Intro to ES
These scientists study weather patterns
What is a meteorologist?
The relief of a park whose highest point is 2000km and lowest point is 800km.
What is 1200km?
This is the least useful property when identifying a mineral.
What is color?
This type of plate boundary doesn't create or destroy crust.
What is a transform fault?
Saturated ground begins behaving like a liquid during and earthquake.
What is liquefaction?
The correct order of the layers of the Earth from the center outward.
What is Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust?
On a contour map, these indicate steep slopes.
What are closely spaced contour lines?
Property of a mineral found by scratching it with a fingernail, penny, nail, or glass.
What is hardness?
The name of the plate where USA is located.
What is the North American Plate?
Point underground where an earthquake originates.
What is the focus?
This is the direction that most galaxies are moving in relation to the Earth.
What is away?
When writing coordinates for a world location, this type of coordinate is listed first.
What is latitude?
These are the three ways that minerals can form.
What is magma cooling, evaporation, and precipitation?
The driving force behind plate movement.
What are convection cells?
The only wave type that can travel through liquids.
What are P-waves?
This is composed of a liquid Iron-nickel alloy.
What is the outer core?
On a topographic map, Vs in the contour lines provide this information about a river. Be specific!
What is the direction the river flows toward the opening of the V?
Silicates are the most common mineral group on Earth and are composed of these two elements.
What are silicon and oxygen?
Pieces of evidence Wegener had to support his Theory of Continental Drift. Name at least 2.
What are fit of continents, fossils, rocks, and paleoclimate data?
Seismologists use 3 seismograph locations to find this.
What is the epicenter?
The hypothesis that explains how our solar system formed from a cloud of rotating gasses.
What is the Nebular Hypothesis?
Lines that run vertically, are labelled E or W, and are listed second when giving coordinates of a location.
What are longitude lines?
This was the hardest mineral we identified in our mineral lab.
What is corundum?
Tracking the Hawaiian Island chain provides us with these two pieces of data about the Pacific Plate's motion.
What is speed and direction?
The name for when rock quickly returns to its original, undeformed shape.
What is elastic rebound?