Loose Leaf for Research Methods in Psychology with Connect Access Card 10th Edition Solutions

Impermeable beds that hinder or prevent groundwater movement.

See Desert.

A feldspar-rich sandstone.

The equinox that occurs on September 21–23 in the Northern Hemisphere and on March 21–22 in the Southern Hemisphere.

A low, elongate ridge of sand that parallels the coast.

One of three basic cloud forms; also one of the three high cloud types. They are thin, delicate ice-crystal clouds often appearing as veil-like patches or thin, wispy fibers.

A volcano composed of both lava flows and pyroclastic material.

A permanent stream that traverses a desert and has its source in well-watered areas outside the desert.

A steep-sided inlet of the sea formed when a glacial trough was partially submerged.

The absorption of ultraviolet light, which is reemitted as visible light.

Fossil organisms that succeed one another in a definite and determinable order, and any time period can be recognized by its fossil content.

Depressions that are the result of collisions with bodies such as asteroids and comets.

Igneous rock that formed below Earth’s surface.

The process of generating more than one rock type from a single magma.

The 2,900-kilometer- (1,800-mile-) thick layer of Earth located below the crust.

A system of streams running in all directions away from a central elevated structure, such as a volcano.

Any of a system of bright elongated streaks, sometimes associated with a crater on the Moon.

Any one of numerous minerals that have the oxygen and silicon tetrahedron as their basic structure.

The period of revolution of the Moon with respect to the Sun, or its cycle of phases.

Red giants that overshoot equilibrium, then alternately expand and contract.