Earth Science Spring Final

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Across
  1. 2. Has the second largest particle size for soil type.
  2. 3. The transfer of heat through matter by molecular energy.
  3. 5. The motion that that describes the westward movement of the planets.
  4. 6. The transfer of heat by the movement of mass or substance.
  5. 10. When matter collides in space and forms an irregular shape.
  6. 14. Is the source of all clouds and precipitation, but also absorbs heat that is given off by earth.
  7. 16. The soil that optimizes agriculture production.
  8. 17. Means "Jupiter-like"
  9. 18. The layer of the atmosphere that protects us from meteor's that are in the same path as earth.
  10. 19. A severe tropical storm that is among the powerful in the world.
  11. 20. An earth-centered universe.
Down
  1. 1. Soil is considered this, because it doesn't change.
  2. 3. One of the three reactants of the photosynthesis process. ______ + H2O + (light)----> O2 + Glucose
  3. 4. He concluded that earth was a planet.
  4. 7. He formalized and then tested the law of universal gravitation.
  5. 8. The soil texture of 31% Sand, 15% Silt, 54% Clay
  6. 9. An air mass that forms over a body of water.
  7. 11. The temperature within this layer of the atmosphere will increase with temperature because of the ozone.
  8. 12. The conversion of a gas directly into solid, without ever going through the liquid stage.
  9. 13. The dark moist layer found in topsoil that is made of dead and decaying matter.
  10. 15. This is when the temperature increases instead of decreases within the troposphere, with height.
  11. 21. Based off of years of observations that describe a place or region.