EARTH SCIENCE Flashcards

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How God separated light from darkness, created the sky, land, sea, moon, stars, and every living creature in a span of six days

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BOOK OF GENESIS

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An oscillating universe in which “cosmic egg” or Brahmanda

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HINDU TEXT RIGVEDA

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the whole universe expands out of a single concentrated point

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BINDU

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believed in a primordial universe and explained that the original state of the cosmos was a primordial mixture of all its ingredients.

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ANAXAGORAS

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believed in an atomic universe (small, indivisible, indestructible)

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LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS

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earth is spherical because it always cast a curved shadow when it eclipses the moon

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ARISTOTLE

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When the moon positioned between Earth and the sun and casts a shadow over Earth

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SOLAR ECLIPSE

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When the Earth positions itself between the sun and the moon casting a shadow across the ______ surface

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LUNAR ECLIPSE

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geocentric universe where earth stayed motionless in the heavens and everything is revolving around it

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PTOLEMY

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Where the Earth is centered

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PTOLEMAIC OR GEOCENTRIC

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Concept of consolation, determined the location of 850 starts

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HIPPARCHUS

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heliocentrism or heliocentric principle

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ARISTARCHUS

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Heliocentrict is ____ centered?

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SUN CENTERED

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Adapted theory of heliocentrism. Even without earth in solar system, it can’t affect the other celestial object

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NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

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Express the idea of stellar parallax that if the earth does revolve along an orbit around the Sun

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TYCHO BRAHE

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Basic laws of planetary

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JOHANNES KEPLER

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First description of the moving objects an invented the refracting telescope

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GALILEO GALILEI

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provides view by looking through lens that focus on one eyepiece

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REFRACTING TELESCOPE

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Conceptualized the force of gravity and invented the reflecting telescope

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ISAAC NEWTON

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focusing light through a concave mirror

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REFLECTING TELESCOPE

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Defined as a group of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets

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SOLAR SYSTEM

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a chemical process in which a substance reacts rapidly with oxygen and gives off heat

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COMBUSTION

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model constrained in the formation of solar system

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SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY

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Starting is cloud - twist and flatten where our solar system is created

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NEBULA HYPOTHESIS

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the sun burst open and shot out and went to their places; we are from the sun
FISSION THEORY
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Planets and moon captured by our sun and began circling
CAPTURE THEORY
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Pile of dust and rock chunks pushed together into our planet, same into our moon of the process
ACCRETION THEORY
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Our world collided with small planet
PLANETARY COLLISION THEORY
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Collision between stars where the planets, moons and sun came to existence
STELLAR COLLISION THEORY
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Gas clouds were captured by our sun and they began whirling and the existence of planets and moons began
GAS CLOUD THEORY
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the principle of physics and mathematics to learn about the fundamental nature of the universe.
ASTRONOMERS
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a natural celestial body (outside earth) and evolution of such objects and all phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of the Earth
ASTRONOMY
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Composed of rocks, metals, high densities, slow in rotation, with weak magnetic field and absence of rings
TERRESTRIAL PLANETS
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Composed of gases with low densities but fast rotation. They have many moons and often even rings of ice or dust
JOVIAN PLANETS
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Center of the solar system
SUN
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Solar System (chronological order)
MERCURY, VENUS, EARTH, MARS, JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS, NEPTUNE
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Group of rocks that appears to have never joined from the planet
ASTEROID BELT
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Explain Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite
METEOROID (SPACE), METEOR (ATMOSPHERE), METEORITE (EARTH)
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A very large and very weathered meteorite which was recovered from the Bondoc Peninsula on Luzon Island
BONDOC
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loose particles of rocks that blanket the surface
REGOLITH
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oceanic and continental crust and mantle
LITHOSPHERE
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Causes earthquake
TECTONIC PLATES
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Made up of rocks, minerals, magma and sand; Inner core; Solid earth
GEOSPHERE/LITHOSPHERE
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Thinnest Layer; where continents and bottoms of the oceans are located
CRUST
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Made of molten rock; 82 earth's volume; where volcanoes comes from
MANTLE
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Innermost layer
CORE
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permanent frozen parts
CYROSPHERE
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the total amount of water on a planet.
HYDROSPHERE
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Mixture of gases( nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, and water vapor that surrounds the planet.
ATMOSPHERE
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Where weather occurs and takes 75% of atmosphere mass
TROPOSPHERE
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Where ozone layer is located and 2nd lowest atmosphere
STRATOSPHERE
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coldest sphere and where meteors burn upon entry
MESOSPHERE
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hottest sphere and where low orbit satellites located
THERMOSPHERE
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Outermost layer
EXOSPHERE
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All terrestrial ecosystem, life forms and organism survive
BIOSPHERE
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balance of substances in the different substances of earth
BIOCHEMICAL
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ensures the adequate amount and flow of gases on Earth-gases which are used by most organisms on the planet
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
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Solid material possessing a definite chemical structure that occur naturally but does not have life
MINERALS
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Study of Minerals
MINEROLOGY
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Element of Mineral
ATOM
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Growth pattern of crystals of different mineral that is determined by the environment by the environment
CRYSTAL FORM
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The amount of light reflected by the surface of the mineral
LUSTER
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Visual perception of color of the mineral
COLOR
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The color of the mineral in its pure powdered form
STREAK
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The degree of how hard the mineral can be scratched
HARDNESS
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Splitting of crystals along a smooth surface
CLEAVAGE
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Minerals split away from its axis
FRACTURE
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Ratio of the weight of a mineral to weight of an equal of water
SPECIFIC GRAVITY
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minerals that contain Si2O3
SILICATE
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Most abundant group
FELDSPAR
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2nd most abundant
QUARTZ
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do not contain Si
NON SILICATE
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type of rick that contains useful metallic minerals that can be mined for a profit
ORE
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Molten rock cools down and hardens
IGNEUOS ROCK
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formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation
SEDEMENTARY ROCKS
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formed by heat and pressure
METAMORPHIC