In terminal, running top, info extends past the view of the window I assume this occurs in more terminal functions than just top. Is there a way to view the information without resizing the console window? I currently have my console window set to open at 80x24, which is far too short in both columns and rows to display all the information.
You can select the columns you want to display with -stats:

top -stats pid,cpu,command


See man top for a full list of available columns (listed under -o), the most interesting ones probably are


pid: Process ID
command: The name of the command
cpu: CPU usage
time: Execution time
vsize: Total memory size
state: Process state
uid: User ID (or user for user name)