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🏝️Earth Science
Key Terms

298 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Earth Science exam

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A

A Horizon
Abyssal plain
Adiabatic cooling
Alfred Wegener
Angle of repose
Annular solar eclipse
Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Antecedent moisture conditions
Apogean Spring Tides
Archean Eon
Arctic Ocean
Argon-argon dating
Arête
Ash cloud
Asteroid belt
Atlantic Continental Rise
Atlantic Ocean

B

B Horizon
Banded Iron Formations (BIFs)
Barometric Pressure
Basal Drag
Beach nourishment
Bed load
Benthic invertebrates
Benthic organisms
Benthic zone
Bernoulli's Principle
Big bang theory
Biodiversity hotspots
Biological weathering
Biomass energy
Black hole
Blue economy
Body fossil
Bogs
Bowen's Reaction Series
Braided rivers

C

Caldera
Cambrian Explosion
Cambrian Period
Carbon capture
Carbon dating
Carbon-14
Climate change adaptation
Climate disruption
Climate feedback
Climate Oscillation
Climate resilience
Climate simulation models
Climate zone
Coalification
Coastal management
Coastal topography
Coastal Wetlands
Cold desert
Cold seeps
Continental glacier
Continental polar
Continental shelf
Continental tropical
Convergent boundary
Coral reef bleaching
Coriolis effect
Coriolis Force
Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction
Cross-cutting relationships
Cryogenian Period
Crystal Form
CTD Casts
Current meters

D

Dark energy
Debris flow
Debris slide
Deep ocean currents
Deep-sea trench