Important vocabulary words for the NYS Earth Science Regents
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| 13060572563 | Solstice | most hours of daylight in the Northern Hemisphere when the sun is directly above the Tropic of Cancer or least hours of daylight when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Capricorn, first day of the summer and the first day of winter |  | 0 |
| 13060572564 | Stationary front | boundary between 2 air masses that are not moving |  | 1 |
| 13060572569 | Tropic of Cancer | Farthest north the vertical ray of sunlight reaches on June 21 (summer solstice) 23 1/2 degrees north of equator |  | 2 |
| 13060572570 | Tropic of Capricorn | Farthest south the vertical ray of sunlight reaches December 21 (winter solstice) 23 1/2 degrees south of equator |  | 3 |
| 13060572571 | Tropical air mass | warm air mass |  | 4 |
| 13060572572 | Troposphere | lowest layer of air, reaches from Earth's surface up to about 12 km that contains most of the atmosphere, layer where all the weather on Earth is located |  | 5 |
| 13060572573 | Unconformity | gap in the geologic record caused by the erosion of sediments or rock followed by new depsoition |  | 6 |
| 13060572575 | vertical ray | sunlight that strikes Earth from directly overhead (zenith) | 7 | |
| 13060572576 | vesicular | rock containing many holes created by expanding gas as magma rose ton earths surface |  | 8 |
| 13060572577 | volume | amount of space that matter occupies | 9 | |
| 13060572578 | warm front | boundary between a mass of warm air and the colder air it is replacing |  | 10 |
| 13060572579 | Watershed | drainage basin the geographic area in which water drains into a particular stream or other body of water |  | 11 |
| 13060572580 | water table | boundary at the top of the saturated zone with fractured bedrock or soil, varies with location and amount of precipitation |  | 12 |
| 13060572581 | water vapor | water in the form of a gas |  | 13 |
| 13060572582 | Weather | short-term condition of the atmosphere, including the changes that occur within hours or days |  | 14 |
| 13060572583 | weathering | breakdown of rock due to physical or chamical change |  | 15 |
| 13060572584 | windward | side of a mountain range where air is forced to rise, leading to cloud formation and precipation |  | 16 |
| 13060572585 | zenith | point on a celestial sphere directly overhead with respect to observer (90 degrees) |  | 17 |
