Key Vocabulary Terms

Unit 1 Solar System Unit 2 Earth & Moon Unit 3 Climate & Unit 4 Water on Unit 5 Dynamic Unit 6 Rocks & Unit 7 Weathering, Unit 8 Energy
Weather Earth Earth Minerals Erosion & Soil Conservation
Heliocentric Revolution
Atmosphere Water Cycle Crust Mineral Weathering Renewable
Geocentric Orbit Evaporation Chemical Resources
Troposphere Mantle Inorganic
weathering
Big Bang Theory Axis Condensation Greenhouse
Stratosphere Core Crystalline Physical
gases
Solar System Tilt Precipitation weathering
Mesosphere Inner Core Composition
Nonrenewable
Universe Indirect Transpiration Abrasion
Thermosphere Outer Core Streak Resources
Sunlight Oxidation Acid
Milky Way Runoff
Air Pressure Lithosphere precipitation Global
Direct Sunlight Hardness
Galaxy Infiltration Warming
Greenhouse Asthenosphere Erosion
Climate Luster
Orion Belt Gases Fresh Water Deposition Sustainability
Continental Cleavage Floodplain
Hemisphere Salt Water
Local Group Ozone Layer Drift
Equinox Fracture Marsh Delta
Aquifer
Super Cluster Wind Pangaea Alluvial fan
Solstice Groundwater Rock
Inertia Global Winds Fossils Shoreline Beach
Rotation Continental Shelf Rock Cycle Sandbar
Gravity Land Breeze Density
Waning Continental Slope Erosion Barrier island
Elliptical orbit Land Breeze Convection
Continental Rise Deposition Dune Loess
Waxing Currents
Terrestrial Sea Breeze
Mid-ocean Ridge Weathering Glacier Glacial
Gibbous Sea-floor
Atmosphere Coriolis Effect drift Creep
Seamount Spreading Compaction
Crescent
Planet Air Mass Rockfall
Volcanic Island Theory of Plate Cementation
st
1 Quarter Landslide
Asteroid Continental Tectonics
Ocean Trench mudflow
rd
3 Quarter Igneous
Asteroid belt Maritime Convergent
Surface Zone
Total Eclipse Boundary Sedimentary
Comet Tropical Twilight Zone
Partial Eclipse Divergent Metamorphic
Meteor Polar Deep Ocean Boundary
Umbra Texture
Meteoroid Warm Front Salinity Transform
Penumbra Extrusive/fine-
Cold Front Surface Current Boundary
Meteorite grained
Occluded Front Waves Faults
Coma Intrusive/coars
Tides Seismic Waves e-grained
Tail Stationary
Front Deep Current Earthquakes Foliated
Nucleus
Hurricane Coriolis Effect Richter Scale Non-foliated
Kuiper Belt
Tornado Continental
Oort Cloud Deflection
Thunderstorm
Wave Length
Barometric
Pressure Wave Height

Wave Frequency
Cycle

Anti-cyclone