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| 12465750069 | Convergent boundary | A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other. | 0 | |
| 12476272625 | Divergent boundary | variant, moving apart | 1 | |
| 12476275844 | Transforming boundary | Two plates sliding past each other | 2 | |
| 12476287085 | Richter scale | A scale that rates an earthquake's magnitude based on the size of its seismic waves. 1-9 | 3 | |
| 12476293630 | Causes of Earthquakes | Plates move against each other because heat can not be contained, it has to move and get out. The heat rises and the energy has to be released. | 4 | |
| 12476311429 | Volcano | Hole in earth's crust where magma, carbon and other gasses can be released | 5 | |
| 12476321699 | shield volcano | a wide, gently sloping mountain made of layers of lava and formed by quiet eruptions |  | 6 |
| 12476329030 | Strato volcano | The common idea of volcanoes. Constant eruption, really tall, pointy and rocky. |  | 7 |
| 12476340682 | cinder cone volcano | A small, steeply sloped volcano that forms from moderately explosive eruptions of pyroclastic material. |  | 8 |
| 12476354184 | Causes of volcanoes | Consequence of movement between plate boundaries or pressure release near a boundary (Fault Zone) | 9 | |
| 12476366331 | Why do seasons occur? | The axis splits the direction of photonic energy into 4 main parts, our seasons! | 10 | |
| 12476391267 | Solar intensity | The amount of solar energy striking a location in a single hour | 11 | |
| 12476396632 | Earth's Tilt | 23.5 degrees | 12 | |
| 12476406871 | Atmosphere composition | 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 1% trace elements. | 13 | |
| 12476412248 | Troposphere | The lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere, where we do our activities, fly planes, high pressure | 14 | |
| 12476422110 | Lithosphere | A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust. | 15 | |
| 12476426613 | Stratosphere | The second-lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere. Contains the ozone layer, low pressure, temp is cold in the lower range and warmer in the upper. | 16 | |
| 12476437290 | Mesosphere | 3rd layer of the atmosphere, Meteorites, pressure is virtually 0. Temp. coldest in the atmosphere, window to the universe. | 17 | |
| 12476440197 | Thermosphere | The outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere. really thin, nothing really out there, weak gravity so gases will transitions to vacuum of space. | 18 | |
| 12476451790 | order of atmospheric layers | troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere |  | 19 |
| 12476458190 | Weather | The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place. wind, heat, dryness, humidity, precipitation,etc | 20 | |
| 12476458191 | Climate | Overall weather in an area over a long period of time. | 21 | |
| 12476481436 | La Nina | A cooling of the ocean surface off the western coast of South America, occurring periodically every 4 to 12 years and affecting Pacific and other weather patterns. | 22 | |
| 12476481437 | El Nino | A warm ocean current that flows along the coast of Peru every seven to fourteen years | 23 | |
| 12476489340 | Coriolis Effect | The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents. | 24 | |
| 12476518982 | fresh water global percent | 2.5% - Most from ice caps and glaciers then ground water | 25 | |
| 12476523185 | Salt water global percent | 96.5% from the ocean | 26 | |
| 12476601305 | How much water is used in agriculture? | 68.3% | 27 | |
| 12476610337 | How much water is used in industry? | 21.3% | 28 | |
| 12476612939 | How much water is used domestic? | 8.6% | 29 | |
| 12476623758 | Groundwater issues | Building can cause flooding. More ground water and less evaporating. Also people are causing aquifer depletion which can cause sinkholes and all that stuff. | 30 | |
| 12476699613 | Drought issues | People are idiots and take more water than they need. Wetlands dry up and organisms are affected by this, Estuaries become saltier. | 31 | |
| 12476720518 | Subsidence | the sinking of regions of the Earth's crust to lower elevations, due to aquifer depletion | 32 | |
| 12476730117 | Sinkholes | Can form from subsidence, aquifer depletion, oil drilling | 33 | |
| 12476756999 | 5 factors of the formation of soil | climate, biology, relief, parent material, time | 34 | |
| 12476782276 | Composition of soil | 45% mineral, 25% air, 25% water, 5% organic matter | 35 | |
| 12476789291 | Porosity | The percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that consists of open spaces. | 36 | |
| 12476792079 | Percolation | The downward movement of water through soil and rock due to gravity. | 37 | |
| 12476795899 | Ion Exchange | a process by which one ion is displaced by another | 38 | |
| 12476795900 | Soil Horizons | horizontal layers that reveal a soil's history, characteristics, and usefulness | 39 | |
