Rocks and Minerals
The scale used to measure and compare mineral hardness
What is the Mohs Hardness Scale?
The Earth's crust is broken up into large moving pieces called ______________________
What are tectonic plates
The part of the water cycle where trees release water vapor back into the atmosphere through their leaves
What is transpiration?
What is 71%?
The lowest layer of the atmosphere that contains the weather
What is the troposphere?
The type of rock formed from immense pressure and heat deep within the Earth
What are metamorphic rocks?
The part of the Earth's structure that is mostly solid, situated between the crust and the core
What is the mantle?
The cause of acid rain
What is the burning of fossil fuels?
These are caused by the Moon's gravitational influence on ocean waters
What are tides?
This type of pressure system brings in fair, calm and clear weather
What are high pressure systems?
The softest mineral on Earth, often used in baby powder
What is talc?
The semi-fluid layer in the upper mantle where the lithosphere rests
What is the asthenosphere?
The percentage of water that is freshwater on Earth
Swimming parallel to the shoreline is the best way to break out of a ________________
The type of cloud that is also known as "thunderheads"
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
A type of sedimentary rock that makes up coral reefs
What is limestone
The type of fault where blocks of rock shift horizontally, sliding past one another
What is a strike-slip fault?
An underground resource of permeable rock, gravel, or sand that contains fresh groundwater
What is an aquifer?
A nearshore environment found in cold waters and home to vast amounts of diverse life
What is a kelp forest?
What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale
What is naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, definite chemical composition, and orderly arrangement of atoms (crystal structure)?
The type of earthquake waves that do most of the damage
What are S waves?
What harnesses the kinetic and potential energy of flowing water to generate massive amounts of renewable electricity.
What is a hydroelectric dam?
The process where surface water in the ocean sinks into deeper layers, caused by wind-driven changes or increases in water density
What is downwelling?
The minimum required wind speed for a tropical storm to be classified as a hurricane
What is 74 mph?