Earth/Environmental Science

largest and slowest of the Earths cycles, consisting of
geologic, physical, and chemical processes that form and modify rocks and soil in the earth's
crust over millions of years

• Carbon Cycle

• Nitrogen Cycle

• Rock Cycle

• Water Cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away (i.e. weathering, glaciation)

• Frost Wedging

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Sediment

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.

• Mesosphere

• Crust

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

When two plates are moving away from each other creating a space between them (ridge)

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• subduction zone

• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A broad shaped volcano built from repeated non-explosive eruptions

• hot spot

• cinder cone volcano

• composite volcano

• shield volcano

The point, within the earth, where an earthquake occurs

• epicenter

• focus

• foreshock

• fault

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

natural resources that cannot be replaced in our lifetime. Ex: coal, oil (petroleum), natural gas, and metals such as Uranium to power nuclear energy.

• renewable resource

• sustainability

• non-renewable resource

• carbon footprint

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

the heating of Earth’s surface and atmosphere by solar radiation that is absorbed and emitted by the atmosphere, mainly water vapor and carbon dioxide

• renewable resource

• climate change

• natural resource

• greenhouse effect

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

This type of growth, represented with an S curve, is growth with limiting factors that bring the population near carrying capacity

• carrying capacity

• logistic growth

• exponential growth

• fossil fuels

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

water from precipitation that flows over the surface of the land

• condensation

• precipitation

• transpiration

• Runoff

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4