EESA06H3 Midterm: EESA06 Terms to Remember (midterm)
11 Jan 2016
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Differentiation separation of different ingredients from an objective procedures. Accretion the process of building large bodies of matter through collisions and gravitational attraction. Asthenosphere a region of the earth"s outer shell beneath the lithosphere. The asthenosphere is of indeterminate thickness and behaves plastically. Core the central zone of the earth. Cross-section a representation of a portion of the earth in a. Crust the outer layer of rock, forming a thin skin over the vertical plane. Earth system a small part of the larger solar system that has its own component parts, or subsystems: the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the biosphere, and the geosphere. Exploration geologist geoscientists who work for exploration companies looking for gold, silver, or diamonds. Geology the scientific study of planet earth. Geomatician a geoscientist who collects, organizes, analyzes and creates images from spatial and geographic data available in digital form.