| 12476808301 | Soil Problems | - Erosion: the mechanical loss of topsoil - Contamination: soil pollution - Salinization: increasing the salinity of soil due to improper irrigation | 40 | |
| 12476855965 | 0th Law of Thermodynamics | If two systems are in thermodynamic equilibrium with a third system, then they are in thermal equilibrium with each other. | 41 | |
| 12476862558 | 1st law of thermodynamics | Energy cannot be created or destroyed | 42 | |
| 12476866437 | 2nd law of thermodynamics | Every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe. | 43 | |
| 12476873198 | Entropy | There is always a bit of energy released during a reaction. This is referred to as a state of "disorder". Eventually, everything physical will end. | 44 | |
| 12476942147 | Levels of ecological organization | organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere | 45 | |
| 12476947073 | Levels of ecosystems | Producer, Primary consumer, secondary consumer, Tertiary consumer | 46 | |
| 12476971203 | Mutualism | A relationship between two species in which both species benefit | 47 | |
| 12476971204 | Commensalism | A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected | 48 | |
| 12476974978 | Parasitism | A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is harmed | 49 | |
| 12476982699 | Keystone Species | A species that influences the survival of many other species in an ecosystem, deer | 50 | |
| 12477314843 | cellular respiration | Process that releases energy by breaking down glucose and other food molecules in the presence of oxygen | 51 | |
| 12477337752 | Sinks | when a reservoir releases more materials than it accepts | 52 | |
| 12477337753 | Sources | when a reservoir accepts more materials than it releases | 53 | |
| 12477385656 | Carbon cycle | Routes that carbon takes through the environment. (Should not be found in the air it should be underground), Main source is in the lithosphere. | 54 | |
| 12477397013 | Nitrogen cycle | Nitrogen is should be found in the atmosphere at high concentrations but it can be found in the ground. | 55 | |
| 12477397014 | phosphorus cycle | The movement of phosphorus atoms from rocks through the biosphere and hydrosphere and back to rocks. The processes that move phosphorus from these sinks to living matter Not in the atmosphere, Aquatic and terrestrial organisms take up phosphates from water and soil | 56 | |
| 12477400591 | Standards | criteria that help differentiate right from wrong, ex. Golden rule | 57 | |
| 12482362008 | Instrumental Value | to value something for its pragmatic benefits by using it. Ex. Forests are valuable because we can harvest timber from them | 58 | |
| 12482364367 | Intrinsic Value | to value something for its own sake because it has a right to exist. Ex. Forests are valuable because they provide homes to countless organisms that all have the right to live | 59 | |
| 12482367895 | Anthropocentrism | belief that only humans have intrinsic value | 60 | |
| 12482373475 | Biocentrism | belief that some nonhuman life has intrinsic value | 61 | |
| 12482384992 | Preservation ethic | view that unspoiled nature should be protected for its own intrinsic value, John Muir | 62 | |
| 12482394294 | Conservation ethic | Gifford Pinchot, view that people should use natural resources wisely for the greatest good for the most people | 63 | |
| 12482407289 | The Tragedy of the Commons | a parable that illustrates why common resources are used more than is desirable from the standpoint of society as a whole, Garret Hardin | 64 | |
| 12482410972 | Classical Economics | when people pursue economic self-interest in a competitive marketplace, Invisible hand, Supply and demand | 65 | |
| 12482420446 | Environmental Economics | field that maintains we must reduce our demand for resources and make their use more efficient to achieve sustainable growth | 66 | |
| 12482434702 | Ecological Footprint | the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources. | 67 | |
| 12482443518 | exponential growth | growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size. |  | 68 |
| 12482456347 | logistic growth | Growth pattern in which a population's growth rate slows or stops following a period of exponential growth, limited |  | 69 |
| 12482470817 | K-selected | Small amounts of energy but parenting | 70 | |
| 12482472528 | R-selected | A lot of energy, a lot of offspring, no parenting | 71 | |
| 12482523861 | survivorship curve | Graph showing the number of survivors in different age groups for a particular species. |  | 72 |
| 12482526883 | Type 1 survivorship curve | Higher death rate at older ages | 73 | |
| 12482529021 | type 2 survivorship curve | same death rate at all ages | 74 | |
| 12482530836 | type 3 survivorship curve | higher death rate at young ages | 75 | |
| 12482539864 | Shortest day of the year | December 21 | 76 | |
| 12482541730 | Longest day of the year | June 21 | 77 |
