Space
It's a small rocky body that orbits the sun
What is an asteroid?
This is a fracture between two blocks of rocks that allow the rocks to move relative to one another.
What is a fault?
Another name for a tropical cyclone
What is a hurricane, typhoon or cyclone?
This creates the energy on the sun
What is nuclear fusion or turning hydrogen into helium?
This is caused by rocks moving along faults
What is an earthquake?
A storm cell is
What is the smallest unit of a storm-producing unit?
List the planets in order from the sun
The scale used to measure earthquakes and it has a certain type of scale.
The type of units used most for scientific research and calculations
What is metric or metric system?
Articulate the difference between weather and climate
What is climate is the average conditions in an area while weather is what is happening at a given time?
This object is spaces stabilizes the axial tilt of the earth.
What is the moon?
Hot spots don't move, but _____ _____ can. This results in multiple volcanoes forming, making _____ volcanic islands.
What are oceanic plates and multiple?
What are crust, mantel, outer core and inner core?
These clouds indicate rain is on the way
What is nimbostratus?
These are 3 measurements used in space.
What are AU, light years, magnitude, parsec
This is what makes tectonic plates move.
Convection Currents
The worldview that most of the crust's features are the result of large-scale catastrophes such as flood, volcanic eruptions, etc.
Winds near the surface of earth do not blow straight generally because of this effect.
What is the Coriolis effect?