Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions 17th Edition - Solutions by Chapter

The angle of the Sun above the horizon.

A bitterly cold air mass that forms over the frozen Arctic Ocean.

A wind blowing down the lee-ward side of a mountain and warming by compression.

The great circle that separates daylight from darkness.

Establishing the equivalence of rocks of similar age in different areas.

The portion of seafloor that lies between the continental margin and the oceanic ridge system. This region comprises almost 30 percent of Earth’s surface.

Mass per unit volume of a substance, usually expressed as grams per cubic centimeter

The name for all the sciences that collectively seek to understand Earth. It includes geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy.

A type of movement common to mass-wasting processes that refers to the free falling of detached individual pieces of any size.

A cliff created by movement along a fault. It represents the exposed surface of the fault prior to modification by weathering and erosion.

The movement of surface water into rock or soil through cracks and pore spaces.

The product of the velocity of an object around a center of rotation (axis), and the distance squared of the object from the axis is constant.

A center of low pressure characterized by cyclonic winds.

The overtaking of one front by another.

The path of a body in revolution around a center of mass.

Warm air gliding up a retreating cold air mass.

Conspicuously large crystals embedded in a matrix of finer-grained crystals.

A local wind blowing from the sea during the afternoon in coastal areas.

The abnormal rise of the sea along a shore as a result of strong winds.

A seaward extension of a valley that was cut on the continental shelf during a time when sea level was lower, or a canyon carved into the outer continental shelf, slope, and rise by turbidity currents.