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Vocabulary for
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 Spring 2004

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Chapter 1:

Chapter 2:

Chapter  3

Latitude
Longitude
Map Scale
Prime Meridian
Sextant

Mercali Projection
Greenwich Mean Time
Int'l Date Line
Analemma
GPS

Inorganic
Element
Moh's Hardness Scale
Magma
Lava

Density
Silicates
Mafic
Felsic
Evaporite
Bowen's Reaction Series

Plutonic
Porphyry
Clastic
Breccia
Lithify

Intrusive
Exstrusive
Foliation
Basalt
Granite

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Sky & Telescope

Chapter 4:

Chapter 9:

Chapter 10:

Continental Drift
Pangaea
Asthenosphere
Mantle
Curie Point 
IGY 

Transform Fault
Subduction Zone
Plate Tectonics
Lithosphere
Paleomagnetism

Fossil
Paleontology
Cast
mold
Relative Age
Absolute Age
Unconformity

Law of Superposition
Index Fossil
Half Life
Era
Period
Epoch
Geologic Time Scale

Therm
BTU
Joule
Watt
Geothermal
Hydrocarbons


Nuclear Fusion
Nuclear Fission
Work 
Power
Biomass Fuel

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Chapter 15:

Chapter 16:

Chapter 17:
Syzygy
Chlorofluorocarbon
Acid Rain
Ozone
Troposphere
Stratosphere		 Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Ionosphere
Isobar
Jet Stream

Insolation
Albedo
Greenhouse Effect
Heat
Isotherm
Coriolis Effect

 Jet Stream
Dew Point
Relative Humidity
Psychrometer
Anemometer
Precipitation

Air Mass
Occluded Front
El Nino
Isobar
Lightning

Front
Cyclone
Anticyclone
Continental Polar
Butterfly Effect


 

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Precession
Solstice
Equinox
Latitude
Rotation
Revolution
Umbra
Penumbra
Ecliptic

Solar Eclipse
Lunar Eclipse
Geosynchronous Orbit 
Maria
Gibbous Phase
Waxing
Waning
Precession
Obliquity

Geocentric
Heliocentric
Ellipse
Epicycle
Deferent
Stellar Parallax
Sun Spot

 

 

Corona
Photosphere
Chromosphere
Prominence
Nuclear Fusion
Asteroid
Meteor



E-M Radiation
Spectrum
Spectrograph
Light-Year
Parallax
Parsec
H-R Diagram
Main Sequence

 

Apparent-Magnitude
Quasar
Neutron-Star
White-Dwarf
Spiral-Galaxy
Binary Star 
Big Bang