Vocabulary: Mauna Kea

_____ is a cloud of water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the Earth’s surface which is less dense than fog.

• Glaciation

• Mist

• Solar radiation

• Elevation

An _____ is the reversal of the usual order, such as the decrease of air temperature as you gain altitude or of water temperature as you gain depth.

• elevation

• association

• inversion

• accumulation

The two were _____ buddies, sworn to be friends for life.

• bosom

• sledding

• associates

• frenemy

A volcano with steep sides that form a cone is called a stratovolcano, while one with gentle slopes of less than 10% is called _____ volcano.

• dome

• composite

• cinder

• shield

People think long-term means months or years or generations at most, but the Earth is more properly viewed in a _____.

• reservoir of water

• lava pool of Kilauea

• geologic time frame

• Pleistocene Makanaka

A steep-sided buildup of molten lava that has cooled is a _____.

• bosom

• reservoir

• cinder cone

• charcoal

The accumulation of ice over geologic periods of time results in _____

• glaciation

• reservoir

• mist

• solar radiation

Temperatures are cooler as you reach a higher _____ above sea level.

• shield volcano

• trade wind

• latitude

• elevation

Sunlight is _____, most of which is invisible to the human eye.

• solar radiation

• molten state

• reservoir

• inversion

_____ of oil and water are both prospected for and found underground in porous layers of rock.

• Associations

• Deposits

• Reservoirs

• Trade winds