The theory that states the universe is rapidly expanding from a single dense hot point.
What is the big bang theory?
Order of the layers of the earth.
What is Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core?
The 3 plate boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform?
What are mountains?
The 3 types of rocks.
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
The color of an old, cold star.
What is red?
Uppermost solid region made up of the crust and upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
Name of the super continent 200 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
Location of the youngest rock on the oceanic crust.
Where is mid ocean ridge?
The difference of intrusive and extrusive igneous rock.
What is intrusive is formed in the earth and extrusive is formed on the surface?
The cause of high and low tides.
What is the gravitation pull of the sun and the moon?
Type of waves that can travel through every layer of the earth.
What are P waves?
Process that creates new ocean floor.
What is sea floor spreading?
Region where magma weakens crust increases volcanic activity.
Where is a hot spot?
Where heat comes from to make metamorphic rocks.
Where is the center of the earth?
The difference in blue shift and red shift.
What is blue shift is shorter wavelength moving toward us and red shift is longer wavelength move away from us?
The function and application of seismographs.
What is to detect earthquakes and their strength, and predict future earthquakes?
An area of high volcanic and seismic activity.
Where is the ring of fire?
Land form created by the collision of an oceanic and continental plate.
What is a subduction zone and trench?
The steps to make sedimentary rocks.
What is weathering, erosion, compaction, cementation?
The moon phase that cause the spring and neap tides.
What are full and new (spring) and 1st and 3rd quarter (neap)?
Cycling of heat that causes plate movement.
What are convection currents?
How natural resources are distributed around the earth.
What is unevenly located at subduction zone plate boundaries?
What are 1. identical rock formations on separate continents, 2. identical fossil evidence on separate continent, 3. continents fit like a puzzle?
The most abundant intrusive igneous rock in the continental crust.
What is granite?