimentation, rocks cemented together. Shale, sandstone, gypsum, dolomite, coal

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Metamorphic

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Existing rock altered through temperature, pressure, or chemical processes. Marble, slate, gneiss, quartzite.

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Precambrian eon

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4.6 billion - 570 million, period before fossil record

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Water/hydrologic cycle

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Evaporation> transpiration> condensation> precipitation

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Carbon cycle

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Carbon released through human emissions and respiration, reabsorbed by plants and soil

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Troposphere

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Lowest level of atmosphere where weather takes place

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Stratosphere

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Ozone layer. Responsible for absorbing sun’s ultraviolet radiation.

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Mesosphere

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90km, temperature drops -90C, falling stars

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Thermosphere

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Temperature raises as high as 2000C because there’s little to deflect solar radiation

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Warm front

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Warm air mass overtakes cold. Can cause rain, snow, sleet, or freezing rain.

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Cold Front

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Cold air mass overtakes warm. May cause precipitation

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Stationary front

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Two air masses meet and neither is displaced. Can cause cloudy, wet weather

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Stratus clouds

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Low-hanging, broad, flat clouds. Fog. Dark means heavy rain soon

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Cumulus clouds

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Massive, puffy, flat bottom. When dark heavy rain will occur

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Cirrus clouds

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Thin, wispy, at high atmosphere

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The sun

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G2V star or yellow dwarf, approximately 6000C on the surface. Estimated 4.7 billion years old. Superheated plasma

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Terrestrial planets

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, meaning they are similar with inner metal cores and rock surfaces. Earth and Mars are the only ones with moons, Earth is largest

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Outer planets

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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. All have rings mostly composed of ice crystal

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Meteoroids

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Fragments of asteroids and comets. Meteors

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Kuiper Belt

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Large collection of asteroids, lies beyond known planets

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Comets

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Mixture of ices and dusts