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A graph relating the temperature and brightness of stars
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HR diagram
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the true brightness of an object
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Luminosity
63 questions
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A graph relating the temperature and brightness of stars
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the true brightness of an object
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A large cloud of dust and gas in space
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A collection of stars, dust, and gas bound together by gravity
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All of space and everything in it
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the range of wavelengths or frequencies over which electromagnetic radiation extends.
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The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave
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top of wave
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Lowest point of a wave
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The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time
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When the Earth moon and sun are lined up. Creates the highest high tides and lowest low tides.
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When the Earth moon and sun make a 90 degree angle. Very little change in high and low tide tide.
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the pattern of phases of the moon
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lighting or light
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getting bigger
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getting smaller
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the curved sickle shape of the waxing or waning moon.
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More than half but less than fully illuminated
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The spinning of Earth on its axis. causes day and night
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The movement of an object around another object.
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An imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and the North and South poles, about which Earth rotates
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to lean, incline, slope, or slant. Earth's is 23.5 degrees
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half of the earth
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a current caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid
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A mass of sinking cool air that usually bring fair weather.
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A mass of rising warm air that usually bring wet, stormy weather.
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A severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more than 120 km/h spiral in toward the intensely low-pressure storm center
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the edge of a cold air mass (produces thunderstorms heavy rain or snow
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a front where warm air moves over cold air and brings drizzly rain and warmer weather
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movement of air from land to sea at night, created when cooler, denser air from the land forces up warmer air over the sea
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the shape of the land
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height above sea level
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lines that connect points of equal elevation
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the difference in elevation from one contour line to the next
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The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface.
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Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are carried away (i.e. weathering, glaciation)
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Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.
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A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
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The region where oceanic plates sink down into the asthenosphere.
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A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
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A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
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A deep valley that forms where two plates move apart
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The name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents
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Sections of the Earth's crust that move due to convection currents.
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thinner, more dense, younger crust making ocean floor
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thicker part of the earth's crust that forms the large landmasses. It is generally older than oceanic crust.
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created by plate tectonics and weathering; include mountains, trenches, volcanoes, ocean ridges and rift zones
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An environmental change that happens quickly but does not last a long time.
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Environmental change that occurs slowly over time and affects organisms over generations.
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a man-made, underwater structure, typically built for the purpose of promoting marine life in areas of generally featureless bottom.
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Describes living factors in the environment.
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physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
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the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
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The largest population that an area can support
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the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
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The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained
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organisms that make their own food—photosynthetic life.
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an organism that is incapable of photosynthesis and must obtain its energy by consuming other organisms
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An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
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the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
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Collected body of data from observations and experiments
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the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way.
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state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.