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Dating History
Weather
Weather Tools
Oceanography
100
The density of an object that has a mass of 20 and a volume of 10.
What is 2
100

When examining layers of sedimentary rock, the youngest rock is always found here

What is the top

100

The layer of the air that surrounds the Earth.

What is the atmosphere?

100
The tool that is used to collect and measure precipitation
What is a rain gauge
100

This drives the surface currents in the oceans.

What is wind

200
The type of variable that is you change in an experiment.
What is the independent variable
200
The type of fossil created when an organism leaves behind an imprint of a part of its body, which later becomes rock
What is a mold
200
The temperature at which the water in the atmosphere begins to condense
What is the dew point
200

The tool that is used to measure wind direction

What is a weather vane 

200
The gently sloping part of the continent that is under shallow water; what you stand on at the beach
What is the continental shelf
300
Zero degrees latitude is known as this
What is the equator
300

The relationship between rock units when one type of rock is cut by another type.

What is cross-cutting relationship

300

The type of weather front that brings storms and cooler temperatures.

What is a cold front

300
The tool that is used to measure atmospheric pressure
What is a barometer
300
A flat stretch of the deep ocean around the margins of the continents. This is typically known as the ocean floor.
What is the abyssal plain
400
The type of variable that is measured in the experiment
What is the dependent variable
400

The type of rock where fossils are found.

What are sedimentary rocks?

400
A type of breeze created when the warm air over land is pushed up by cooler air coming in from the water creating a convection current; this happens during the day.
What is a sea breeze
400

The tool that is used to measure temperature

What is a thermometer

400
The deepest part of the ocean which occurs at a subduction zone
What is a trench
500
Zero degrees longitude is known as this
What is the Prime Merdian
500

This event ended the Mesozoic era by killing the dinosaurs.

What is an asteroid impact

500

The effect that explains how wind direction changes; in the northern hemisphere, the wind appears to bend to the right.

What is the Coriolis effect

500
The tool that helps measure wind speed
What is an anemometer
500
The zone of steeply sloped sea floor leading from the continental shelf towards the ocean bottom.
What is the continental slope
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