ESC 1000 1^st Quarter Term Vocabulary Lists

Spring 2012 Term (List Reduced to 125 terms) Quarter Term Exam Feb 13,14, 2012

Chapter 1 Vocabulary Word List (25 words)

Abyssal plain	Environment	Nonrenewable resource
Asthenosphere	Geological time scale	Oceanic ridge
Astronomy	Geology	Oceanography
Atmosphere	Geosphere	Open system
Biosphere	Hydrosphere	Outer core
Closed system	Hypothesis	Paradigm
Continental margin	Inner core	Physical environment
Continental shelf	Interface	Plate
Continental Slope	Lithosphere	Plate tectonics
Core	Lower mantle	Positive feedback mechanism
Crust	Mantle	Renewable resource
Deep Ocean Basin	Meteorology	Seamount
Deep Ocean Trench	Model	Shield
Earth Science	Nebular theory	Stable platform
Earth system science	Negative feedback	System
Continental rise	Lithospheric plate	Theory

Highlighted words are from the 11^th edition.

Words in Red Text are additional words which are in the key term list in the 13^th edition but were not on the key term list of the 11^th edition

Chapter 2: Minerals: Building Blocks of Rocks Word List (25)

Atom	Ionic bond	Principal shell
Atomic Number	Isotope	Proton
Carbonates	Luster	Quartz
Cleavage	Mass number	Radioactive decay
Color	Metallic Bond	Renewable resources
Chemical bond	Mineral	Reserve
Chemical Compound	Mineral resource	Rock
Covalent bond	Mineralogy	Rock-forming minerals
Crystal shape	Mohs scale	Silicate
Density	Neutron	Silicon-oxygen tetrahedron
Electron	Nonrenewable resources	Specific gravity
Energy levels	Nonsilicates	Streak
Element	Nucleus	Tenacity
Feldspar	Octet Rule	Translucent
Fracture	Opaque	Transparent
Habit	Ore	Valence electrons
Hardness	Ore deposit
Ion	Periodic table

Chapter 3 Rocks: Minerals of the Solid Earth Word List

(25 Words)

Andesitic composition	Fossils	Metamorphism
Basaltic composition	Foliation/Foliated texture	Nonfoliated texture
Bowen’s reaction series	Glassy texture	Pegmatite
Chemical sedimentary rock	Granitic composition	Porphyritic texture
Coarse-grained texture	Hydrothermal solution	Regional metamorphism
Contact metamorphism	Igneous rock	Rock cycle
Crystallization	Intermediate composition	Sediment
Crystal settling	Intrusive rock	Sedimentary rock
Detrital sedimentary rock	Lava	Strata
Disseminated deposit	Lithification	Texture
Evaporate/Evaporate deposit	Mafic	Thermal metamorphism
Extrusive	Magma	Ultramafic composition
Felsic	Magmatic differentiation	Vein deposit
Fine-grained texture	Metamorphic rock	Vesicular texture

Chapter 4: Weathering, Soil, and Mass Wasting Word List (20)

Angle of repose	Frost wedging	Sheeting
Chemical weathering	Horizon	Slide
Creep	Internal processes	Slump
Debris flow	Lahar	Soil
Differential weathering	Leaching	Soil profile
Earth flow	Mass wasting	Soil Taxonomy
Eluviation	Mechanical weathering	Soil texture
Erosion	Parent material	Solifluction
Exfoliation dome	Permafrost	Solum
External processes	Regolith	Spheroidal weathering
Fall	Rockslide	Talus slope or Talus
Flow	Secondary enrichment	Weathering
		Mudflow

Chapter 5: Running Water and Groundwater

Alluvial Fan	Drainage Basin	Radial Pattern
Alluvium	Drawdown	Rectangular Pattern
Aquifer	Erosion	Runoff
Aquitard	Evapotranspiration	Saltation
Artesian Well	Flood	Settling velocity
Artificial Levee	Flood Control Dams	Sinkhole
Backswamp	Floodplain	Sorting
Bar	Geysers	Spring
Base level	Gradient	Stalactite
Bed load	Groundwater	Stalagmite
Braided Stream	Hot spring	Stream Valley
Capacity	Hydrologic Cycle	Suspended Load
Cavern	Incised Meander	Transpiration
Competence	Infiltration	Trellis Pattern
Cone of Depression	Infiltration Capacity	Turbulent Flow
Cut bank	Karst topography	Unsaturated zone
Cutoff	Laminar Flow	Water Table
Delta	Meander	Wells
Dendritic Pattern	Natural Levee	Yazoo Tributary
Discharge	Oxbow lake	Zone of Aeration
Dissolved load	Permeability	Zone of Saturation
Distributary	Point bar
Divide		Longitudinal profile

(30 Words)