Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Rocks and Minerals
Oceanography
Meteorology
Astronomy
100
Who came up with the theory of continental drift?
Alfred Wegener
100
What is an earthquake?
The shaking or trembling caused by sudden releases of energy.
100
What is Oceanography?
The study of the Earth's oceans.
100
What is Meteorology?
The study of the Earth's atmosphere.
100
Who created Hubble Law?
Edwin Hubble
200
What is Continental Drift?
The theory that the Earth's continents have moved throughout its history.
200
What percent of earthquakes occur in the Ring of Fire?
80%
200
What causes mid ocean ridges?
Seafloor Spreading
200
What unit is used to measure wind speeds?
Knots
200
What is the Universe?
The Universe is all matter space and time.
300
Who is Harry Hess?
The Geologist that discovered Seafloor Spreading
300
What causes a volcanoe to erupt?
The sudden moving of continental plates.
300
What is the deepest feature on Earth called?
Trench.
300
What is the symbol for Low Pressure?
Blue L
300
What does Hubble Law support?
The Big Bang theory.
400
What is the Lithosphere?
Rigid material made from oceanic crust, continental crust, and upper mantle.
400
How is an Igneous rock formed?
Cooling magma
400
What is the name of the part of the ocean floor that is closest to a continent?
Continental Shelf
400
What is the symbol for a cold front?
Blue triangles
400
What is Astronomy?
The study of the Universe beyond the Earth.
500
What is Asthenosphere?
Slowly flowing "plastic" rock underlying the Lithosphere. Provides movement to the plates.
500
What is Sedimentary Rock?
Rocks formed by the compaction and combination of sediments.
500
What is the name of an under water volcanoe?
Sea Mount
500
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
Troposphere, Statosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere.
500
What is The Big Bang Theory?
The theory that the Universe was once atom sized, then it exploded and the entire Universe expanded in all directions.
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