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| 10842259106 | Latitude | Distance north or south of the equator | 0 | |
| 10842261895 | Longitude | Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees | 1 | |
| 10842264448 | Altitude | elevation above sea level or above the earth's surface | 2 | |
| 10842270644 | Elevation | height above sea level | 3 | |
| 10842276787 | pH | measures the acidity of a solution. It is the negative log of the concentration of the hydrogen ions in a substance | 4 | |
| 10842287712 | Organic | molecules containing 2 or more carbons | 5 | |
| 10842293250 | Evaporation | The change of a substance from a liquid to a gas | 6 | |
| 10842295623 | Condensation | The change of state from a gas to a liquid | 7 | |
| 10842300415 | Transpiration | Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant | 8 | |
| 10842321588 | 1st law of thermodynamics | Energy cannot be created or destroyed | 9 | |
| 10842325116 | Entropy | a measure of the disorder of a system | 10 | |
| 10842330203 | 2nd law of thermodynamics | Every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe. | 11 | |
| 10842334362 | weather | Short term temperature and precipitation in a area ( Unpredictable) | 12 | |
| 10842350508 | climate | The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time ( predictable) | 13 | |
| 10842364056 | ozone layer | Layer of the stratosphere with a high concentration of ozone; absorbs most of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation, made of O3, harmful to breath | 14 | |
| 10842377051 | Salinity | the amount of salt in a solution | 15 | |
| 10842383812 | Convection | Energy movement within a fluid | 16 | |
| 10842401035 | Conduction | Energy transfer from one material to another | 17 | |
| 10842419107 | Isotope | Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons, radioactive usually | 18 | |
| 10842426264 | Radiation | Energy that can move through mediums and vacuums | 19 | |
| 10842435207 | Albedo | How reflective the earth's surface is most reflective; ice , least reflective; soil, snow, water, rocks | 20 | |
| 10842458464 | inner core | A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth | 21 | |
| 10842462714 | outer core | A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth | 22 | |
| 10842471206 | Magnetosphere | Electro magnetic field caused by core, protects life from harmful particles and energy. | 23 | |
| 10842487478 | Mantle | The layer of hot, solid material between Earth's crust and core. | 24 | |
| 10842493457 | continental drift | Wegener's theory that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface. | 25 | |
| 10842500066 | plate tectonics | explains how continents move. | 26 | |
| 10842505755 | Asthenosphere | liquid layer of rock below crust and above mantle (thin) | 27 | |
| 10842532826 | convergent boundary | A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other. | 28 | |
| 10842540447 | divergent boundary | A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other. | 29 | |
| 10842543370 | transform boundary | A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions | 30 | |
| 10842546123 | Subduction | One plate going under another plate | 31 | |
| 10842549798 | Pangea | A supercontinent containing all of Earth's land that existed about 225 million years ago. | 32 | |
| 10842553398 | Igneous | rock formed from cooled magma or lava ex; granite, pumice | 33 | |
| 10842563722 | Metamorphic | When other rocks are compressed and melted; Marble | 34 | |
| 10842571448 | Sedimentary | forms from tiny particles sticking together; sandstone, limestone | 35 | |
| 10842590226 | Law of Superposition | The top rock layer and its fossils is the youngest and the bottom is the oldest. | 36 | |
| 10842595171 | Equinox | Each of the two times of the year when days and nights are of equal length | 37 | |
| 10842598917 | Solstice | Either the longest day or the shortest | 38 | |
| 10842609790 | Epicenter | Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus | 39 | |
| 10842616441 | Isostasy | The balancing of the downward force of the crust and the upward force of the mantle. | 40 | |
| 10842620831 | P waves | A type of seismic wave that compresses and expands the ground, fastest wave. | 41 | |
| 10842629615 | S waves | A type of seismic wave that moves the ground up and down or side to side, "shear waves" | 42 | |
| 10842636042 | L waves | last wave to arrive, slowest, up and down motion, causes the most damage to us, move laterally | 43 | |
| 10842644922 | focus | The point beneath Earth's surface where plates shift during an earthquake | 44 | |
| 10842658835 | Caldera | The large hole at the top of a volcano formed when the roof of a volcano's magma chamber collapses. | 45 | |
| 10842680500 | Troposphere | 0-17 km above Earth's surface, site of weather, organisms, contains most atmospheric water vapor. (temperature decreases with increasing altitude, pressure decreases) | 46 | |
| 10842683196 | Stratosphere | 2nd layer of atmosphere; extends from 10 to 30 miles up; location of ozone layer; absorbs 95% of Ultraviolet radiation; temperature increases with altitude increase. | 47 | |
| 10842686285 | Mesosphere | The layer of Earth's atmosphere immediately above the stratosphere, temperature decreases as altitude increases | 48 | |
| 10842694712 | Thermosphere | the region of the atmosphere above the mesosphere and below the height at which the atmosphere ceases to have the properties of a continuous medium. The thermosphere is characterized throughout by an increase in temperature with height. | 49 | |
| 10842702993 | Tropic of Capricorn | 23.5 degrees south latitude | 50 | |
| 10842705869 | Tropic of Cancer | 23.5 degrees north latitude | 51 | |
| 10842711227 | Ring of Fire | the chain of volcanoes that lines the Pacific Rim | 52 | |
| 10842714444 | El Nino | an irregularly occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region and beyond every few years, characterized by the appearance of unusually warm, nutrient-poor water off northern Peru and Ecuador, typically in late December. | 53 | |
| 11060658678 | Ferrel Cell | A convection current in the atmosphere that lies between Hadley cells and polar cells | 54 | |
| 11060658679 | Hadley Cell | Convection Currents that cycle between the equator, 30 degrees North and South. | 55 | |
| 11060658680 | Polar Cell | Cells of air circulation occurring between 60 degrees north and south and each pole. | 56 | |
| 11060658681 | Coriolis effect | Causes moving air and water to turn left in the southern hemisphere and turn right in the northern hemisphere due to Earth's hemisphere. | 57 | |
| 11060658682 | hurricane | A tropical storm that has winds of about 119 kilometers per hour or higher. | 58 | |
| 11060658683 | tornado | a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground, winds up to 300 mph | 59 | |
| 11060658684 | storm surge | a rising of the sea as a result of atmospheric pressure changes and wind associated with a storm. | 60 | |
| 11060658685 | thermohaline currents | currents formed as a result of both the temperature of the water AND the amount of salt in it | 61 | |
| 11060658686 | Upwelling | The movement of deep, cold, and nutrient-rich water to the surface | 62 |
