Plate Tectonics I
Plate Tectonics II
Hydrosphere
Atmosphere
Astronomy
100
Draw 3 convection cells side by side
100
What is the name of the process where parts of the crust sink back into the mantle?
Subduction
100
What causes the tides?
Moon
100
Why is it important to have ozone in the stratosphere?
Blocks out harmful UV radiation
100
What do we call the group of the last four planets in our solar system? (Answer is NOT outer planets)
Gas giants
200
What 2 things did scientists use to find the plate boundaries?
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
200
What forms on the crust above a mantle plume?
Hotspot Volcano
200
What happens to the freezing point of water when you add salt?
Decreases
200
List the 3 steps for heating up the atmosphere.
Radiation, conduction, convection
200
Give an example of the doppler effect.
Sound pitch or light shift
300
List at least two things that are producing heat in the core.
Radiation, pressure, heat leftover from formation
300
Folded mountains are evidence for which theory?
Continental Drift
300
What happens to the amount of oxygen water can hold when the temperature increases?
Decreases
300
List the 3 different global wind belts and what direction they come from.
Tradewinds (East), Westerlies (West), Polar Easterlies (East)
300
What were the two most common elements formed during the big bang?
Hydrogen and Helium
400
What geologic formation would be created at an ocean-ocean subduction boundary? (must be exact)
Island Arc Volcanoes
400
What type of plate boundary is responsible for Seafloor Spreading?
Divergent
400
Which of water’s properties allows it to absorb pollutants and become easily contaminated?
Adhesion
400
List 3 characteristics of a low pressure system.
Warm, rising, moist
400
List one of the evidences that the big bang happened.
Cosmic background microwave radiation or expansion of universe (red shift)
500
List all 5 of the evidences that Wegener used for the Theory of Continental Drift.
Coal, glacial scars, fossils, folded mountains, the shape of continents
500
List the layers of the earth from the inside to the outside. (Include the three layers that make up the mantle)
Inner Core, Outer Core, Mesosphere, Asthenosphere, Lithosphere, Crust
500
List all 6 reservoirs of water from largest to smallest.
Oceans, Glaciers and Ice Caps, Groundwater, Lakes and Rivers, Atmosphere, Biosphere
500
List the 4 layers of the atmosphere from bottom to top.
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere
500
What is the last element a large star can make in nuclear fusion before going supernova?
Iron [Fe]