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The boundary between two air masses.
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What is a front?
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Has the same weather as warm fronts.
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What are stationary fronts?
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Clockwise wind rotation, also known as
anticyclone.
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What is a high?
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Another word for a low pressure?
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What is a cyclone?
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These two things can cause air pressure to change.
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What are temperature and humidity?
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Heat is transferred in the form of infrared waves.
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What is radiation?
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State of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
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What is weather?
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Uses the principle that materials expand when
heated.
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What is a thermometer?
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Amount of water vapor in the air compared to the
amount of water vapor the air can hold.
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What is relative humidity?
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Whole layer of air cooled below the dew point
forms this.
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What are clouds?
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This layer of the planet is the biggest and
contains rocks rich in magnesium and iron.
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What is the mantle?
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This layer is solid and composed of iron and
nickel.
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What is the inner core?
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____ convection currents within the asthenosphere
drive the lithospheric plates apart, while ____
convection currents pull the plates together.
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What is rising (pull apart) and sinking (pull
together)?
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3 pieces of evidence used by Wegener to support
his theory of continental drift.
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What is fossil remains, coastline shape, and
distinctive rocks?
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Comprised of oceanic and continental lithosphere.
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What is the crust?
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Both collision and subduction boundaries are
types of what type of boundary?
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What are convergent boundaries?
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The type of boundary responsible for earthquake
damage in California is
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What are sliding boundaries (or transform)?
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The Himalayan Mountains are formed by this type
of boundary.
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What is continental-continental convergence?
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The pattern of magnetic reversals indicates that
the youngest rocks of the ocean floor are found
at ___ centers.
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What are spreading centers?
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The Mid-Atlantic ridge is a location where the
two plates are moving _____.
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What is away from each other?
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A collision boundary results when two ___ plates
collide and weld together. (Type of crust)
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What is continental?
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The San Andreas Fault is the result of what two
plates sliding past one another?
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What is the North American the Pacific Plates?
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Estimate of the total amount of mineral thought
to exist.
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What is resource?
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Examples of fossil fuels.
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What are coal, oil, natural gas, etc.?
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The amount of mineral that can be profitably
mined at present is
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What is reserve?