U-shaped valley

Heat and/or Pressure

Density differences

Amount of space

Compaction & cementation

Arid

Empty space in soil

P/Ep ratio

Melting and solidification

Upward movement of water in soil

Best absorber of radiation

Bending of waves

Distance from crest to crest

Boundary

Most common soil type in NY

Average kinetic energy of atoms or molecules

Oldest on bottom - Youngest on top

Made of fragmental particles

One plate dives under another

Moon comes between the Earth and the Sun

Boundary between 2 different air masses

Process that powers stars

Warm, moist air mass

Physical properties of a mineral

Energy of position

Solid outer shell of the earth

An interpretation of an observation

Grooves in bedrock

V-shaped valley

Deflection of fluids due to Earth's rotation

Folliated

All molecular motion stops

Cold, dry air mass

Best reflector

Brightness of a star compared to brightness of the sun when viewed from the same distance.

Mineral breaks forming flat surfaces

Carbon dioxide and water vapor

Connects all points of equal temperature

Intergrown crystals

Shape of the Earth

Point on surface above the focus

Area below the water table

Solid to vapor w/o going through a liquid phase

What we get from the sun

Always involves use of the senses

Ability of water to pass through rock or soil

Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon

Time of day when the Sun is highest in the sky

Smallest particles carried in suspension in a stream

Predominant form of physical weathering in NYS

Glacier

Metamorphic

Convection

Volume

Sedimentary

Dry (desert)

Porosity

Climate

Igneous

Capillarity

Dark & rough

Refraction

Wavelength

Interface

Transported

Temperature

Law of Superposition

Clastic

Subduction

Solar eclipse

Front

Fusion

Maritime tropical (mT)

Internal arrangement of atoms

Potential energy

Crust (Lithosphere)

Inference

Glacier

River or stream

Coriolis effect

Metamorphic

Absolute zero

Contintal polar (cP) or Continental arctic (cA)

Smooth, light colored

Luminosity

Cleavage

Greenhouse gases

Isotherm

Probably igneous (possibly metamorphic)

Oblate spheroid

Epicenter

Zone of saturation

Sublimation

Short wave visible light

Observation

Permeability

Lunar eclipse

Solar noon

Colloids

Frost action (ice wedging)