Plate Tectonics
Eartquakes, Volcanoes, Rocks, and Minerals
Oceanography
Meteorology
Astronomy
100
These are the three plate boundaries.
What is Divergent, Convergent, and Transform boundaries?
100
how do you find the center of an earthquake
What is triangulation
100
This is the study of Eaths oceans and ocean life.
What is Oceanography
100
what does Pc mean
What is polar continental
100
What does the Earth Orbit around?
What is the SUN
200
The name of the Super Contitnent.
What is Pangea?
200
how do they measure the earthquakes strengths?
What is the mercalli scale?
200
This is the acronym for navagating and ranging the ocean floor
What is SONAR
200
the scale that measures hurricanes intensity
What is the saffir-simpson scale
200
What is the Largest planet?
What is Jupiter?
300
He is the guy that realized the continents fit together like a puzzle.
Who is Alfred Wegener
300
this is the theory that says that the plates straighten afte they move in and earthquake
What is elastic rebound theory
300
this is the connected deep ocean current that circles the entire planet.
What is Deep Ocean Current
300
this brings rain, flooding, and high winds
What is a hurricane
300
The reason we only see one side of the moon?
What is its orbit is the same length as its day?
400
Which ocean is shrinking and what ocean is growing?
What is the Pacific Ocean is shrinking and the Atlantic Ocean is growing.
400
this is a large wave sometimes caused by an earthquake
What is a tsunami
400
This is a raised wedge of sediment formed at the base of the continental slope.
What is Continental Rise
400
the scale that they rate tornadoes on
What is the enhanced fujita scale
400
This cycle repeats itselft every 11 years on the sun.
What is the sunspot cycle?
500
this tells how long the magnetic polarity lasted.
What is Magnetic reversals found on ocean floor?
500
how big is volcanic dust
What is <2mm
500
This is the average salinity of the ocean.
What is 35 ppt (parts per thousand)
500
this can bring rain, hail, thunder, lightning, and high winds
What is a thunderstorm
500
This is the reason Pluto is no longer a planet.
What is it doesn't dominate its own orbit?
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